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post #16 of 22
4/11/10 at 10:55am
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Originally Posted by sho'nuff View Post
heck, i can write like that too, "she was as heavy as a 345lb fat woman" . no?
Mimicry is the highest form of flattery . no?

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i actually dont think this is clever writing ( by the high schoolers) but more so that they couldnt find literative and eloquent ways to describe their points so they resort to basically describing the first thought that comes into their head, and because it isnt imaginative, it actually turns humourous, well, maybe novel the first few times, but when every kid writes like this it is just not clever writing?
I get your point, but I think it's an unfair assessment without knowing the context of these quotes and the assignment the students faced.

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post #17 of 22
4/11/10 at 8:44pm
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Originally Posted by sho'nuff View Post
heck, i can write like that too, "she was as heavy as a 345lb fat woman" . no? i actually dont think this is clever writing ( by the high schoolers) but more so that they couldnt find literative and eloquent ways to describe their points so they resort to basically describing the first thought that comes into their head, and because it isnt imaginative, it actually turns humourous, well, maybe novel the first few times, but when every kid writes like this it is just not clever writing?
Look. the point was to create funny analogies, the kids for the most part, succeeded.
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She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. -Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
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Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
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post #18 of 22
4/12/10 at 5:02pm
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Look. the point was to create funny analogies, the kids for the most part, succeeded.


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That last one killed me.
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post #19 of 22
4/12/10 at 9:32pm
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That last one killed me.

+1. Very clever.
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post #20 of 22
4/13/10 at 12:18am
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Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
this goes beyond funny into effing geniusssss
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Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. -Jerry Pannullo, Kensington
this one is on the next level too, like ass hole who makes you hold the elevator for him
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post #21 of 22
4/13/10 at 8:58am
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this is nowhere near as funny now that you see its supposed to be funny... fail

I showed it to my grandmother and she thought it was hilarious. Do you know how hard it is to make a 93 year old in hospice laugh?
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post #22 of 22
4/15/10 at 5:23am
Quite funny. However,

In bed she was a Ferrari... metaphor
In bed she was like a Ferrari.... simile
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