Worst Analogies on High School Essays

These are the winners of the "worst analogies ever written in a high school essay" contest

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

The children heard the grandfather clock ticking. It sounded exactly unlike the digital clock in their bedroom.

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…

Joey was as hungry as a famished locust that had not eaten in days.

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

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 p.m. instead of 7:30.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:\flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

Mary was as interested in Joey as she was in a two-day old tuna sandwich left on the kitchen table, hidden by a dishcloth. This perplexed Joey.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."

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.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

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

The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.

Teachers are overpaid??

(Humorous... I found this online, but thought it was interesting)

I'm fed up with teachers and their hefty salary guides.
What we need here is a little perspective. If I had my
way, I'd pay these teachers myself...I'd pay them
Babysitting wages. That's right. I
Instead of paying these outrageous taxes,
I'd give them $3.00 an hour out of my own
pocket. And I'm only going to pay them for five hours, not
coffee breaks. That would be $15.00 a day. Each parent
should pay $15 a day for these teachers to babysit their
children. Even if they have more than one child, it's
still cheaper than private day care.

Now, how many children do they teach in a day, maybe
twenty? That's $15 X 20 = $300 a day. But remember they
only work 180 days a year! I'm not going to pay them for
all those vacations. $300 X180 = $54,000. (Just a minute,
I think my calculator needs batteries.)


I know you teachers will say, "What about those who have
ten years of experience and a Master's degree?" Well,
maybe, (just to be fair) they could get the minimum wage,
and instead of just babysitting, they could read the kids a
story. We can round that off to about $5.00 an hour, times
5 hours, times 20 children...$5.00 X 5 X 20. That's $500 a
day times 180 days. That's $90,000. HUH? Wait a
minute...! Let's get a little perspective here.

Babysitting wages are too good for those teachers. Did
anyone see a salary guide around here???!!!