The Worst Analogies
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- These are some winners of the "worst analogies ever written in a high school essay" contest run by the Washington Post:
- "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 accross 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 7pm 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."
- "Bob was perplexed as a hacker who means to access >> T:flw.quid55328.com/aaakk/ch@ung but gets Tflw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake"
- "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'."
- "The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after 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 red brick wall was the color of a brick-red crayola crayon."
- "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 6:30 pm traveling at 55mph, the other from topeka at 4:19pm at 35mph."
- "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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