A Gag

[albertino]

"A man without a woman is like a fish without a
bicycle."

My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours. That
was only for the estimate.

What do they(the underlined) mean?

[Tdol]

Fish don't need and cannot use bikes; it serves to emphasise how women have no need of men.
An estimate is a calculation of the approximate cost, not the treatment.

[albertino]

Fish don't need and cannot use bikes; it serves to emphasise how women have no need of men.
An estimate is a calculation of the approximate cost, not the treatment.

Got it. Thank you.

[BobK]

Fish don't need and cannot use bikes; it serves to emphasise how women have no need of men.
...

Albertino - maybe you didn't understand the fish/bicycle thing because you had heard it mis-quoted. It was a commonly quoted line in the '60s and '70s in in association with feminists such as Kate Millett (Kate Millett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and Germaine Greer (Germaine Greer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) in the form "A woman without a man...".

b

[Casiopea]

Albertino - maybe you didn't understand the fish/bicycle thing because you had heard it mis-quoted. / ... "A woman without a man...".

The way in which teachers interpret how learners assess new language interests me, and so when you noticed that switching the nouns (woman / man) could cause confusion, it intrigued me somewhat because the simile's meaning; i.e., A and B are not inherently connected, stays constant; i.e., B and A are not inherently connected. So, could you help me in understanding how you see switching the nouns could cause a learner confusion?

[BobK]

The way in which teachers interpret how learners assess new language interests me, and so when you noticed that switching the nouns (woman / man) could cause confusion, it intrigued me somewhat because the simile's meaning; i.e., A and B are not inherently connected, stays constant; i.e., B and A are not inherently connected. So, could you help me in understanding how you see switching the nouns could cause a learner confusion?

It was a veiled compliment, Casi - I was suggesting that it was more obvious that women are indispensable to men than vice versa.

b

[Tdol]

Albertino - maybe you didn't understand the fish/bicycle thing because you had heard it mis-quoted. It was a commonly quoted line in the '60s and '70s in in association with feminists such as Kate Millett (Kate Millett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and Germaine Greer (Germaine Greer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) in the form "A woman without a man...".

b

Oops- I misread it the trad feminist way.