Good old "Honest Abe", a great man who picked himself up by his own bootstraps to become president.... actually this has little to do with Abraham Lincoln other then borrowing his name. What this has to do with anything is the creation of two new terms being produced for the world at large.
Metal Lincoln - referring to anybody down on their luck collecting the "metal cans" of life in order to scrape by. A true Metal Lincoln will follow his/her beliefs never wavering no matter how hard life gets. This can be used either to refer to an actual homeless person collecting cans to survive; or more metaphorically to refer to a person fighting their way up from the bottom, and once there never losing sight of their goals.
Notable Metal Lincolns (look these up yourself): Mother Teresa (metaphorical), Christopher Paul Gardner (actual and metaphorical), Frank O'Dea (a Tin Lincoln who became a Metal Lincoln)
Tin Lincoln - referring to anybody either down on their luck or in a position of power who would given a chance knife you for your "metal cans". This can be used to either describe a homeless person collecting cans to make enough money to get to their next fix, especially one that would literally stab another person for their goods; or a person in a position of power who says one thing then does whatever they want, only standing up for their belief in self preservation.
Notable Tin Lincolns (look these up yourself): Stéphane Dion (metaphorical; for saying no to the Conservatives but not voting against them), most of the homeless on Whyte (actual), Frank O'Dea (a Tin Lincoln who became a Metal Lincoln)
Now that you have these two new terms I want you to go out there and spread the good word. I expect to hear these terms used on TV before the year is out.
-Tyler "The Tungsten Lincoln"
Note: The origin of the terms come from a dream that took place in the 31st century. There they referred literally to cyborg/human hybrids, with Metal Lincolns as the government maintained forces and the Tin Lincolns as a guerilla army of homeless cyborg/humans that would attack places to collect tin cans in order to repair their cyborg bodies. So if we ever reach the point of cyborg/human hybrids I will allow the terms to revert to the original meaning but until then these new meanings take precedent.
