Because just about every Friday afternoon something really funny (at least to me) comes across my desk.  This week it is a list of analogies and metaphors - claiming to be actual examples from high school students' work. Now, whether they were written by high schoolers really doesn't matter, they were pretty funny.  Here are my three favorites.

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

He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

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

posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 10:23 AM

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# re: Analogies
posted by adam k
on 12/9/2004 11:29 AM
Here is a funny one. well at least i think it is...


A short boy is like a 4'8" tree.
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# re: Analogies
posted by A random person
on 3/9/2005 7:12 PM
Haha I found this thing off of google because I am trying to find a good analogy to begin my paper with... sorry I don' think any of urs helped but they were funny :)
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# re: Analogies
posted by Random
on 6/24/2005 7:57 AM
... dumber than two blind guys having a staring contest

...dumber then two bald guys fighting over a comb
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# re: Analogies
posted by ngiens
on 7/5/2005 5:40 PM

....it's so hot, i was sweating like a whore in church

....it's hotter than two squirrels screwing in a wool sock behind a dryer
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# re: Analogies
posted by cg
on 7/7/2005 8:07 AM
out.. like a fat kid in dodgeball
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# re: Analogies
posted by fafnir
on 8/3/2005 5:58 PM
...she could swear like five Irish sailors in a spittin' contest.
...shaking hands with him was like grabbing a sock full of pudding.
...that boy was dumber than a bag of thumbs.
...as graceful as a cross-eyed hippo on a three-wheeled skateboard.
...slicker than snot on a doorknob.
...car shot through that tunnel like bacon fat through a goose.
...like, whatever.
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# re: Analogies
posted by sslegg
on 8/27/2005 4:43 AM
Busier than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
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# re: Analogies
posted by bobby turner
on 10/15/2005 1:19 PM
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.
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# re: Analogies
posted by jeff roanegip
on 10/15/2005 1:23 PM

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.

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

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

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.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

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."

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.

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

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

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

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.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
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# re: Analogies
posted by GOD
on 2/8/2006 4:41 PM
more confused than a wood pecker in a concrete jungle.
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# re: Analogies
posted by antho
on 8/29/2006 3:15 AM
working harder than a one armed brick layer in baghdad

tried to squeeze something as though he was squeezing a marshmallow into a money box

as slow as a heard of turtles stampeding through peanut butter

as sober as a judge

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# re: Analogies
posted by Chris
on 11/15/2006 3:10 PM
busier than a one legged riverdancer with athletes foot
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# re: Analogies
on 1/25/2007 11:09 AM
About a task where a much bigger than necessary tool was used to do a task...

...talk about cracking a walnut with a sledge hammer...

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