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<strong>NoZe</strong> Brotherhood<br />

weekly forecast<br />

5<br />

Before you make plans,<br />

check out the forecast!<br />

Wednesday<br />

Scattered sunshine with a<br />

37% chance of Mongolian<br />

invasion.<br />

Thursday<br />

Heavy showers <strong>and</strong> total<br />

annihilation of the human<br />

race by unforeseen causes.<br />

Friday<br />

7% chance of second<br />

coming, 93% chance of<br />

miscalculated odds.<br />

Saturday<br />

Clear, ideal for kite flying<br />

<strong>and</strong> picnicking.<br />

Sunday<br />

Scattered pop-corn showers.<br />

Monday<br />

37% of British invasion,<br />

establishing an<br />

imperialistic state.<br />

Similes are like<br />

diamonds from heaven<br />

By: Dr. Tom Hanks, above-average English professor<br />

Good day! Greetings students, fellow<br />

faculty <strong>and</strong> common riff-raff. Today, I’ll<br />

be treating you to a piece as timeless<br />

as the rivers that suckled our early<br />

civilizations. I’m addressing, specifically,<br />

the importance of similes in everyday<br />

use.<br />

Similes are as crucial to successful<br />

conversation as anti-Semitism is to the<br />

Palestinian cause. <strong>The</strong>ir value is like<br />

Baylor’s immeasurable debt. Some claim<br />

erroneously that similes are like metaphors.<br />

Not so! Similes are far more<br />

striking, much like lightning during a hot<br />

summer’s night. Sometimes when a metaphor<br />

is utilized to make a comparison,<br />

it’s as useless as a three-legged dog<br />

at the racetrack. Similes are always effective, like the whiskey<br />

I occasionally put into my coffee to sooth my nerves.<br />

Similes also trounce metaphors in their street cred. Ever<br />

since the movie Clueless, everyone can, like, find a way to introduce<br />

a simile into conversation. Metaphors are like ice-cream sundaes,<br />

nice to think about but sticky in reality. Not only that, but<br />

a conversation without similes is as lifeless as immigration reform.<br />

In fact, similes are as important to democracy <strong>and</strong> free-thinking<br />

as football is to Baylor. A people without it are like a sunny day<br />

without warmth. Conversations are left as cold as Larry Chonko’s<br />

heart when grading business projects.<br />

So, I encourage you all to learn the importance of similes,<br />

just like the drunken frat boy to your left learned the legal<br />

system, by experience. Enjoy similes like I enjoy my job: every<br />

day!

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