grate writing

Sherry Gottlieb's humor column quoted "Thog's Masterclass" (David Langford's fanzine Ansible's collection of ungreat writing) with this example of metaphor abuse:

  'I had too much altar boy in me to seize the bitch goddess of success by her ponytail and bugger the Zeitgeist with my throbbing baguette.' (James Walcott, Lucking Out, 2011)

Sometimes you just have to cast your eyes down (squish) and humbly admit, "I could not write that in a million years."

Joe