... require-ment for hand-filtering, and the unique, culturally-loaded nature of the noise involved, we use the workof Veale and Hao as the basis for the cross -cultural investigation in this paper.3 Harvesting ... would not think of as culturally-determined, such “as red as a ruby”, “as cruel asa tyrant” and “as smelly as a skunk”. One signifi-cant reason for this kind of omission is not cultural difference, ... what one would con-sider a well-formed and reusable simile that conveyssome generic aspect of cultural knowledge. Of thosedeemed invalid, 2798 unique pairings were taggedas ironic, insofar...