Of course, some of these are so cleverly, exquisitely bad that the writer probably did it on purpose. But then again, remembering papers that we graded back in the day, it is more than likely that these are unknowingly bad. Enjoy.
* Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
* He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.
* 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.
* The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.
* John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
* 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.
* The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
* The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
* Fishing is like waiting for something that does not happen very often.
* It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.
