[deertick1]

Man I was just thinking about this last night. I recall an assignent in middle school where I had to write a poem with a simile in it (among ither literary devices) I lost points because there was no simile. When I went to the teacher and told her "there is a simile : 'the cat fell in much the same way as a boulder' " (or something to that effect)

I was told similes have to have the word 'like' or 'as' in them. Which is just not true but has become such a common hueristic that even English teachers think its the definition of a simile. sigh

I totally did that on purposes though cause I wanted to see if she would dock me a point for that. I was such a little prick.

[BeFlatXIII]

Being a prick to clueless teachers was a perverse joy of mine in my K–12 years. I enjoyed coming up with the most galaxy-brained solutions to assignments.

[mbrodersen]

Same. However I went too far. A philosophy teacher left the class room, and refused to continue teaching my class, after I politely started arguing against her reasoning and showing counter examples. They had to find another teacher to take over the class.