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When Similes Go Bad ..... Constable Lightspeed came across a rotting corpse that resembles one of those zombies from Michael Jackson's Thriller, except that it was lying down and not performing the electric slide' . This issue's look at humour isn't going to give you wit or one-liners you can drop into a speech. Instead, it takes a humorous look at the use of simile and analogy, and gives some hilarious examples of what happens when people don't quite 'get' how to use them. Just to refresh your memory, a simile compares two things in order to develop a line of reasoning, and usually uses the words 'like' or 'as', e.g. 'My love is like a red, red rose' (Robbie Burns) or ' tough as leather' , or 'he eats like a pig'. An analogy does the same thing, but tends to be longer and explains a thought process, e.g. 'Knowledge is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself " (Samuel Johnson). Now that the English lesson is over, let's look at some more hilarious examples of ' When similes go bad:'
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