[rightbyte]

> "you cannot unbreak the broken glass"

I really don't like this analogy. You can weld glass back together. Or melt the pieces down and reforge it.

[jacquesm]

Replace 'glass' with 'vase'.

Analogies are always breaking down but break down faster if people don't just try to see them as analogies rather than the thing itself, the idea was to convey a point and you indicated that you got it perfectly well.