{"id":4799,"date":"2007-08-25T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T13:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belief.hazelcafe.com\/?1453"},"modified":"2007-08-25T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T13:41:11","slug":"reasons-why-english-teachers-die-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belief.hazelcafe.com\/?p=4799","title":{"rendered":"Reasons why English teachers die young?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got this from somewhere&#8230; while doing a super-duhz-search for deep dark secrets&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reasons why English teachers die young:<\/p>\n<p>Actual(!) Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays<\/p>\n<p>1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.<br \/>2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.<br \/>3. 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.<br \/>4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.<br \/>5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.<br \/>6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.<br \/>7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.<br \/>8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife&#039;s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.<br \/>9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn&#039;t.<br \/>10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.<br \/>11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you&#039;re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.<br \/>12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.<br \/>13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.<br \/>14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two<br \/>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.<br \/>15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan&#039;s teeth.<br \/>16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.<br \/>17. He fell for her like his heart wa s a mob informant and she was the East River.<br \/>18. 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<br \/>shut.<br \/>19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.<br \/>20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.<br \/>21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.<br \/>22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.<br \/>23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.<br \/>24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.<br \/>25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.<br \/>26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.<br \/>27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.<br \/>28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Ok I haven&#039;t read finish yet.. post first. lol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got this from somewhere&#8230; while doing a super-duhz-search for deep dark secrets&#8230; Reasons why English teachers die young: Actual(!) Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays 1. 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