Alliterative assertions of incompetence

[fivemack]

On a local IRC channel, I pointed out 'I know less of iOS development than a camel does of canoeing'; I'd previously used 'than a walrus does of wind-surfing'.

Alliterative expressions of animal incompetence are clearly fun to produce:

rejs+fivemack	than a badger does of baseball (originally 'basketball' but I think the trochee sounds better)
mdw	than a hamster does of hang-gliding
rjk	than crocodiles do of cross-stitch
senji	than an egret does of epistemology

The important things are assonance and a strong mental image ...

Go ahead! The comments are open!

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Than a bilby does of bingo.

(And now I'm going home, but I look forward to seeing what else is here in the morning!)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

And now I have popped back to say 'than a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker does of yachting'. Thank you.

Also 'than an okapi does of origami'.

And 'than a sealion does of sudoku'.

OK, definitely stopping.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Clearly I know less about what a trochee is than a hedgehog does of house painting...

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I'm using 'trochee' to mean a two-syllable word with the stress on the first syllable 'DAA-dum', though I think the term actually just refers to the stress pattern.

[htfb.livejournal.com]

Baseball is a spondee, surely. Rounders is a trochee.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Than a gazelle does of gamelon

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Than a tiger does of tidying.

[seawasp]

... than a Dalek does of decorum.

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

a vampire of vegeterianism? :)

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

... than a platypus does of poohsticks.

The one I used yesterday, to a Dutchman: "My usage of Macs is like your ability to read German: I can do it a bit, but something might go horribly wrong at any moment."

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

than a whale does of whist.

[ellarien]

Than a tadpole does of tatting.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Than a stoat does of stitching.
Than a weasel does of whistling.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

than a kiwi does of cross-stitch