<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">These are great! Laughing is a great stress-buster!<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Jude<br><div><div>On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Nancy DuVergne Smith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Hi all<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This is passed-on Internet humor…just makes you love our trade,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Nancy<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>FW:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Analogies Written by High School Students</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.< /div><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Nancy DuVergne Smith<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">MIT Alumni Association | Editorial Director<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">W98-3rd Fl | 617-253-8217 |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ndsmith@mit.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">ndsmith@mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://alum.mit.edu/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://alum.mit.edu/</a> | Slice of MIT blog: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://alum.mit.edu/sliceofmit" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://alum.mit.edu/sliceofmit</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Editors mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Editors@mit.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Editors@mit.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Judith M. 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