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...the jockey kept a diary of the trip."
That bit of hyperbolic humor from comedian Henny Youngman.
The word hyperbole (and guess where hype comes from) has its origin in the Greek language, of course, and means excess or exaggeration.
It's considered a trope; in case anyone asks, a figure of speech that uses words in nonliteral ways, such as a metaphor.
"The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love."
Said Francis Bacon enlisting hyperbole about the subject itself.
Leave it to poet W. H. Auden to disprove Bacon's point:
"I'll love you 'Till China and Aftica meet. And the river jumps over the mountain. And the salmon sing in the street."
(The smart money on the street gave the relationship two weeks.)
"Hyperboles are for young men to use," Aristotle said. "They show vehemence of character, and this is why angry people use them more than other people."
Or, in the words of the great playwright and Roman philosopher Seneca, it "asserts the incredible in order to arrive at the credible."
In the hands of the masters, hyperbole can be memorable:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in "The Concord Hymn:"
"Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world."
And effective, as in Scottish philosopher David Hume's point from a "Treatise of Human Nature:"
"Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
Hyperbole, while effective in advertising, movie hype ("the performance of a lifetime") sometimes gets in the way of political discussions, where exaggeration on both sides prevent reasonable discourse.
Although, never in a million years, would we see such examples in here.
When I call you, my dear community members, the most respectful and insightful in the world, it is not hyperbole.
Merely opinion.
What is Hyperbole? poetry.org Take a look at an interesting article we found.
A Brief History of the English Language anglik.net Take a look at an interesting article we found.
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Without hyperbole, would we have politics, cable news, or teenagers?
Mr. P ....... You're only saying that because it is True ... Good of you to Notice tho', and to say so .......
Hyperballet N. exagerated dance (Sometimes done in front of the loo)
Diaperbole the exaggerated dance done when changing a diaper....y'alls know what I mean
Emerson's "Concord Hymn" {which many would be at a loss to remember the title} singlehandedly reminds us that hyperbole can be "comely in matters other than love." The impact of events put into play by the patriots and the founding fathers were every bit as impactful to learners in colonial times as were the events surrounding the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. That's just my opinion, but it will remain validated "until salmon sing in the street."
Oooooh....chinese people love their hyperboles...c'mon...look at my name "Spring Fragrance"....lol.....Here's a poem from the Eastern Han Dynasty 25-220 AD, explanation of italics in footnotes
On and on, going on and on,
away from you to live apart,
ten thousand li and more between us,
each at opposite ends of the sky.
The road I travel is steep and long;
who knows when we meet again?
The Hu horse leans into the north wind;
the Yueh bird nests in southern branches:
day by day our parting grows more distant;
day by day robe and belt dangle looser.
Shifting clouds block the white sun;
the traveler does not look to return.
Thinking of you makes one old;
years and months suddenly go by.
Abandoned, I will say no more
but pluck up strength and eat my fill.
-"A thousand li" in earlier writings expressed the idea of a great distance (a "li" being about a third of a mile); "ten thousand li" thus is like a great distance ad infinitum (hyperbole intended) -Hu: general term then for area north of China - from Korea to Tibet
-Yueh: area around the mouth of the Yangtze River, the southernmost limits of then-known civilisation
To go with the poem, here's a video on some amazing landscape of China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZmE3RoC2V8
I've told you a zillion times not to exaggerate!
My current one is "my back is kiling me!" - followed by a string of expetives.
HYPERBOWL~ n.~ A food container large enough to feed all the passengers on thr thesbian train.
I loved Henny. King of the hyperbole one liners.
I was so ugly when I was born, the doctor slapped
my mother. My room was so small even the mice
were hunchbacked. She's been married so many times
she has rice marks on her face.
My spelling is getting no better - expletives! and, even the. How can you spell the wrong?
Spring Fragrance~ What a stunning video!
hoperbole: a prostitute's assertion of virginity
heperbole: assertions of male prowess
hiperbole: effusiveness in greeting
shyperbole: excessive timidity
On the bright side, and I owe you all this, our patient had instead of a night of recurring confusion and panic attacks, a fairly peaceful experience of:
http://www.damninteresting.com/chuck-bonnet-and-the-hallucinations
Perhaps brought on by a CD we burned of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
Hours of back-to-back sleep for the first time in quite a while. A gift for the cared for and the caring.
whyperbole; myperbole } tot mantras
chiperbole: over-promotion of a town north of Gary, Indiana.
and Henny gave over to Rodney : I get no respect. when asked by a passenger "what is that?" the reply was "a racoon coat I got for my wife"with the retort "wonder what I could trade mine for?"
Stoney~ That iink was damn interesting. Where I live is in a sort of bowl & it's hard to detect from which direction sounds come from. I had all my windows & doors open the other day & got realy worried because I coud hear voices in the kitchen & the radio & TV were off & it wasn't the 'phone answer machine ..... turned out to be echo from the farmer's loud tractor radio in the bottom field. I get the seeing things out of the corner of my eye thing. It's usually some ittle furry thing the cats brought in. I do try to rescue them & let them out to have another chance of a nice rodent life.
Last night's Bonnet display: "Balls with pearls and brightly colored rabbi beanies."
A past favorite was: "Either a little school bus or the Stanley Steemer carpet cleaner's van." They're both black and yellow.
A friend's ninety-three year old mom saw over a bonfire, "A shower of pretty jimmies or cookie sprinkles."
The images seem never to be negative or unpleasant but neither do they inspire hyperbole.
Stoney~ What are rabbi beanies?
A typo in our local newspaer small ads was somebody selling a rabbi hutch - so I wrote a letter to the Ed. asking where I coud buy Kosher bunnymix .... he published it!
