Please join me in donating to the American Red Cross (1-800-HELP-NOW) for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Every natural disaster seems to trigger a corresponding surge in the use of “literally”: search Yahoo! News for “hurricane katrina literally”
For example:
In New Orleans, where I spent the day, it is literally a sea of inhumanity.
Literally and figuratively, I think […]
Sydney Confidential
Sydney party girl Bessie Bardot has every reason to describe an e-mail of photos of herself in a bisexual orgy as “malicious assault” on her privacy, but she might take heart in knowing Sydney has seen the photos all before - literally.
The pictures, which have been doing the rounds for at least three years, […]
Chappelle’s Show writer Chris Brennan talking about the new season’s skits, in Time magazine:
Dave Speaks (TIME.com)
They’re really, really funny. And I’d be confident showing them to anyone on Earth. Literally — Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence, Richard Pryor.
This is a weird one. On the one hand, you could take it to mean […]
Baseball Perspectives (MLB.com)
Division races are literally won in September, at best coming down to the first weekend of October. That’s when the magic number hits zero, and that’s the only time a team can really say it’s in control of its division.
I can’t decide if this is technically incorrect, but it is most definitely unecessary. […]
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