Analogy Wednesday

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.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

Taken verbatim from a 1999 Washington Post contest. Full list here