On a lighter note...

[jack scribe]

A friend sent me supposedly actual analogies and metaphors collected by a high school English teacher. These heinous examples are culled from a writing competition. Here are a few of my favorites:

1. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes

just before it throws up.

2. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg

behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

3. She grew on him like she was a colony of Ecoli and he was

room-temperature Canadian Ham.

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

5. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the

East River.

6. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,

this plan just might work.

7. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with

power tools.

Big grins and hugs,

Jack

[JamesSavik]

6. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,

this plan just might work.

7. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with

power tools.

that's great. I've got an in-law like Phil.

#7 is actually good- like something from an Elecivil tale!

:geek:

[EleCivil]

Haha, I saw that a little while ago. Brother-in-law Phil was my favorite, but I loved these, too:

-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.

-She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

-It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.