or "Her breasts were honeycombs and dew-beaded windows, or soft, sweet cheese." ...
I saw this link in
Babek Nabel about a fairy woman's description in a a published SF novel that is such awfully purple prose that it's almost good. As a humour work, that is. Especially since you can't read it without laughing with tears in your eyes at the horrible badness of it.
Judge for yourself:
http://vandonovan.livejournal.com/1088311.html I will accept no blame for broken brains, scarred eyeballs or keyboards destroyed by snorting liquid all over them... :D