Literally, A Web Log

Reader Jenny Glazer submitted the following gem from today’s New York Times:
B&B’s in Burgundy’s Vineyards (New York Times)
My wine adviser, Don (who has taken a professional wine course and doubles as my husband), had taken me there on a quest: to try to drink in, literally, the French winemaking experience.
It is not possible to literally […]

Seen in the AJC, 10.19.05 (”E-Rate Oversight Criticized”):
One expert said the most likely opportunity for E-rate reform will occur during a rule-making review that the FCC announced in June.
“Literally, everything is on the table,” said Peter Kaplan, regulatory affairs director for Funds for Learning, an E-rate consulting company.
If Atlanta Public Schools spent $59 million on […]

Reader Joy Nyenhuis writes:
Hey literally weblog people! I came across an amusing use of “literally”. A passage from William Davis’s Lincoln’s Men about how Civil War troops regarded Lincoln as a father:
In the regiments of the United States Colored Troops,
to which he had literally given birth, there was no
doubt Lincoln sat at the head of […]

You might think it’s impossible to literally beat a website, but somehow El Serpento pulls it off.
Okay, technically he is beating a representation of a website, but I’ll declare it a correct use of literally (only because I am afraid of El Serpento and do not want this website to be on his hit-list).

El Serpento […]

Saturday Night Live’s Amy Poehler had a nice use of “literally” last weekend:
It was announced today that Paris Hilton broke off her engagement to Paris Latsis. Insiders say she may be involved with a record producer. You can trust these insiders because they have literally been inside her.
For your viewing pleasure, here is a video:

Play […]