Saturday, January 15, 2011

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English teachers)


1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.
 
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.....

If you were able to read this with a straight face, then you are my hero (or you need to see a therapist, I am not sure which).

The ultimate test will be reading all the 25 gems in this article taken from actual high school essays and collected by English teachers across the country for their own amusement - without cracking a smile. Good luck!



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