Do you have some nutty analogies you use a lot that you could share? (Are you from the South?!) Do you know any gems like:
Nuttier than a squirrel’s breakfast
Greener than the pee-stains in an Irishman’s underpants
Grinning like a mule eating garlic
Harder than Chinese algebra
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
She’s so ugly she looks like someone set fire to her face and beat the flames out with a shovel.
And if anyone here knows of the British politician Ann Widdecombe, you’ll understand what I mean. If you don’t here’s a pic I knocked up earlier : http://porkypies.tripod.com/widdecombe.jpg