Senseless Hyperbole

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::slight_smile:

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

-:smiley:

-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.