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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 02:12 PM Oct 2015

Actual Analogies Used By High School Students in English Essays. Bwahahahaha.....

Actual Analogies Used By High School Students in English Essays.

1. When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment.

2. Her eyes twinkled, like the moustache of a man with a cold.

3. She was like a magnet: Attractive from the back, repulsive from the front.

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

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

6. She had him like a toenail stuck in a shag carpet.

7. The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.

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

9. Her eyes were like the stars, not because they twinkle, but because they were so far apart.

10. His career was blowing up like a man with a broken metal detector walking through an active minefield.

11. The sun was below the watery horizon, like a diabetic grandma easing into a warm salt bath.

12. 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 at a 7:00 p.m. Instead of 7:30.

13. It was as easy as taking candy from a diabetic man who no longer wishes to eat candy.

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

15. Their love burned with the fiery intensity of a urinary tract infection.

16. It's basically an illusion and no different than if I were to imagine something else, like Batman riding a flying toaster.

17. If it was any colder, it would be like being in a place that's a little colder than it is here.

18. Joy fills her heart like a silent but deadly fart fills a room with no windows.

19. The bird flew gracefully into the air like a man stepping on a landmine in zero gravity.

20. He felt confused. As confused as a homeless man on house arrest.

21. 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.

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Actual Analogies Used By High School Students in English Essays. Bwahahahaha..... (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Oct 2015 OP
LOVE this one randys1 Oct 2015 #1
I'm going to have to go with- 11. The sun was below the watery horizon, like a diabetic grandma easi snooper2 Oct 2015 #2
awesome. I love this stuff. :D roguevalley Oct 2015 #10
That is actually very good. Quite Thompsonesque. hifiguy Oct 2015 #6
That one is worthy of Mark Twain IDemo Oct 2015 #19
Some of those are really funny. Xyzse Oct 2015 #3
#3 irisblue Oct 2015 #16
my favorite also Motown_Johnny Oct 2015 #20
#15 - omg!!!!! Initech Oct 2015 #4
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah indeed malaise Oct 2015 #5
My persona favorite B2G Oct 2015 #7
Jeopardy at 7:30 ?!?!? I can't even imagine something that bizare. n/t Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #8
"When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment." KamaAina Oct 2015 #9
I salute these... Ron Obvious Oct 2015 #11
Some are actually pretty good, most are funny... joeybee12 Oct 2015 #12
My favorite is #17 Contrary1 Oct 2015 #13
Actually, those come from a contest DavidDvorkin Oct 2015 #14
#15 wins Chitown Kev Oct 2015 #15
Thanks for the laughs, Are_grits_groceries!! Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #17
Hysterical! Thanks for the laugh! smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #18
Laughing out loud over here!!!! mike dub Oct 2015 #21
 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
2. I'm going to have to go with- 11. The sun was below the watery horizon, like a diabetic grandma easi
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 02:41 PM
Oct 2015

over/under? 9 posts till offended come?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
6. That is actually very good. Quite Thompsonesque.
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 03:48 PM
Oct 2015

Reminded me a lot of Matt Taibbi's wonderful "Watching Tim Tebow trying to throw a forward pass is like watching a moose try to fuck a washing machine."

Initech

(100,060 posts)
4. #15 - omg!!!!!
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 02:58 PM
Oct 2015

I could totally picture Leslie Nielsen using that line as Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun flicks!

 

B2G

(9,766 posts)
7. My persona favorite
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 03:48 PM
Oct 2015

12. 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 at a 7:00 p.m. Instead of 7:30.

LMAO!

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
9. "When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment."
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 04:00 PM
Oct 2015

What teacher would assign his/her students an essay about Celine Dion?

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
12. Some are actually pretty good, most are funny...
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 06:10 PM
Oct 2015

but a deadly fart???? Male student wrote that...fart jokes work with boys, not with girls...I learned that on South Park.

Contrary1

(12,629 posts)
13. My favorite is #17
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 07:20 PM
Oct 2015

If it was any colder, it would be like being in a place that's a little colder than it is here.

DavidDvorkin

(19,473 posts)
14. Actually, those come from a contest
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 10:54 PM
Oct 2015

conducted some years ago in which the point was to come up with absurd, strained, but funny and clever analogies.

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
17. Thanks for the laughs, Are_grits_groceries!!
Sat Oct 17, 2015, 12:51 AM
Oct 2015

I used to tell people that I took my first wife with me everywhere I went... because she was too ugly to kiss goodbye!

Peace,

Ghost

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