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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Let us see who can come up with the most clever similie. I shall make my first attempt with:

Bread is like Lazarus, it rises.
 

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Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
 
Darn! I read the funniest one on a kid's paper today. I gave it back though so I will have to hunt him down and post it tomorrow. The topic of the essay was to write about something that makes you feel anxious. He wrote as a dog who is running from a dogcatcher.
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 
Do you mean simile?
 

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Posted by suminonA (Member # 8757) on :
 
Up is like down, it needs the other to exist.
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
She was as pure and untouched as a newbie's spellchecker.
 

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Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
 
It's "smiley," but the plural is "smilies."
 

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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
 
Life is like a hamburger, put too much ketchup on it and you ruin the whole thing.

Blackadder had some of the best: He was as mean and viscious as, as, as a really really mean and viscious thing.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
Her retort was cool and antiseptic, like she'd just spit on him with Listerine.


 

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Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
 
Yay for Blackadder!

And Hugh Laurie, I loved his expressions of enthusiasm.

</derail>
 

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Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
 
I read that as smilies the first time.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
Life as a boxer left him with a face like a map showing eons of continental drift.
 

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Posted by suminonA (Member # 8757) on :
 
I'm like you, only different.
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by twinky:
It's "smiley," but the plural is "smilies."

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quote:

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Originally posted by kojabu:
I read that as smilies the first time.

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I admit I had to look at it twice, too.
 

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Posted by suminonA (Member # 8757) on :
 
She smiled at him, as if his whole life depended on it.
 

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Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
 
"He hit the ground like a hefty bag full of tomato soup" <- I wish I could claim that was my own.
 

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Posted by Vid (Member # 7172) on :
 
I'm quick-witted like Peter Griffin.
 

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