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Offline nickjtc

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Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« on: July 29, 2008, 05:25:34 PM »
.......................found in High School essays.

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

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.

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

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law 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 college student on $1-a-beer 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.

The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

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

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.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature left over tuna.

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

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

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 free ATM.

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.

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

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

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Birmingham at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55mph, the other from Glasgow at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35mph.

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

He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a refuse truck backing up.

Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any PH cleanser.

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

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2008, 09:41:53 PM »
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Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

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

Somebody's been devouring the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. And failing massively.
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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2008, 09:48:45 PM »
Good laughs there.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

Hey, I know this girl.  And strangely enough, she is as easy as the TV Guide crossword.
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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2008, 09:53:06 PM »
Hey, I know this girl.  And strangely enough, she is as easy as the TV Guide crossword.

Aren't they all, like, easy as crossword puzzles? Like.
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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2008, 09:56:35 PM »
Ya, but she is like literately( ;)) as easy as a like TV Guide crossword.
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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2008, 05:02:37 PM »
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"Oh, Joe, take me!"; she panted, her breasts heaving like a college student on $1-a-beer night.



Reminds me of my days in the Navy :)

I changed the name to protect the innocent.

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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2008, 01:32:09 PM »
Life is like a game of cards.  The hand you are dealt represents determinism.  The way you play it is free will.
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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2008, 06:13:20 PM »


was this after your first time going full trottle with a cb??

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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2008, 07:08:34 AM »
I though we'd have to read through reams of boring self obsessed rap lyrics, so I am very pleasantly surprised in the quality of the writing. I'm starting to have  a little faith in to-days yoof.

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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2008, 07:26:21 AM »
What was that word?

Did you say "yutes"?

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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2008, 12:04:35 PM »


Now THAT made milk come out my nose!  You should be shot!  :D
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Re: Actual exam essay metaphors and analogies.....
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2008, 05:56:34 PM »
.......................found in High School essays.


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



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