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"My sister uses so much makeup ...
  • "she broke a chisel trying to get it off last night!"
          Johnny, from Prescott Middle School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

  • "she bought out Mary Kay just to have enough makeup for one day!"
          Andrea, from somewhere in South Dakota

  • "Marilyn Manson freaked out when he saw her!"
          Nizam, from Bukit Panjang Gov't H. S., Singapore

  • "when she takes it off, my mom doesn't recognize her."
          Ashley, from Knoxville, Tennessee

  • "that I haven't seen her real face for years ..." Nivedita

  • "when she smiles her cheeks fall off." Ed

  • "by the time she gets it all on, it's time to take it off!" Josh W.

  • "she weighs 50 pounds more when she's done!" Alex

  • "at night she has to get the paint scraper to take it off." Beth Atkins

  • "when she takes it off she loses 30 pounds!" Benny H.

  • "she looks like my grandmother!"
          Shireen, from Singapore






"My teacher is so old ...
  • " they've already nailed the coffin shut".
          Michelle S., from Woodbridge, Virginia, USA

  • "she gets a seniors discount at the nursing home!"
          Ashley, from Knoxville, Tennessee

  • "she's mentioned in the Old Testament." Kaysie O'Brien

  • "she taught cave men to start a fire." Aaron H.

  • "she claims that she invented the question mark!" Jacob Smith

  • "we looked up the word 'ancient', and there was full definition with her name and a big picture of her smiling..."
         Mallory, from Dexter, Missouri

  • "she knows how to speak cave-man language!"
          Meg, Shepaug Valley School, Roxbury USA





"My dog is so ugly ...
  • "We had to pay the fleas to live on him!"
          Demi & Cynthia, from Larose Middle School, in Larose, Louisiana, USA

  • "he has to sneak up on his dish to eat".
          Ivan, from Buffalo, NY, USA

  • "we have to pay people to pet it" Bobby W.

  • "the fire hydrants disguise themselves!" Cara K.

  • "you have to put a bag over him to pet him!" Aaron Hale

  • "fleas won't even live on him!" Benny H.

  • "I have to tie a pork chop around his neck to get other dogs to play with him!" Ashley Clarke

  • "he only has cat friends!"
          Justin, from Dexter, Missouri [Grand Prize Winner]



"The town where I grew up is so isolated ...
  • "it makes ghost towns look popular"
          Jasmine, from Shannon Elementary School, in Pinole, California, USA

  • "our theatre is still waiting to get Charlie Chaplin movies..."
          Logan, from Nelson, BC, Canada

  • "Even I don't know where it is!"
          Jessica, from St. Pete's School in Mansfield, USA

  • "the only friend I had was a duck."
          Britni, from Larose Middle School, in Larose, Louisiana, USA

  • "I was the only one there."
          Mrs. Jonas' 2nd Period class, T.C. Marsh M. S., Dallas, Texas, USA

  • "we just recently got news of this 'new fangled' technology called VCRs."
          Cameron, from
        Bukit Panjang Gov't. H. S., Singapore

  • "it takes three days just to get to the grocery store!" Ashley Nichols




More examples of hyperbole:
  • "Your sister's so skinny, she has to run around in the shower to get wet"
          Cliff, from Valley View Elementary School, in Richmond, California, USA

  • "Saskatchewan is so flat, you can see your dog run away for 4 days!"
          Jenna, from Olympic Heights School, Calgary

  • "It was so cold, even the polar bears were wearing jackets."
          Elizabeth, from Covington, USA

  • "The Eiffel Tower is so big, when I looked up I nearly got whiplashed!"
          Kerri, from Dexter, Missouri




Grand Prize Winner:
Justin, from T. S. Hill Middle School, in Dexter, Missouri, USA
"My dog is so ugly, he only has cat friends!"



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