Archive for March, 2006

literally kicks the bucket

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

From an Amazon.com review of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World:
Kramer, who is better known for socially conscious, serious cinema (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?), is in a mood for broad comic characterization, and some of his jokes are so intentionally obvious (Durante literally kicks a bucket when he dies), they’d have a place […]

literally a doll house

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

This ad is from a real estate magazine in Augusta, Georgia. It announces, “This Heath Street cottage is a literal doll house.” Maybe it’s just me, but I think $60k is a little steep for a doll house. Star-bellied Sneetches, indeed.

The Sneetches and Other Stories

literally slice the fourth amendment in half

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

4th amendment shipping tape
You can put this shipping tape on your packages and your airplane luggage. Every time I fly, my luggage gets a card in it telling me how “for my protection” they have searched it.
Now, when they open my luggage, they will have to literally slice the 4th amendment in half in order […]

literally self-referential

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

On The Colbert Report, guest Andrew Sullivan defined the word ‘blog’ as, “literally a web log“:
Colbert: So edumacate me here: A blog is what? I know the kids do it, I hear it all the time with, like, iPod, I hear those two terms thrown around a lot.
Sullivan: It’s almost like you have truth that […]