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<p class=MsoPlainText>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>This is passed-on Internet humor…just makes you
love our trade,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Nancy<o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> FW: <b>Analogies Written by High
School Students</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its
two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster. <br>
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. <br>
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. <br>
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was
room-temperature Canadian beef. <br>
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just
before it throws up. <br>
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. <br>
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.< /div> <br>
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 machine. <br>
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling
ball wouldn’t. <br>
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled
with vegetable soup. <br>
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. <br>
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. <br>
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry
them in hot grease. <br>
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. <br>
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that
resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth. <br>
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also
never met. <br>
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East
River. <br>
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only=2
0one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut. <br>
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. <br>
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this
plan just might work. <br>
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for
a while. <br>
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. <br>
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg
behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. <br>
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power
tools. <br>
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if
she were a garbage truck backing up.<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Nancy DuVergne Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>MIT Alumni Association | Editorial Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>W98-3rd Fl | 617-253-8217 | ndsmith@mit.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>http://alum.mit.edu/ | Slice of MIT blog:
http://alum.mit.edu/sliceofmit<o:p></o:p></p>
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