Simile Challenge-- Go!

My friend Katie, web designer and aspiring hip hop artist, has a game where she yells out a word (often a verb but it can be almost anything) and then says "Simile Challenge--GO!" and then you are supposed to use the word in a simile. More often, she'll get someone to challange her.
"Hang out," someone might say, prompting Katie to yell, "We're gonna hang out like a sloppy kid's shirt tail!"
Since Katie began this game I have begun to notice similes that I like, and will list a few now.

E. B. White, Goodbye to Forty-Eighth Street
"In New York, a citizen is likely to keep on the move, shopping for the perfect arrangement of rooms and vistas, changing his habitation according to fortune, whim, and need. And in every place he abandons he leaves something vital, it seems to me, and starts his new life somewhat less encrusted like a lobster that has shed its skin and is for a time soft and vulnerable.

Tony Kushner On Pretentiousness
"Baking lasagna has long been my own personal paradigm for writing a play. A good play I think should always feel as though it's only barely been rescued from the brink of chaos, as though all the yummy nutritious ingredient you've thrown into it have almost-but-not-quite succeeded in overwhelming the design. A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might have just as easily have been; just as each slice of lasagna should stand tall while at the same time betray its entropic desire towards collapse, just as lasagna should seem to want to dissolve into meat and cheese stew, so you can marvel all the more at the culinary engineering magic that holds such entropy at bay, that keeps the unstackable firmly, but not too firmly, stacked."

Katie
"My rhymes are tight like Mother Teresa's vagina."

Somehow it always comes back to disgusting jokes about the sexuality of religious icons.