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UTUSN

(70,683 posts)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:59 AM Aug 2012

Class, today's figure of speech: SIMILE. "(Sex) sprouted like mushrooms in a moist cow patch"

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http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/survivor_wife_lives_to_tell_yXRHImMx9Rzros8XDgMpRP#ixzz22rt8vzLk

[font size=5]‘Survivor’ wife lives to tell [/font]

An upcoming book by Dianne Burnett, ex of “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett, says there was so much sex on the show’s set, it should’ve been called “Camp Lust” or “Infidelity Isle.”

“Affairs among crew members were sprouting like mushrooms in a moist cow patch,” she writes in “The Road to Reality.” She adds, “The unwritten motto was: ‘What plays on the island, stays on the island.’ ” ....

She says that after the third “Survivor” season in Africa, Mark told her he wasn’t returning home but, “going to ‘hike a mountain with the guys’ . . . I later heard that the only mountain Mark had gone to climb was Mount Twenty-Something: apparently, he’d flown in a young woman . . . and had taken her on a safari.”

Burnett, now wed to actress Roma Downey, declined to comment. But he’s adamantly denied Dianne’s involvement with “Survivor,” telling the Hollywood Reporter, “If she did so much, so long ago, where are all her new shows?” ....

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Class, today's figure of speech: SIMILE. "(Sex) sprouted like mushrooms in a moist cow patch" (Original Post) UTUSN Aug 2012 OP
How about this.... AnneD Aug 2012 #1

AnneD

(15,774 posts)
1. How about this....
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 10:36 AM
Aug 2012

Political rhetoric sprouted like mushrooms in a moist cow patch.

Love the imagery.

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