On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:37:37 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>no1whomatters <no1whomatters@lost.com> wrote in
>news:hse8045qufmd8ba8fi58eqt5je715vb3fb@4ax.com:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:44:49 GMT, "::darkshadows::"
>> <blood@thirsty.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Similes Smiles
>>>
>>>Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
>>>collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
>>>essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
>>>teachers across the country. 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 known 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.
>>>
>> bless u 4 the grins, giggles & guffaws -- like the man @ a funeral
>> who's trying not 2 break out laughing bc he's realized that, thanks to
>> his deceased friend's name, he truly is a Paul-bearer!
>>
>> no1
>>
>>
>
>Ref 23 Shame on you LOL
>
>Mercury.
Well, don't they?
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