Hyperbole

[Niko Bellic]

hy·per·bo·le

NOUN:

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.


Example:
http://thephora.net/forum/showpost.php?p=173744&postcount=4
This is called a distinction without a difference. Let's use a microscope to split those hairs a little finer.

Also, this is a South African journalist. What's her opinion on the current state of S. Africa? I'd bet money she thinks it's all sunshine and lolipops now that the evil racists aren't in charge anymore.


I propose a hyperbole contest, with up to 4 participants. The topic will be determined by mutual consent of the participants, but is largely irrelevant, so long as it lends itself to hyperbolic expressions. The participants don't necessarily have to agree with the opinion that they are arguing, and it doesn't matter who wins the debate on the subject matter. After a pre-determined time for the "debate" to take place, the winner will be chosen by a public poll posted in a different thread. Someone could lose the debate, but win the contest for best hyperbolization.

It could be fun. Anyone interested?:bitchfight: :)

[Anarch]

Il Ragno wins.

[Niko Bellic]

Il Ragno wins.

Possibly, but it would be fun to read.:)

[Anti Social]

I swear to god, hyperbole is the worst thing in the world.

[Jimbo Gomez]

This is without a doubt the dumbest idea you have ever posted on the internet.

[Jake Featherston]

This thread is very boring; it made me want to tear my eyeballs out! And who is this Ugly American to be posting such tripe? He sounds like some sort of Osama bin-Laden type of character to me.

[Ahknaton]

You guys have got be the most stupid, low-IQ, illerate chumps on the entire Internet (or off it). Don't you have even the most basic reading comprehension skills necessary to understand that the competition hasn't started yet?
I propose a hyperbole contest, with up to 4 participants. The topic will be determined by mutual consent of the participants, but is largely irrelevant, so long as it lends itself to hyperbolic expressions.
I swear to God, I could plug a network cable into a potato and connect it to the Internet and it would post more intelligent responses than the ones here. It doesn't matter, because it will be a million years before anyone gets around to organising this hyperbole contest anyway.

[Jake Featherston]

You guys have got be the most stupid, low-IQ, illerate chumps on the entire Internet (or off it). Don't you have even the most basic reading comprehension skills necessary to understand that the competition hasn't started yet?

I swear to God, I could plug a network cable into a potato and connect it to the Internet and it would post more intelligent responses than the ones here. It doesn't matter, because it will be a million years before anyone gets around to organising this hyperbole contest anyway.

I've literally got trillions of things more important to do this hour than pay any attention to your ignorant ramblings; it is clear to all mankind that your opinions are among the very least informed since the dawn of time.

[Jimbo Gomez]

You illiterate idiots have been bickering for months now without being able to suggest even the simplest of topic, so here is one:

beer: is it best from the bottle or as draught from the keg?

I know all of you together share three somewhat damaged braincells, but try to spend the two seconds of attention you have in you on this topic of earthshattering importance.

[Geist]

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

=Hyperbole
by
James Ramsey Ullman, "A Boy and a Man"