Words are hard

By Anonymous - 27/01/2013 18:50 - United States - Temperance

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Today, I had to slowly explain to my son that an "analogy" is a literary device, not a genre of porn. FML
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lostcrazydiamond 10

How old was your son that he didn't know what an analogy was, but he watches ****?

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mpj13 8

Sounds like a pain in the ass

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finnrambo 13

if that was a category what did he possibly think would be in it? old men in white lab coats staring at a chicks ass saying "hmmm fine specimen here"?

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perdix 29

Aren't literary devices what that 50 Shades dude used on that poor girl? An analogy that ran on D-batteries?

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acerima 11

Any wonder what's wrong with today's youth? YDI OP

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dectivebobby 6

how does op deserve it? just because her son didn't know something? that's not really her fault

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VooDooCarrie91 19

#23, OP is a male..

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micahdunk 13

Some people just have really dirty minds...it happens.

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buckdharma 37

Now Johnny, "analogy" is a literary device, and **** is a "literal", vice. Got it? good.

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ulissey_fml 22

After his brush with literature, a hole world opened in front of him.

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RedPillSucks 31

Talk about being thrust into the literary hole!

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Ja777 9

My English major self is torn between despairing for humanity and wishing that this guy had been in one of my English classes, so I could have been there to hear his reaction when someone mentioned an analogy...

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1percent 7

I heard the job market is quite optimistic for English majors these days.

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Steve95401 49

And I always thought Uranus referred to someone else's ass.

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