Saw this on another of my forums ...
Quite a lot of these cracked me up ... I hope you enjoy them
e> > Extracts from High School Essays in which students were asked to use
> > analogies and metaphors.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 p.m. 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 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at
> > 4:19 p.m. 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 who had
> > also never met.
> >
> > 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the
> > East River.
> >
> > 18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy 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 known 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. Not the metaphorical 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 njoy!
Quite a lot of these cracked me up ... I hope you enjoy them
e> > Extracts from High School Essays in which students were asked to use
> > analogies and metaphors.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 p.m. 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 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at
> > 4:19 p.m. 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 who had
> > also never met.
> >
> > 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the
> > East River.
> >
> > 18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy 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 known 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. Not the metaphorical 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 njoy!
That was great
