Congress’s new piece of legislation, NOPEC, is not only a piece of tortured, garbled English, but also a useless, ridiculous piece of “show” legislation
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O.J. Mayo denies taking money while an amateur, but at the close of the denail he drove off in a brand new Porsche Cayenne
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A sign with Chinese-translated English that proclaims a “saloon for hair” is an intriguing idea, but alas, there’s no truth in advertising–just bad English
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Every year, English teachers from across the country submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country.
Here are last year’s winners:
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. 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.
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Subvocalizing refers to the mental process when people write and “fill in the blanks” between thoughts, blanks that readers will not be able to fill in
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Is Roger Clements capable of telling the truth? Of course not. Witness the latest revelations about his sordid life-style
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