High school writers...very funny

ahh yes younge writers!

Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their
collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays.

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 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, 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. 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.

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


Frank M. Acree IV
LAN Administrator
Rowland Medical Library

These are hilarious!! Wow that put a smile on my face!!

Number 3, 11, and 14 are my favorites!!

Thank you so much for sharing this seeker1950!!

LMAO
I love these!

And they say a mind is a terrible thing to waste >>> GOOOO Young writers !!!!

These are Great LOL.

They're intelligent, like a parrot trying to talk.

haha

LOL I especially like the e-coli growing on warm Canadian beef.

Too funny! I especially laughed at #12 ... yes..i have a sick sense of humor


sabby

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

...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.

LMFAO! XxX

I can't pick just one, though the "maggots hitting the frying pan" made me burst out in laughter, as well as others.
Love the writers!
Patty

<font color="purple">#9 is probably my favorite </font>

Thank you for sharing these I love all of them.

I liked the tradition of fathers chasing kids around with power tools and the love bells, like a garbage truck backing up.

Seeker,
Thanks for sharing! These are hillarious

those are so funny! haha i liek the vocabulary one