Analogies that are so bad it’s funny May 10, 2011

“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.”

“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.”

“Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\a

aakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.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.”

“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 o f 35 mph.”

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

Dr Pepper can.”

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

never met.”

And the winner is:

“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 pin hole in it.”