Groovy Wordbenders (brilliant)

[Bugsy]

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year for the amusement of teachers across the country.

Here are last year's winners:

1. Her face was a perfect oval. Like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room - temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six foot, three inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 PM, instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain, like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 PM traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 PM at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds that had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart were a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law, Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck, and not the proverbial lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

[Cassis]

I'd be proud to have been the author of most of those.  [:D]

[Dick Smith]

You will be, I am sure.

[Cerise]

Weren't you??[8-)]

[Cassis]

No.  My name is not Stephen Fry.

[Dick Smith]

Sorry, I was paraphrasing the comments of your Sig Person to Mr Whistler...

[Cassis]

I know.  But I have always thought that part of Stephen Fry's mental instability stems from a lifelong regret at not having been born as Oscar Wilde (whose part he once played, I vaguely recall).

[Dick Smith]

Yes, I think you are right. He said it was the part he had been born to play - and he did it rather well, but not as well as Jeeves.

He's an interesting character. I don't think that he is hugely intelligent, per se, he just doesn't pretend to be dumb, which you have to do to be a success in Britain these days.

[Pierre ZFP]

[quote user="Cassis"]I know.  But I have always thought that part of Stephen Fry's mental instability stems from a lifelong regret at not having been born as Oscar Wilde (whose part he once played, I vaguely recall).
[/quote]

I rather thought that Steve played the whole of Oscar, not just his part....

 

Yeah, OK,  .....coat

 

[Cassis]

[:D] I don't think he would mind, either way.