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    Talking Metaphors, anybody?

    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 six-foot-three-inch 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 also had 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, Grandpappy 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. 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.

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

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

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

    26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

    27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

    28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    fantastic!

    Are you a Terry Pratchett reader?? I think I recognised the bowling ball one....
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    Except for 15, 19, 21, 22, and 25, those were all examples of similies, not metaphors.

    Nice try though
    Last edited by HDTboy; 3rd December 2005 at 08:34.
    Quote Originally Posted by Dean View Post
    Ok im coming out of my closet just this one time , I too kinda have a curvy figure which makes it worse beacuse im a guy. Well the waist kinda goes in and the bum pushes out. When I was in college the girls in my year would slap me on the arse and squeeze because apparently it is firm, tight... I wear jeans
    .....if I find this as a signature Ill hunt you down, serious, capice?

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    heh, caught too...... Was that this week's hitcher test?
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    She had a face like Venus - round, lifeless and pitted with craters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HDTboy
    Except for 15, 19, 21, 22, and 25. Those were all examples of similies, not metaphors.
    Oooo, ouch, I can see this turning into a bad thing.
    To every man upon this earth
    Death cometh sooner or late
    And how can a man die better
    Than facing fearful odds
    For the ashes of his fathers
    And the temples of his Gods

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    Quote Originally Posted by HDTboy
    Except for 15, 19, 21, 22, and 25, those were all examples of similies, not metaphors.

    Nice try though
    Well isn't that ironic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher
    22. 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.
    Haha!! Love it

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    Quote Originally Posted by HDTboy
    Except for 15, 19, 21, 22, and 25, those were all examples of similies, not metaphors.

    Nice try though

    Well aren't you the pedantic one?

    BTW simile...not similie...ahem......
    Kerry

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    Quote Originally Posted by kerryg
    Well aren't you the pedantic one?
    BTW simile...not similie...ahem......
    [Precisian mode = on]
    15 is a simile too...
    so's 19, 21, 22 and 25...

    Similes compare things to one another
    Metaphors state that things are something else:

    e.g.
    picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth - simile
    The picket fences were Nancy Kerrican teeth to the garden's Marc Ellis tongue.

    And for those disputing number 19 try it like this:
    The shots rang out, just like normal shots doing their customary thing.
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    they remind me of the Police Squad/Naked Gun series.. I can just hear Leslie Nielsen talking now..

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    gsoh - all this chat makes me wish I was an English Major all of a suddent ...not...
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    They're actually from the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest. Bulwer Lytton was the guy that opened his novel with "It was a dark and stormy night."

    http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
    Yokai - bendamindaday

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash Braveheart, of Blackadder
    She has a tongue like an electric eel and she likes the taste of a mans tonsils
    one of my favourites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kerryg
    BTW simile...not similie...ahem......
    Plural? I wasn't sure so I guessed
    Quote Originally Posted by Dean View Post
    Ok im coming out of my closet just this one time , I too kinda have a curvy figure which makes it worse beacuse im a guy. Well the waist kinda goes in and the bum pushes out. When I was in college the girls in my year would slap me on the arse and squeeze because apparently it is firm, tight... I wear jeans
    .....if I find this as a signature Ill hunt you down, serious, capice?

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