Coin a phrase...

Do you love playing with language? Join me in creating new phrases, metaphors, words, similes, slogans, etc. Periodically, I'll post a tired old phrase and you send me a fresh, new phrase that has the 'same' meaning. Or, I'll send you a description that begs for a new word and you send me a possible new word. Who knows? Maybe your new phrase or word will catch on. Maybe the phrase you coin will bring you fame and coin!

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I have been a elementary school teacher and a computer programmer. Now I am a doctoral student in cognitive science studying the brainwaves of the 'aha' moment and how two concepts combine to make a new concept. Experiencing the 'aha' moment gives me a sense of wonder and awe. As long as I can remember I have always been trying to feel that wonder and awe so I constantly try to think 'outside the box' and see 'more than is there.' My puzzles and stories reflect this.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Need Clever New Similes

I am conducting an experiment that measures brain waves (EEG) as people hear clever and trivial similes. It is easy to create trivial similes ("happy as bee on a flower"). It is difficult to create clever ones ("happy as a snail with a motor").

Please send in new similes for any adjective you want ("exciting", "complicated", "silly", etc.). I might just use them in my brain wave experiment that tries to pinpoint how the brain responds to something clever (a mini 'aha' moment) as opposed to something obvious. (This experiment is being conducted at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.)

Similes can be in different forms. Maybe you have another form that is your favorite. Here are two:

"as happy as a mosquito at a bloodbank"
"as difficult as herding cats"

29 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

As happy as a hippopotamus that's had liposuction

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

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5:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If I was a bee, would you be my honey?

10:30 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some of these are metaphors, also.

-As fly as a box of zippers.

-Holdin' it down like a paperweight.

-Shaking the house so hard, people call you the earthquake.

-I'm like an altoid. White, fresh, and curiously strong.

-I'm like a parking ticket. I've got fine written all over me. (Family Guy)

-I'm like powdered awesome, just add water.

-Like a good book in the library. Everyone wants to check me out.

-I'm so attractive, even the magnets are jealous.

-A tornado taught me to dance. For some reason, I'm really good at the Twist.

-I'm doctor recommended, and mother approved.

-I'm like a prescription. One dose, three times a day to maintain awesomeness.

I hope these help!

12:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hotter than an evil clown in a fur-lined box!

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

he had about as much personality as a rotting piece of drift wood

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Im rougher than my whiskers

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stand in my wake I hope that youre a swimmer

Im trapped in my own head like a brain cell (double entendre and simile)

Im bustin out like double Ds

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I pretty much have endless similes that rhyme but here are a few for you guys

8:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've played more fat women than a opera station,
I created a bigger buzz than michael j. fox playing operation,
i'm the topic of any awkward conversation, any odder i would live in water facing major global warming problem.

8:49 PM  
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balls out like a nudist.

I made him fall like autumn.

holding hands like we're playing texas holdem poker.

she's begging role play so i start pretending, her p****y is my piano and I'm john legend, then we "come" together like john lennon then her lips pucker like sour lemons.

Inside my anger is brewin like Abdul jab-bar,

get geared up like a pocket watch.

your on like a light switch turned off.

you're as tasteful as water... which is tasteless.

It's going down like syndrome,

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I'm as tall as a six foot one inch shrubbery,

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your as sweet as a lemon and as likable as having heart attack during sex........ with Whoopie Goldberg

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