[barneycarroll]

Other times, people introduce seemingly impertinent colour into an analogy in order to engage the target audience's imagination and reasoning better. They may even tailor the duration of their analogy in order to match that of other analogies which have previously hit home with the intended target. And the target may trust this, and potentially end up believing a great many falsehoods, because of a lack of critical reasoning in the contextualisation and import of the analogy.

[braveo]

If an analogy were perfect it would cease to be an analogy and would instead be the thing being discussed.

That's just the nature of an analogy, but that doesn't make it useless or fair to attack the speaker for using an analogy.

[amingilani]

I'd like to remind everyone that this thread started with angry funny quotes from Linus.

And now we're debating on what does and doesn't qualify as an analogy.