Literally, A Web Log

Jack Danyells created this funny video about the misuse of “literally”:

Prepare to cringe… this is one correct usage of ‘literally’ that isn’t for the faint of heart:
Villanova basketball star Allan Ray had his eyeball literally poked out of its socket by an opposing player in a recent game.
Yeesh!
Apparently the medical term for having one’s eye literally poked out of the socket is “globe luxation.” And […]

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 […]

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 […]

S. Yuhan submitted the following:
Mad About You (The Washington Post)
As lawmakers raced between the chamber and Frist’s office, reporters surrounded Frist chief of staff Eric Ueland. “It was a nonstop rant to build up to a political stunt!” Ueland said of Reid. As he leveled these charges, Ueland turned in a 360-degree circle so that […]