Wiener Dog (Ridiculous SIMILES)

[kitoba]

First player posts a ridiculous SIMILE.

Second player interprets it, and sets a new one.

EX:

PLAYER 1: He's like a wiener dog at a hot dog roast...

PLAYER 2: ...not sure if he's the guest or the entree!

Got it?

She's like a skunk in a well...

[balthazar]

...She knows her situation stinks, but she's not sure if she's the one who caused it or not.

It's like finding Godzilla in your fridge...

[drachefly]

The competition between reasons for disbelief is so fierce.

This is a metaphor game where most people are posting similes...

[kitoba]

This is a metaphor game where most people are posting similes...

[OOG] Please note that while all similes ARE metaphors, a simple statement of the unadorned truth is not, even if it has the same form as a metaphor...
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-is ... nd-simile/
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*grumbles and goes off to change the game name*

[drachefly]

Okay, fine. Even though I was using this thread as a metaphor for whatever it was we were talking about...

This is like a bureaucracy run by an infinite number of monkeys...

[AxelFendersson]

[OOG]

...all similes ARE metaphors ... http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-is ... nd-simile/

Odd. That article disagrees with every other source I've read on the subject, which states that although both metaphor and simile are types of analogy, they are distinct from each other. A quick search suggests that is also the position of the definitions in Merriam-webster and Chambers' Dictionaries, and of the Wikipedia article on the subject.
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[kitoba]

Odd. That article disagrees with every other source I've read on the subject, which states that although both metaphor and simile are types of analogy, they are distinct from each other. A quick search suggests that is also the position of the definitions in Merriam-webster and Chambers' Dictionaries, and of the Wikipedia article on the subject.

Yes, that might matter had this thread ever incorrectly referenced "metaphors" but since it is now and has always been correctly about SIMILES there is nothing to see here. Move along citizen!

This is like a bureaucracy run by an infinite number of monkeys...

...it takes an immensely long period time to get anything of value accomplished.

This is like a glass of water balanced on the head of an electric eel...

[hexnut]

This is like a glass of water balanced on the head of an electric eel...

All useful properties of insulation and containment are nullified by immersion in electrified water.

It's like a six-legged wombat in a bauxite smelter...

[drachefly]

... odd and out of place enough that it might actually keep them from getting started.

It's like tacking a pistol onto the side of the USS New Jersey...

[CCC]

...your argument really doesn't add anything meaningful.

It was like a polar bear standing on a record player...

[hexnut]

...spinning rapidly, but always pointing south!

It's sort of like Quetzalcoatl wearing a feathered boa...

[kitoba]

...it's goes from the divine to the ridiculous.

It's kind of like water-skiing in Alaska....

[CCC]

...if you stop moving, you freeze.

It's like a monkey playing a fiddle...

[Dodger77]

You just want to cover your ears and run away.

It's like reviving a game on the brink of shuffling off into oblivion...