Got this from another list I'm on. Enjoy...makes yoiu wonder just what experience they went through to come up with these.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Analogies & Metaphors found in High School Essays Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its 2 other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. >>Sue Lin Chong, Washington >> His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. >>Chuck Smith, Woodbridge >> He spoke with 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 dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. >>Joseph Romm, Washington >> Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. >-Chuck Smith, Woodbridge >> Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. >>-Russell Beland, Springfield >> >>Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake. >>-Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills >> Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. >>-Unknown >> He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. >>-Jack Bross, Chevy Chase >> The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. >>-Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring >> >>Long separated by cruel fate, 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. >>-Jennifer Hart, Arlington >> A politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can. >>-Wayne Goode, Madison,AL >> They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. >>-Paul Kocak, Syracuse NY >> John & Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. >>-Russell Beland, Springfield >> The thunder was ominous sounding, much like sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play. >>-Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria >> The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon. >>-Unknown >> He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River. >>Brian Broadus, Charlottesville >> 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. - >>Sandra Hull, Arlington >> The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview portion of "Jeopardy!" >>-Jean Sorensen, Herndon >> Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. -Jerry Pannullo, Kensington >> The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. >>-Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington >> The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. >>-Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington >> "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night. >>-Bonnie Speary Devore, Gaithersburg >> 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. >>-John Kammer, Herndon >> Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. >>-Barbara Collier, Garrett Park >> She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. >>-Susan Reese, Arlington >> It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before. >>-Marian Carlsson, Lexington >> The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton. >>-J. F. Knowles, Springfield >> The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. >>-Jennifer Hart, Arlington >> The revelation that his marriage of 30 yrs had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM. >>-Paul J. Kocak, Syracuse >> The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium. >>-Unknown >> It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. >>-Brian Broadus, Charlottesville >> He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. >>-Susan Reese, Arlington >> She was as easy as the "TV Guide" crossword. >>-Tom Witte, Gaithersburg >> Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser >>-Chuck Smith, Woodbridge >> She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. >>-Brian Broadus, Charlottesville >> She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs >>-Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park >> Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first- generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened. >>-Sue Lin Chong, Washington >> It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
