# Is there a Federal law that every sentence needs maximal snark and hyperbole? (Re: greenslime1951) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2012, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-federal-law-that-every-sentence-needs-maximal-snark-and-hyperbole-re-greenslime1951/631456 "2012-08-14T10:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-federal-law-that-every-sentence-needs-maximal-snark-and-hyperbole-re-greenslime1951/631456/1 "2012-08-14T10:50:07Z")
First of all, I don’t think there is such a law – I would have posted in GQ if unsure. Instead the thread title is intended as a parody of the slimy prose we get from **greenslime1951**. Second, I come here not to condemn the Green Slime, but to express my gratitude! I often read my own posts a day after I wrote them and think “What a pretentious hyperbolic sanctimonious asshole that **septimus** is!” I no longer have to be worried about being called on it. My posts almost qualify as calm and intellectual compared with those of **greenslime1951**. Use the Find Posts by This Idiot function and pick one at random and you’ll see what I mean. This one had me spitting out my coffee in laughter: > [@"Corporation"="consummate evil"; how can a corporation be a person?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporation-consummate-evil-how-can-a-corporation-be-a-person/630987/97): > > Please…leave that apostrophe out of “its” used as a possessive…please… Although he and I often disagree, the poster who wrote _it’s_ as an accidental homophonic typo has forgotten more English grammar than you ever knew, Slime. And I say that even knowing you claim to be an English teacher. What made me sputter with laughter is that your condescending grammar rebuke itself contained misuse of the ellipsis! (Refer to the _Why are Dopers so pedantic?_ thread if you don’t know why, you … English teacher! 😃 ) Here’s another one that made me laugh: > [@Is it really necessary to portray the election of the opposing candidate as the end of humanity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-necessary-to-portray-the-election-of-the-opposing-candidate-as-the-end-of-humanity/631121/35): > > This, like most of your posts, is unhelpful hyperbole. Like it or not, the Republicans are part of the political landscape. Demonizing and insulting them isn’t likely to produce constructive dialogue… This from the Slime who thinks anyone who wants Buffett to pay as much tax as his secretary automatically thinks all rich people are evil. :smack: Even his thread titles are amazing: _“Why does everyone blame GWB for everything?”_ Wasn’t it Abe Lincoln who once said [QUOTE=Abraham Lincoln?] "GWB may anger all the people some of the time; he may even anger some of the people all the time; but he can’t anger all of the people all the time. " [/QUOTE] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-federal-law-that-every-sentence-needs-maximal-snark-and-hyperbole-re-greenslime1951/631456)._