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If you like snowclones, you may enjoy The Rosa Parks of Blogs and Poor Man’s Version, devoted to specific instances of X is the Y of Z and X is the poor man’s Y respectively.

There was a nice article about snowclones published back in February on IEEE Spectrum, in which the SCDB even gets a mention.¹ It’s also got a nice quick rundown of the history of the term.

(illustration by Dan Page, from the article linked above)

¹And you may notice that all the examples and their explanations come from here, too. And I had to badger them to add the link!