Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Blogger Don'ts   [David Freddoso]

Literally. "The." "Best." "Blog." "Cliche." "Collection." EVER??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

A sample:

Literally: The word literally is literally being drug in the street and shot every five minutes. It has literally been corrupted worse than William Jefferson (D-La). It has literally gotten up at 11:00 PM, half an hour before it went to bed the night before, ate cold poison for breakfast, licked the highway clean with its tongue, worked 28 hours at mill, and paid the miller for permission to work, and when it got home, its father beat it to death with a broken glass bottle and danced about on its grave. I literally need people to stop using literally as if it literally is the word figuratively or virtually the same as virtually. That is, quite literally, Enough. Of. That.

Single. Word. Sentences.: We. Have. Got. To. Stop. Doing. This. Sure. we. like. doing. it. Yes. I. can. hear. the. emphasis. in. my head. But. for. goodness. sake. literally. everyone. is. doing. it. Talking. thus. is. sure. to. leave. us. breathless. It's. time. to. quit. while. we. are. ahead. We. don't. need. period. gate.

Update. From. A. Reader:

I couldn't help reading that without thinking that someone has finally discovered a text-based way to emulate William Shatner's voice.  Hopefully Jonah won't add this method of abusing non-trekies to his already extensive toolbox.

Another:

I was driving on I-95 through South Carolina Sunday, and saw a big, flashy blue and red Romney '08 sign with the slogan: Strong. New. Leadership.

One of many, many reasons why I'm a Thompson supporter (in Georgia, not SC).

01/16 03:32 PMShare