Best analogies ever?

Bill Gross put up a list of the best student analogies from an Annual English Teacher’s conference. Among them:

The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law George. But unlike George, this plan just might work.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

And then there’s this little gem that evoked a flood of nostalgia (and disappointment) from the time I won second place in logic and reasoning at the 8th grade county math olympics:

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the son of the guy who got first place.

(h/t: Tyler Cowen)