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Murder by metaphor
Monday, January 05, 2009 — posted by Alan Pringle
The Shanghai Tech Writer blog has a hilarious list of awful metaphors written by high school students. These gems include:- Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
- 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 of 35 mph.
- They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.
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