Winners of the

"Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay"

contest.

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• ...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
  of those 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. (Joseph Romm,
  Washington)
• She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used
  to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the
  door open again. (Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station)
• The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
  bowling ball wouldn't. (Russell Beland, Springfield)
• McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag
  filled with vegetable soup. (Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring)
• From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie,
  surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and
  "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30. (Roy Ashley,
  Washington)
• Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. (Chuck
  Smith, Woodbridge)
• Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the
  center.(Russell Beland, Springfield)
• Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. (Unknown)
• He was as tall as a 6' 3" tree. (Jack Bross, Chevy Chase)
• The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
  fry them in hot grease.(Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring)
• Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a
  movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like
  "Second Tall Man." (Russell Beland, Springfield)
• 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 Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. (Jennifer Hart,
  Arlington)
• The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr.
  on a Dr. Pepper can. (Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.)
• They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
  that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth (Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.)
• John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
  also never met. (Russell Beland, Springfield)
• The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin
  sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a
  play. (Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria)
• His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
  underpants in a dryer without Cling Free (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)
• The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.