"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
news:qth904hgksepucgsa3gsd405e09cgopu8q@4ax.com:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:37:37 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
> wrote:
>
>>no1whomatters <no1whomatters@lost.com> wrote in
>>news:hse8045qufmd8ba8fi58eqt5je715vb3fb@4ax.com:
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>>> 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?
>
I shall refrain from further comment LOL
Mercury.
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