Don't you just love a similie.....

[Giles]

Well, I do.

I was chatting to a friend earlier today and I was bitching about how much the mooring fee's were at one of our local harbours. He agreed with the following.

Yeah they charge like a wounded Rhino.....

Brilliant....

[mclaincausey]

Good one. Then there are ones that don’t make sense yet somehow have staying power, like

He was drunk as a skunk!

Are skunks known for being tipsy?

[Matt]

There’s a joke there about spraying whilst drunk but I’ll leave it be.

[Oaktavia]

This post is deleted!

[Bums_Fan]

Heard this reference today. “Are you chicken involved or pig committed?” The breakfast plate example of eggs and bacon - the chicken only contributed eggs to your breakfast plate, but the pig really committed!

[Matt]

More of a metaphor but I like it.

[Bums_Fan]

You are right. I re-read the title of the thread more closely and see that my post missed the intent. Definitely not a simile. But it did make me SMILE.

[Matt]

It was a semantical oversight, I think the intent was fine.

[steelworker]

Talk that dirty talk @Matt

[Matt]

I am a cunning linguist.

[mikebarhoot]

well thats just ‘dry as a popcorn fart’.

[steelworker]

Sore? Im stiffer than a wedding dick

[Matt]

These aren’t mine, random Reddit gems…

its warmer than two rats fucking in a wool sock in here!

my car runs like a striped-assed monkey.

[IH-GARY]

Shaking like a shitting dog

[Ross]

I remember watching an Episode of the Hairy Bikers a number of years ago where they described some sort of dessert they were making as "Smoother than an estate agent's brochure" and it's really tickled me ever since

[Brian]

my father in law would always say when asked how he was doing
flat out like a lizard drinking

[Matt]

[mclaincausey]

West Side Story vibes

[popvulture]

One of my faves was, if I recall correctly, Ron Wood talking about Rod Stewart being cheap.

"Rod's tight as two coats of paint."

[mclaincausey]

What’s a meta for?

“A simile is, like, a metaphor.”
—Stephen Wright

Just thought of a favorite from the literary realm, the opening line of Neuromancer by William Gibson (an Iron Heart fan, I should note):

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

(Not gonna fight anyone about the absence of “like/as”). Talk about a great noir opening that stands the test of time even as though its original intent is dated to a very specific, obsolete technology that younger readers may not understand.