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The Worst High School Analogies
puskarich Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 01-04-2003
Posts: 2,143
Not sure if the names have been changed to protect the innocent, but funny nontheless.

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Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay.

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.
Joseph Romm, Washington

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
Russell Beland, Springfield

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring

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 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Roy Ashley, 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

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."
Russell Beland, Springfield

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 leaving from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
Jennifer Hart, Arlington

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth
Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Russell Beland, Springfield

The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free
Chuck Smith, Woodbridge

The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
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bigjordo Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 11-28-2002
Posts: 154
my own personal contributions....senior year of high school, in my AP english class, we did little literary warmup exercises for god knows what reason....one was to fill in an analogy for the following...
a gazelles neck is like_____
an elephants neck is like____
a flamingos neck is like____

my responses were as follows
a gazelles neck is like a rolled up piece of brown carpet
an elephants neck is like is like an elephants foot, only without toe-nails and more neck-like
a flamingos neck is like one of those big pink glasses you get at beach bars thats really tall and skinny


man that teacher hated me
tailgater Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 06-01-2000
Posts: 26,185
Reading through that whole list was as annoying as trying to flick a booger, only to have it stick to the flicking finger, and then when you wipe it away it sticks to the other hand, and you have to keep doing it until it finally gets dry enough to flick off your finger and out the car window.
JonR Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 02-19-2002
Posts: 9,740
Rick Mavens comments are as hard to swallow as it is to watch Tailgator flick his boogers. JonR
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
excellent analogies. may i add some oldies but goodies.

THE WATER TASTED SO GOOD, SHE JUMPED DOWN THE WELL.

IF YOU WERE ANY MORE DECKED OUT, THEY WOULD BUILD
A THEME PARK AROUND YOU.

YOU SAY THAT LIKE IT WAS SPELLED IN CAPITAL LETTERS.


sorry about the caps.
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