...You'd think that would mean our kids are pretty damn smart, right?!Well... There's this website that looks at analogies that real high schoolers in the area have included in their papers. [By area, I mean the DMV... With many coming from right here in NoVA.]
Here are some of my favorites:
- Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other Sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. [Washington]
- His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. [Woodbridge]
- Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. [Woodbridge]
- Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut. [Arlington]
- She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. [Arlington]
- The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. [Arlington]
....Okay... So maybe this was actually a contest for who can create some bad analogies, so maybe they're actually smart kids, who have a bit of humor, too... Or... We're just a bunch of class clowns who somehow pull off the "smart" label.
I think I know the truth, but I'll stick with saying we're a fabulously smart bunch here in the DMV.
love,
elizabethany
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