Monday, April 05, 2010

A lazy blog post in which I try to gain in popularity by linking to something humorous that someone else discovered.

But at least I give credit.

Click here for some hilarious analogies, which I found through my Segullah friend, Andrea Rediske.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've read enough Bulwer-Lytton contest entries that to me these had the whiff of deliberate bad writing, so I did some Snopes snooping. Sure enough, the analogies are from a bad-writing contest the Washington Post did in 1995 called "Style Invitational." Here's a link to the Snopes article.

And here's a link with a full version of the WaPo article the analogies come from
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These are so funny. It definitely takes a special talent to write so badly on purpose.

Joey/Denny/Emma said...

Oh, I'm so disappointed these analogies weren't written by real high schoolers. I've read these before and think they are an absolute scream and always imagine 16-year-olds scratching their heads in English class, earnestly trying to come up with something. My favorites are surreal "Wheel of Fortune" and "He was as tall as a 6'3" tree." Oh well, now someday I can compare overwhelming disappointment to the feeling I had when I discovered bad high school analogies weren't really written by bad high schoolers but by grown up individualswho submitted their offerings to the 1995 Washington Post Style Invitational.

Andrea R said...

Now, if you want to see some TRULY bad writing, I can send you some of my Microbiology students' term papers...