Ridiculous stuff

I got sent this in an email today. It really made me laugh. It's probably apocryphal but who cares. This is not a knock at today's youth for whom I have a very high regard! Please feel free to add your own...

The future of English Literature -

Metaphors found in GCSE English Essays:

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently
compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants
in a tumble dryer.

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

4. McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with
vegetable soup.

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

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

7. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

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

9. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in
hot grease.

10. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy
field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left York at 6:36 p.m.
travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

11. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the Dr. on a Dr
Pepper can.

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

13. 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.

14. The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.

15. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had
been left out so long it had rusted shut.

16. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

17. The plan was simple, like my mate Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

18. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

19. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student on
31p-a-pint night.

20. 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.

21. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter
from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."

22. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before
it throws up.

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

24. 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 cashpoint.

25. The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set
on medium.

26. It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with their
power tools.

27. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were
a dustcart reversing.

28. She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.

29. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature
British beef.

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

31. Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper
fax machine that needed a band tightened.

32. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.