Babylon 5 Similes, Metaphors and Analogies


  1. As hyperactive as a nude Centauri male in a rocking-chair testing factory.
  2. As mind-numbingly boring as a traditional Centauri talking about "the good old days of the Republic".
  3. As unusual as a Narn with no spots.
  4. His remarks were as pointed as a Minbari warrior's crest.
  5. "She was as mysterious as a Vorlon and her lips were the colour of G'Kar's eyes"
  6. As pointless as a Marcab pension fund.
  7. As pathetic as Lyta's call to her sysadmin about forgetting her "password".
  8. He was as excited as a Trekkie discovering B5 for the first time.
  9. As long-lived as a nameless extra going out in a Fury to "Check out that disturbance."
  10. As strange as a Vorlon fart.
  11. As much use as roller skates in hyperspace.
  12. As useless as a Minbari hairdresser.
  13. As popular as a Z'ha ha dum holiday resort.
  14. As complicated as Centauri contraceptives.
  15. [about email/newsgroup posts] Snipping and cutting like a Centauri hairdresser.
  16. As frustrated/bored as a B5er during the Long Wait.
  17. As annoying as an arguement with Ford Thaxton.
  18. As mysterious as Na'Toth's fate.
  19. As intelligible as a Vorlon convention.
  20. About as much use as a PPG against the Great Machine.
  21. (when you have a splitting headache) I feel like Sinclair after his interrogation.
  22. I needed that like I needed a hole in my mind.
  23. I'd trust _____ as much as I'd trust a psi-cop.
  24. About as much use as a PPG against an Icaran War Machine.
  25. About as much use as a Narn Heavy Cruiser against a Shadowship
  26. (for gloomy overcast days) I think I woke up on Narn
  27. Chucking a Londo (NOW!!!!!!)
  28. Chucking a G'Kar (MOLLARI!!!) (pretty much interchangeable with the above)
  29. Kosherizing (making someone get that "what the frag does that mean?" expression)


Contributors:

1:         Leece (leece@metapro.DIALix.oz.au)
2-5:     Kristi (k.ellinopoullos@microbio.su.oz.au)
6-7:     Scott Barkla (s.barkla@cosmos.curtin.edu.au)
8:         Possum Bits (pamela@wantree.com.au)
9:         Intensity (eng-amgs@jcu.edu.au)
10-13: Chris Hulley (CHulley@N175LIV1.telecom.com.au)
14-15: Tim Gollschewsky (citectjg@citec.qld.gov.au)
16-21:  TiTan (083285@bud.cc.swin.edu.au)
22-29:  Belegdel (t.nancarrow@gu.edu.au)


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