X is the Y of Z

“X is the Y of Z” is a snowclone–an adaptable, Mad Libs-like idiom like “May I compare thee to an X?”, “X is the new Y,” and “I for one welcome our new X overlords.” This snowclone touches on every subject imaginable, including music. So without further adieu, today’s topic is…

Ted Nugent

As the patron saint of hard rockers and gun enthusiasts, Ted Nugent inspires daily prayers for aggressive music and deadly firearms. I don’t know if St. Ted answers such supplications, but if not, you might want to give these Nugent-like nincompoops a try:

“They all love Marvin, too. Wearing an American flag bandanna and sunglasses, he was like a rock star as people shouted out his name.

‘I’m the Ted Nugent of Trout,’ he joked.

The shocking wand is his guitar. The backpack is his amplifier. And nature is his stage.”

(March 29, 2009, Democrat and Chronicle)

2. Teddy Roosevelt
He was the Ted Nugent of Presidents, and everyone loves the Nug’.

(Feb. 20, 2009, Gabe Lezra, Liz Tung, and Rob Wohl, The Wesleyan Argus)

“And if you’re seriously interested in this topic, you must catch up the Ted Nugent of Physics – Clifford Stoll – whose lecture here at ted.com was fun, if somwehat baffling. If I’d seen this way back when I wrote the article above, perhaps I wouldn’t have been so dismissive of Leary. And perhaps I’d have written about Klein bottles instead.”

(Dec. 1, 2008, KFourMetrics)

“He rants like a man that has never done as days soldering in his life and clearly regrets that. I wonder what he would do to those soldiers who refused to open fire on civilians and civilian areas? Oh, those of us that have read Atlas Shrugged know the answer. He’d have them executed and consider it just.

 He is the Ted Nugent of Objectivism. Next time though he should take his medication as getting all worked up like this cannot be good for a man his age.”

(Nov. 9, 2008, Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature)

“Let’s start with a basic rundown of what makes Hawkman worth keeping around:
          1) He’s a cool-looking dude with wings.
          2) He carries a bad-ass mace.
          3) His vibe is that he’s this tight-ass warrior dude who doesn’t have time for pointless rhetoric like Green Arrow’s           lefty leanings. Beat downs now, ask questions later.

In short, he’s kind of an otherworldly redneck–the Ted Nugent of superheroes.”

(Aug. 15, 2008, Alert Nerd)

“Came out to about $50 a person for food, and considering i got about 10 orders ( 2 pieces each ) of sushi + a hand roll stuffed full of the best blue crab ive every had… not really a bad deal at all.  plus hiro san was wearing little white shorts behind the bar the whole time… hes kinda like the ted nugent of korean sushi chefs in diamond bar.”

(June 19, 2008, Yelp)

“he’s like the Ted Nugent of first ladies, and unless Judith Giuliani can find a way to drop a MOAB by Christmas, New Hampshire’s NRA members may find Mrs. Huckabee irresistible.”

(Nov. 15, 2007, Michael Goldfarb, The Weekly Standard)

“What really made the difference in the cartoon, though, was the monologue itself. If you actually listen to it in between the gags and the characters’ desperate attempts to avoid hearing it, it’s actually a somewhat coherent, if rambling, story. Here it is, as delivered by Ben Stein (the Ted Nugent of cartoon voice actors: an insane man with a cool voice) as Francis Pumphandle – ‘but everybody calls me Pip.’”

(Oct. 22, 2005, Something Old, Nothing New)

Mark Peters is a language columnist and humorist who writes for Good, Visual Thesaurus and other mags, while maintaining too many blogs, including Wordlustitude, The Rosa Parks of Blogs, and The Pancake Proverbs.

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