I work so hard to torture my metaphors with precision, and I’m honored when anyone notices. Thank you.

An elf is trying to deliver a very important warning, but is building up the preface to that warning so much, trying to provide a proper analogy for just how important the warning is, that he never actually gets to the point.

Honestly, watching the upvotes and downvotes chase each other on this one is thrilling.

Exactly! You get it.

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