[Newspoetry] How about another game, boy?

[John]

As quiet as a lamb: 700 (Amazingly, not all Shakespeare!)
As quiet as a clam: 17 (Aren't clams quieter than lambs?)
As quiet as a ram: 1
As noisy as a lamb: 0
As noisy as a clam: 1

Out Out Damn Spot: 4700 (This is proof that cliches originating from
"Macbeth" are more popular than cliches originating from "King John")
Out Out Darn Spot: 53  (We better not offend anyone with the word 'damn')
Out Out Spot: 17 (is this editing better, or worse?)
Spot out damn: 5 (Dyslexics of the world, Untie!)

Dyslexics of the world, Untie!: 16,600
Dyslexics of the world, Unite!: 18  (There's always a few who screw up
the joke, or maybe they're dyslexic?)
Workers of the World, Unite!: 41,000
Workers of the World, Untie! 43 (hmmmm...)

Beating a dead horse: 285,000
Beating a dead dog: 2,790
Beating a dead cat: 32
Beating a dead mouse: 5
Beating a dead moose: 5
Beating a dead dinosaur: 2
Beating a dead cliche: 3
Beating a deadbeat: 7

As Dead as a doornail: 12,800
As Dead as a doormat: 4
As Dead as Jim Morrison: 2
As Dead as a Zombie: 11
He's dead, Jim: 49,000
He's dead, Dave: 66  (Star Trek is much more popular than Red Dwarf)

*30*
-- 
John Newmark
gavroche at gmail.com