Metaphors and Similies

[Alice]

http://www.english-blog.com/archives/2006/06/really_bad_metaphors.php

[Bennyhana]

Those are awesome.  My favorite:

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
filled with vegetable soup.

[cnamon]

I love the one that is my siggy now.  A lot of them were brilliant.

[Alice]

My favorite:

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds
who had also never met.

[Gamplayerx]

My favorite. 

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.

[Listener]

My favorite. 

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.

I think that's semi-lifted from HHGTTG... something about flying...

[Gamplayerx]

My favorite. 

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.

I think that's semi-lifted from HHGTTG... something about flying...

Yes.  It's very Douglas Adamsish.

[eo000]

My favorite. 

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.

I think that's semi-lifted from HHGTTG... something about flying...

Yes.  It's very Douglas Adamsish.

i was thinking the same thing.

[dazie]

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Douglas Adams