Comment by dgb23
6 days ago
It's a fun image, but I was not my idea. I was playfully referring to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashtray_(Or_the_Man_Who_De...
Although in this original case the image (that allegedly happened) used to criticize the philopher (Kuhn), so kind of the other side of the coin of what I said above.
Thanks for the context!
An ashtray is such a temporally rooted object, the phrase, "throwing around ashtrays," immediately conjures a bunch of peripheral concrete imagery.
I imagine there will soon be generations of young people who wonder what a tray of ashes was used for and why people used to collect them all over their homes and offices.