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literally a car wreck

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Leave it to The Soup to include not one but two literally references in a single show. Commenting on Paris Hilton’s latest high-profile mishap, host Joel McHale said:
In other car wreck news, four figurative car wrecks were in a literal car wreck outside a nightclub.

Play the Quicktime video (0.6MB, TMZ.com via The Soup)

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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 broke the dam

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

In a recent episode of South Park, Stan accidentally plows a boat into a beaver dam, flooding a nearby city. The South Park citizens set about laying blame, while victims of the flood fruitlessly wait for assistance. Everything is blamed for causing the flood: people driving SUVs, George Bush, global warming… even the “Crab People”.
Finally Stan […]

literally gave him the finger

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

The actual headline was “Suspect Sought In Robbery, Hand Mutilation. Woman Loses Finger In Struggle With Thief” but the weird news website Fark.com turned it into the following:
Elderly woman literally gives robber the finger
Technically she didn’t give him the finger, but I think this is quite appropriate.
Bravo, Fark.com.
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literally give the bird

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literally any sign of Christmas

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

From the inside jacket of The War on Christmas, a book that seeks to expose the vast liberal conspiracy against the holiday observed on December 25th:
Literally any sign of Christmas in public can now lead to complaints, litigation, angry protests, threats, and bruised feelings.
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