If you enjoy a BAD analogy ... come on in.

dud

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The following is a list of actual analogies used by students. Some of them are actually quite funny. If you are reading this and still in school ... please feel free to use any/all of these in one or more assignment/project. You may not get a good grade but you might get a few laughs:


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 Canadian beef.

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

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.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

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

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

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.

The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

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

bignateyk

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

:awe:
 

mmntech

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They're all good, but this one is ATOT caliber:



Bad analogy is bad.

"He's a hungry young fighter. In fact, he's fighting for a sandwich."

My favourite is the one about the soup. Really paints a picture of the guy going splat.
 

CPA

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I can confirm this one happens:

It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
 

Lean L

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this thread is like a fart. Everyone knows about it but no one enjoys it besides the deliverer
 

SandEagle

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these old analogies gently fade out of view, like Jesus riding into the sunset on a dinosaur