Two Brain Cells :: Worst analogies ever?

Apparently these are some of the “worst analogies ever written in a high school essay“. But actually, a lot of these are exactly the kind of writing that makes people fawn over ‘real authors’ for their inventive comic way with words. Take this, for example: “The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.” That’s practically a Douglas Adamsism, that is!

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matthewr

These were circulated at my old school, a few years ago. There were a couple more, like “she walked into my office like a centipede with ninety-eight missing legs”, and “it was a working-class tradition, like fathers chasing their children around with power tools”.

My personal favourite was “it hurt the way that your tongue hurts when you accidentally staple it to the wall”.

I agree that the bowling ball one sounds suspiciously like an Adams opening line.

January 10th, 2007 2:18 am

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