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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 relieved

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Kids today… they love the MTV. Even better than watching MTV is appearing on MTV — but you’ll have to do something outrageous to get noticed. Amelia decided that peeing her pants was a great way to exhibit her talents, and the producers of MTV’s Next were so impressed by her use of literally [...]

literally gave birth

Friday, October 14th, 2005

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 [...]