21 Actual Analogies Used By High School Students in English Essays. #8 Is Gold.

[KamaAina]

http://www.tickld.com/x/21-actual-analogies-used-by-high-school-students-in-english-essays-8-is-gold

[Xyzse]

1. Some of those are actually pretty good.

Yes, I agree on the Thighmaster one.

I lost it at the magnet.

[valerief]

2. Great similes. nt

[geardaddy]

3. I like number 6

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

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. I kinda like #12. --- but, omg the rest of them --- LOL so funny !!

Laughed til I cried

[bvar22]

5. These kids are bright.

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

[panader0]

7. Some funny stuff there...

[malthaussen]

8. These kids need to be told about the Bulwer-Lytton prize. n/t

[wain]

9. Thanks for the post.

#5 made me laugh and was a home run for great analogies

[Warpy]

10. Bulwer-Lytton winners, you've got competition!

Some of those are priceless in the same way a suicide who jumped off a high floor "landed like a Hefty Bag full of vegetable soup."

That was my favorite non winner so far.

[3catwoman3]

11. These all create very...

...vivid images. I found them very creative and quite entertaining. I wish there were more.

[lovemydog]

16. I found some more:

http://nedhardy.com/2013/02/08/56-actual-analogies-and-metaphors-found-in-high-school-essays/

I like # 53:

53. You know how in “Rocky” he prepares for the fight by punching sides of raw beef? Well, yesterday it was as cold as that meat locker he was in.

[lovemydog]

17. a few more:

5. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

31. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

35. Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like “Second Tall Man.”

42. Oooo, he smells bad, she thought, as bad as Calvin Klein’s Obsession would smell if it were called Enema and was made from spoiled Spamburgers instead of natural floral fragrances.

50. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.

51. It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.

[cemaphonic]

22. Good catch, some of these are even better than the list in the OP.

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

17. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

15. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at asolar 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.

9. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

45. The sardines were packed as tight as the coach section of a 747.

[lovemydog]

23. Haha, yeah!

[demmiblue]

12. Bookmarking!

Because these really did make me lol!

[Iggo]

13. 12 kicks ass and 17 straight up stole my style!

[cemaphonic]

21. Yeah, #12 and #17 sound like Laurie Anderson lyrics

#7 is pretty great too.

At least some of these just have to be deliberate attempts at humor, right?

[shenmue]

14. These belong in the Bulwer-Lytton contest

[lovemydog]

15. I laughed till I was out of breath, like a hyena

that is farting from the back and has the hiccups at the front.

[KamaAina]

19. DUzy!

[lame54]

18. #7

[evirus]

20. Sounds like scenes from Family Guy

Still funny

[Rhiannon12866]

24. #9!!!