[Published on this date 25 years ago, these are the winners fro=
m a 2000 state-wide contest in high school English for the WORST analogy.]=
Her =
vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. (Alyssa N)
He was as tall as a si=
x-foot-three-inch tree. (Jack B)
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sp;
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, j=
ust like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. (Gary F)
Long separated b=
y 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 mp=
h. (Jennifer H)
The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period afte=
r the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can. (Wayne G)
They lived in a typical suburban ne=
ighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth (Paul K=
)
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also=
never met. (Naomi P)
The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound=
of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in =
a play. (Barbara F)
His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking a=
lliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free (Charles W)
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Dr. Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“1 cross + 3 nail=
s =3D 4 given”