literally hold lives in their hands
February 10th, 2006 by Amber
From the web site of Atlanta podcaster Cup o’ Joe:
Those who have a lot of power and authority literally hold the lives of thousands, or even millions, of people in their hands.
Apologies to Joe, who is a friend of mine; but I’m going to have to see photographic evidence of these gargantuan hands of which he speaks.
Next, from another friend and fellow Atlanta blogger, The Muse:
I paid $30 to sweat my ass off last night. Literally.
Girl, whatchoo doin’ bloggin’? The ER is where you need to be!
Giant hands, melting asses… is there something in the water here in the ATL?
February 10th, 2006 at 12:49 am
Notice my skillful combination of the hand and ass theme in the image… thank you, thank you.
February 10th, 2006 at 12:50 am
Atlanta bloggers in the house!!!
February 10th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Very nicely done.
February 10th, 2006 at 1:03 am
You know what they say about a man with large hands…
(he wears large gloves)
February 10th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
I was going to say that my head literally exploded when I saw this post, but that would be wrong, wouldn’t it?
February 12th, 2006 at 11:44 am
Baby got back.
February 13th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
actually “literally sweating your ass off” makes pretty good sense. Melting the maximus is generally the lady’s exercisal (?) intent. Obviously she couldn’t sweat her ass through her pores, but in her context, “literally” is most reasonably interpreted to refer solely to the expression “i ____ed my ass off”, which is usually an obvious hyperbole, but in this case is only a mild exaggeration.
Therefore, “literally” adds value to the sentence. Literally4.