This is tangential to the Tropes page, but Car Talk's claim that the "worst analogies" come from high-school essays is false — they did come from the Washington Post, but were the results of open invitations by the paper for readers to send in deliberately "bad" (that is, skillfully written for comedy) analogies.
This is tangential to the Tropes page, but Car Talk's claim that the "worst analogies" come from high-school essays is false — they did come from the Washington Post, but were the results of open invitations by the paper for readers to send in deliberately "bad" (that is, skillfully written for comedy) analogies.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/why-english-teachers-die-young/
Edited by BabyBoo