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mikey3000
Dec 3, 2009, 4:27 PM
Absolutely hysterical:

These are taken from papers turned in by high school students.

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
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.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a 6'3" tree.
8. 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 surcharge-free ATM.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. 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 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
14. 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.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Grand pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
22. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.
23. 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.
24. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
25. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
26. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
27. She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.
28. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
29. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
30. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

rissababynta
Dec 3, 2009, 4:36 PM
Who the hell staples their tongues to the wall?

Cherokee_Mountaincat
Dec 3, 2009, 4:48 PM
Lord, and I thought my students were bad! lol Love it.
Cat

tenni
Dec 3, 2009, 5:42 PM
Well, I saw a guy once who actually put staples into his face on purpose as part of an act..but not a tongue on the wall.


Some of this just goes to show how the common elements of the world have changed...ie using an ATM for a simile metaphor...lol
Kids...are funny

DC_looking
Dec 3, 2009, 6:15 PM
They are hysterical. I don't; However, believe they were written by high school kids. Every year there is a literary contest where published writers compete at writing the worst lead paragraph imaginable. They come up with stuff like this. Thanks for posting I had a good laugh.

mikey3000
Dec 3, 2009, 6:27 PM
Found it here, under the fun stuff:
http://www.algebra.com/

None the less, I killed myself laughing.

FalconAngel
Dec 4, 2009, 4:38 AM
Number 9. Someone's been reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Some of them are just dumb, but the ones that aren't are hilarious.

TwylaTwobits
Dec 4, 2009, 8:00 AM
LOL thanks for posting I actually did laugh at loud at a few

12voltman59
Dec 4, 2009, 11:43 AM
I know that these are said to be from students, but as DC Looking said, I would bet that at least some of these did come from one of those "mangled literature" type contests they have----I got a chuckle out of the list at any rate--thanks for posting.

Realist
Dec 4, 2009, 2:07 PM
That tickled me, too! I love misspelled things from church bulletins, things kids write, and excerpts like that above. You can't get anyone to write stuff funnier than that!

I remember one from a church bulletin that went something like this:

"After services on Wednesdays, there is a meeting for Little Mothers in the basement. Any young lady, who is interested in being a Little Mother, please report to the pastor after church tonight."

mikey3000
Dec 4, 2009, 3:00 PM
I read one that said, "The weight watcher's group meets every Wednesday night in the church hall. Please use the double doors at the side." Or something like that, but so funny.

mikey3000
Dec 4, 2009, 3:03 PM
Number 9. Someone's been reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


Are you a fan? I have an autograpged paperback copy I'm thinking of putting up on ebay. Any advice?

Karasel
Dec 6, 2009, 7:13 PM
Pretty creative though.