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The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. -Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington

i cant tell if some of the people are being clever or are just really stupid.

Some of those were really bad, some were funny, and some were hilariously bad.

I liked it.

"McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup"

LOL

My favorites:

"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

"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." -John Kammer, Herndon

"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

Being a Science major, this is my favourite one:

"She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef." -Brian Broadus, Charlottesville

Some of them are surely kids being smart asses.

I know I use to write stuff like that to piss off my teachers.

"The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant."

That one had my imagination going for awhile.

"He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River." -Brian Broadus, Charlottesville

best one right there; I lol'd like the lol emoticon.

These are awesome! Totally creative and many of them work extremely well. Theres too much snobbery in writing.