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    Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other
    sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

    Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

    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.


    Even in his last years, Grandpa had a mind like a steel trap, only
    one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.


    The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the
    interview portion of Family Fortunes.

    Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.


    The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this
    plan just might work.


    The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
    eating for a while.


    Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a
    student
    on 31p-a-pint night.


    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.


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


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

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


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


    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 cashpoint.


    The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating
    electric fan set on medium.


    It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
    with their power tools.


    He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as
    if she were a dustcart reversing.

    She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.


    She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
    room-temperature British beef.


    She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.


    Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation
    thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.


    It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
    to the wall.
    From a similar list I saw a while ago

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    Reminds me of the Bulwer-Lytton contest. "The opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels".

    http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm
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    Horrible... I'm gonna go read happy things now.
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    Most are pretty bad, but funny however, the one ajaxfetish already pointed out:

    Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be burried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
    is pretty awesome when used in the right context, the teacher who submitted that obviously has no love for creativity and probably rates anything a C are blow if it doesn't sound like Dickens or Shakespeare
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    Some of them are damned imaginitive...

    My favourite:
    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 6:36pm traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19pm at a speed of 35 mph.
    I don't get this one, though:
    The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr. Pepper can.
    There shouldn't be a full stop after Dr on a Dr Pepper can, anyway...
    It was not theirs to reason why,
    It was not theirs to make reply,
    It was theirs but to do or die.
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    "Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
    -Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny

    "For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
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    A few of those are actually the mark of a funny writer, and not a complete idiot, as the list would imply. At least I hope those students aren't so intentionally stupid.

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    Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be burried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
    This one isn't so much an analogy as a short story brilliantly compressed into one sentence.

    Who was First Tall Man? Will there be a Third Tall man? What does she do with all these tall men? What's she got against medium sized men, anyway? Was she engaged to one, only to find he was seeing her younger, prettier sister on the side? Or, Oh my god, it was, wasn't it, her BROTHER?

    I's got to know.

    BTW your Grace, (1) I salute your (100% accurate) knowledge of the abuses of the full stop but (2) why are you not a King any more? has there been a revolution or did you decide Dukes have more fun?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat
    A few of those are actually the mark of a funny writer, and not a complete idiot, as the list would imply. At least I hope those students aren't so intentionally stupid.
    That would make them actually stupid.
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    Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
    Sheer brilliance, actually!


    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..
    This one too is either the work of a rather mediocre 15-year old, or the work of a literary genius.
    Anything unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
    Texan by birth, woodpecker by the grace of God
    I would be the voice of your conscience if you had one - Brenus
    Bt why woulf we uy lsn'y Staraft - Fragony
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    Strange, I find most of them pretty creative. And funny.

    The more outlandish an analogy is, the funnier. These things can't just stand alone; context indicates the intent, so leaving them out like that make many of them look either like really biting satire or excellent sarcarm.

    A few, though, are just dumb.
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    Weird, I've actually stumbled upon another site whom the first link is probably based on (could be the opposite, but this link actually refers to the persons sending it in, I think).
    In Swedish though and they're probably taken from different places before that.
    link
    We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

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    Weird.

    The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr. Pepper can.
    Politikern försvann omärkligt, som punkten efter Dr. på en Dr Pepper-burk.
    (Viktor Good, Malung)


    Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:\flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaak/ch@ng by mistake.
    Bob var lika förbryllad som en hacker som velat komma åt T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung men som istället kom åt T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung.
    (Kent Karlsson, Ängelholm)


    Edit: meh, who cares where they originated from. They're fun.
    Last edited by Louis VI the Fat; 03-09-2006 at 15:51.
    Anything unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
    Texan by birth, woodpecker by the grace of God
    I would be the voice of your conscience if you had one - Brenus
    Bt why woulf we uy lsn'y Staraft - Fragony
    Not everything
    blue and underlined is a link


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    There are three kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't.

    Not really an analogy, but I wanted to join in the fun. :)
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    And here I always thought there were 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

    Ajax

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