Today I read Social Media Trader's article How to commit social media suicide. It included the following tidbit in a section about avoid making the same mistakes again and again when targeting social media for web traffic.

When I got my girlfriend pregnant, her dad clearly saw I was distraught and said “Look, many men have been here before, you’ll be ok”. He was right, chances are people have been in the same position as you before and they have probably blogged about it! Learn from your mistakes and learn from theirs. Everyone makes mistakes, but the worst thing you can do is to make them over and over again.

Sometimes there is nothing more refreshing than a startlingly bad analogy. It's like a crisp cucumber bursting from the dip of a bad day's sphincter. Like a restorative rain drenching the vomit of last night's bender. Like a cool breeze tousling the blood-matted fur of roadkill.