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These potato chips contain surreal ingredients.
One of the soup companies advertises their soup as being made with “farm-grown vegetables”. It makes me happy, because I was worried they were going around at night and stealing them from people’s gardens.
That matador was feta-lly killed actually. Ya’ see, there was this cheese delivery truck that swerved a bit too much and … 
(well, SOMEone had to say it)
Actually, I think they mean as opposed to paid actors. Flo for instance has hardly a celebrity before the Progressive ads, but I doubt the actor ever actually sold insurance.
Not a great example, of course - normally you see that in testimonial type ads, so they are telling you it isn’t someone playing a role (I don’t know if the spokefolks get paid or not).
Many post-catastrophe interviews involve folks who weren’t there when it happened. We hear from rescue workers, other journalists, relatives who rushed to the scene, and even government officials in a faraway capital city.
This one’s debatable: in some dictionaries it retains the original meaning of “cause death by electricity”; in others (and arguably in common usage in some places) it can mean “to cause either death or serious injury by means of electricity”. Hence, news items like so:
He might have only been mostly dead. As that real-life documentary, The Princess Bride, has taught me, that’s not fatal.
He died in 1988 again?! When did he die the first time?
If a person is identified as a survivor of a catastrophe I think that’s a pretty clear indicator that the person was present during the course of the catastrophe.
In this case, “again” means “exactly as in the previous sentence”. Neither Cáceres nor Campeño died on the arena itself, but both died of wounds sustained there.
He was killed exactly as he was killed in the previous sentence?! 
He died a few years before, but since he just died, but didn’t fatally die, he was able to continue bullfighting.
I’ve run into the same thing with “drowned” - I’ve seen it (rarely) be used as, “Overcome by water (but survived)!” Confusing.
(The best electrical warning sign I’ve seen: “WARNING! DANGER!!! Not only will this kill you, but it will hurt the entire time you’re dying!”)
But it does require a miracle! 
I’d read that as saying the pre-Columbian Peruvians didn’t think they were real, either. Like us depicting the gods in Disney’s Hercules.
Let’s not go down this road…
Not necessarily. Some people do survive electrocution, although if it was in the context of capital punishment, no, he wouldn’t have.
Or creating them in labs, yanno?
When I took Spanish I in high school, I remember a phrase that translated literally to “temporarily dead”. We all had a good laugh about that, and then the teacher said that the explanation for that would have to wait until Spanish II, which I didn’t take.
Heh, I was thinking “these Peruvian idols depict imaginary gods … but these Mexican idols, they depict real gods.”