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Fri 19 Mar, 2004 10:46 pm
As a sister contest to my "Bad first lines..." I thought everyone would enjoy a contest to make bad (but creative) metaphors. I remember some good examples, but I don't know who said them:
The leaf floated across the water exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't
He was as tall as a six foot, three inch tree
... and so forth. Judging will be in one week from this post, if we get enough entries. Here's one of my own.
Waking up on a rainy saturday morning was like waking up on a sunny tuesday morning--where rain is directly disagreeable as school.
As with the other contest, if you want to be a judge, just PM me. You can still post metaphors, but they won't be judged with the others. Enjoy!
Oops, didn't realize this was a contest.
This metaphor is like a simile, in that it uses the word "like" instead of a direct comparison, which is what a metaphor technically is.
None of my own to add just yet, but Deb posted a huge collection of funny metaphors over here:
"Ask Auntie Lowan"-Post #381404
And there's some good stuff throughout the
Fun with screwy surrealism! thread.
For Winston, writing a five-page english paper was like passing a gallstone--weeks of agonizing anticipation and anxiety, dreading what it would take, but in the end, once he finally sat down to it, it only took a few excruciating hours and it was over with.
His round head sat squarely on his shoulders.
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