Language spam

[iceprincess324]

Sorry if you've seen this before, but clever language things make me giggle. The e-mail says these analogies are taken from actual high school essays and collected by English teachers across the country for their own amusement.

It made me realize I almost never use analogies in my writing. My mind goes stagnant, like the Emergency Broadcast System

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[becofoz]

I can't think, my brain is as dead as a doornail...

I was reading some spoilers the other day for one of my TV shows and it said "...someone turns up missing." How can you turn up missing? Please explain...

[iceprincess324]

Ut oh... If you're brain dead, how will you ever know how many extra bonus metaphor points you got? And how much more impressive you managed it...while brain dead?! You are one smart brain dead Ozzie. ;) *high five*

'Tis a good question about the "turning up missing." It would seem that the someone is contradicting himself, what with the turning up and being missing. Perhaps he/she was having an out-of-body experience? Like so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection

[becofoz]

How 'bout...I struggled like a fish out of water to come up with one, let alone two, metaphors!

Why is it you can never think of them when you want to?

[iceprincess324]

Hey, that's one more than anyone else came up with! You're practically prolific--like a literary JS Bach on speed...

[becofoz]

Yeah but I'm all tapped out now like...nope, nothing :)