Oh, man! I just had a violent diarrhea episode in my britches. Enderw24, you owe me a new sphincter.
(I don’t know how to say this now, but I have never laughed out loud so much at a thread as I did at this one. ::Chief Wiggum:: Please, continue hyperboleing. Aww, continue…::/Chief Wiggum:
This thread is funny.
I’m kinda with the OP. I feel wrong posting ‘LOL’ if I did not in fact actually laugh out loud, and something has to be REALLY funny for me to force a chuckle out of me - even my favorite funny movies usually only get a smile out of me, except sometimes the first time I see them.
I don’t think hyperbole is bad by itself, but it seems the same forms of hyperbole show up so much that it’s becoming a cliche.
I think this thread has lost the thread (pun)
I think this thread is really funny (sarcasm, but you’d have to hear it spoken)
I think this thread is the funniest in the history of the Universe (exaggeration or hyperbole? - you decide)
I think this thread’s title ‘Senseless hyperbole’ is an tautology (OK, so I have a dictionary by my computer)
I think this thread’s title ‘Senseless hyperbole’ derives from baseball. See the pitcher throws a wild one high, which makes it a high-pitched-ball… (weird)
I think this thread has lost the thread (repetition)
I agree! I agree!
It’s just like the “pot? meet the kettle” shit. Argh! I always thought no one else was bothered by that pap. I can’t stand the “you owe me a new monitor” saying. I’d MUCH rather read “Gee, that was funny” than another “I just sprayed X onto my Y.” THAT is boring, reading the same stupid… stupid… THING over and over and over. Argh! I’m so irritated I can’t even post straight!
Sorry, gotta agree with the OP. If you’re gonna be hyperbolic, at least be original. “I just splurted Coke on my monitor” is, for me at least, a trite and boring image.
Suggested replacements for ‘That was so funny I just splurted a caffeine based substance over my computer’
-That was almost as funny as your Momma last night.
-Any funnier and you’d have to be paid!
-Hey Greebo, I’m laughing already!
-Ha!
-Hey, I was laughing so much I opened up a new portal to Hell. Your post has released many Demons onto the Earth. You owe me a new underworld!
-pfft, you’re a funny guy.
-ROFLSMIJWTBYIB
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-He He He… and stuff.
Thanks for reminding me that I needed more coffee.
Robin
Uh, glee? Did you read that dictionary?
tautology - needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word.
hyperbole - extravagant exaggeration.
If “Senseless Hyperbole” was a tautology, then all hyperbole would be considered sensless. If you read the definition of hyperbole, it does not state that it is senseless.
Based on this information, I think it is clear that this thread’s title is not a tautology.
But the idea of a tautology caused me to splooferate all over my monitor. As such, I believe you owe me a new one…
Heem
Perhaps he meant “palindrome”.
Oh, man. That one killed me.
In all seriousness, though, I also agree with the OP - I was even thinking of starting a thread about it once upon a time, until I saw something shiny.
I don’t necessarily mind hyperbole or any other specific grammatical construction, it’s just the whole “I sprayed X on my Y” thing is getting old. It’s like the whole “felching” thing. Nothing really wrong with it, it just got old.