An art thief once stole some very expensive paintings from the Louvre in Paris. He took two Van Gogh's, a couple of Monets, a DeGas, and some other paintings. Everything went perfectly, except he was captured sitting in his van with the paintings only 2 blocks from the museum. When asked by the police how he could plan such a successful robbery but still end up getting caught he replied: "I had no Monet to buy DeGas to make the Van Gogh"
There is a guy in town who walks around talking to himself using only figurative language. We call him the Village Idiom.