Imagine you are a teacher and your students give you these in their essays.

1. 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 ofthose 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.
2. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. 3. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
4. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
5. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
6. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30
7. 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 Topekaat 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
8. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
9. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.
10. 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.
11. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
12. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
13. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
14. 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 landmine or something.
15. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.


Found that in some blog that yik ling showed me. Its a must share. So i copy and paste it here. hah.
Oh ya. yikling is writing an essay on gender inequality. Its like me writing an essay on the world outside our world. See the link?? No right? Precisely. Theres no link.. LOL..