One of my "girls", pedigree cat, escaped & mated with the local riff-raff. She produced 8 coal-black kittens that I needed to find homes for, so I wrote a little thing entited Queen Elopes with Back Man to place in the small ads. I got a bebe-type Bwwwhhhhaaaaahaha saying the Ed loved it, but wouln't dare print it for fear of being incacerated in the Tower of London & tortured.
I’m certainly not the type,
To gripe,
Or snipe,
Or, as I’ve proclaimed a zillion times,
To hype,
For if I did, yipe!
Back man? a historian?
RoadYacht~ Some people have bad hair days, I'm having a bad spelling day. It's not entirely unconnected with my keyboard being full of toastcrumbs & suchlike .... thanks for pointing that one out, I didn't notice it.
I'm head over heels..... but isn't that as it should be?
and do the words 'big @ss' qualify when describing something besides an @ss that's big?....
If you read that facinating link paolos posted (and it is some read - get a mug of tea/coffee first), most typos don't matter as the brain reads the word you think you typed anyway.
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, a plane...it's. ..........but wait.....that's all true...
OK. Looking back, I have a problem with the L key....
Well, you know, there are those sports events called things like ' the Super Bowl '... I can definitively say that you all as a team have won the- you guessed it, Hyperbole. And poor me, God bless it, I was looking at Spoonerisms on the computer last night; there is a funny site. Too much diaphragmatic action, lol. I think I must find a book by a really boring author, something dry and factual. Hypobole is the cure.
HAZEL: The small one is called a, YARMULKE ... The Full Size one is called a, KIPPOT ... The Yarmulke is worn on the back of the head, and the Kippot is worn square on the head, like any other Hat ... Thats the General data ... all the reasons surrounding the customs and Traditions are not really for these pages, lest we offend someone's sensibilities ...
Hazel ~
Don't worry about the L key. Supposing you left if off when intending to type luck,
there are at least seven plausible alphabetic alternatives... maybe eight.
auri ~
Clive James, began a review of a Leonid Brezhnev memoir this way: “Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it.... If it were read in the open air, birds would fall stunned from the sky
Peter Lake~ in the Engish vernacular, head over heels is spelled arse over tit. But not in polite company.
You guys are in fine form today.
Stoney - once again, you da man! I hope Mrs. Stoney is not wearing herself down with caregiving. Taking care of others is a gift to us, in many ways, but also very tiring.
Jalopkin - I, for one, sir, am utterly and completely offended at your mention of traditional religious headwear. I just cannot believe the gall!!! <wink wink>
Later gators..... off to trim bushes that are reaching up into the clouds and I'm afraid of heights. Have a great weekend..... the whole lot of you....peace out
As far as the FASCINATING CBS , I gather that what is seen may be something like this found in the site http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop/diablo4u/remedios.html ; -otherwise , just find a good site with pictures about Remedios Varo the surrealist painter. hazeeese, no, hazerreese, haze//eese,thanks, what a wonderful quote, I am still [aughing. Good !uck!!
We hope Peter Lake doesn't go arse over tit off his step-ladder while trimming his bushes.
Peter Lake, know full well what you mean when you say you are off to trim bushes. We have worlds of bushes and spend an inordinate amount of time trimming them. But the privacy they offer is priceless.
However . . . there are times when I have spent hour upon hour trimming them that I wish teenagers would take to smoking the leaves off of them to save me some of the trouble of keeping the bushes under control. Only joshing, of course.
I really need one of you computer clever-clogs to call round, change a couple of lightbubls, rub my back with magic linement & give me a tutorial on computers stuff.
A really interesting poet who lives local to me, some of you would be interested in - he was a POW in Colditz - among other life adventures. You all know how bad I am at typos, so I won't even try entering a website thinggy- just type in Michael Burn, Poet, Wales & find his poem Welsh Love Letter. You' also need a detailed map of Snowdonia to locate the mountains & rivers he makes reference to. All those paces are on my doorstep.
Still got L trouble pLaces'
auri~ luvvly paintings, never seen her work - where have I been?
SHANDONISTA: Thank You for the Note ... I always enjoy hearing from you, no matter what the timbre of the Text ... Have a Good Rest, and be Safe .......
And a very Good Weekend to you all !!! Be Safe, Be Well, but have Fun Anyway !!!
To Those of You Who Do ... A Good Shabbos of Peace, Joy, and Rest ...
and if your candles drip on the Lace Tablecloth ... after the wax has cooled, rub an Ice Cube directly on the Wax, and it will break easily and come right out of the fibres .......
Blessings On Everyone,
IVAN
lotlot~ I have a plant called gunnera that is like a giant prickly rhubarb. By midsummer, some of the leaves are 8 foot wide. Several of my teenage friends have eyed it speculatively and asked "Can you smoke it?"
Hazelleese, I hope this works
Welsh Love
Letter
Were all the peaks of Gwynedd
In one
huge mountain piled,
Cnicht on Moelwyn,
Moel-y-gest, Moel Hebog,
And
Eryri on top,
And all between us,
I'd climb them climb them
All!
To
reach you.
O, how I love you!
Were all the streams of Gwynedd
In one
great river joined,
Dwyfor, Dwyryd,
Glaslyn, Ogwen,
And Mawddach in
flood,
And all between us,
I'd swim them swim them
All!
To reach
you.
O, how I love you!
Were all the forts of
Gwynedd
In one great fortress linked,
Caer and castle,
Cricieth,
Harlech,
Conwy, Caernarfon,
And all in flames,
I'd jump them jump
them
All!
To reach you.
O, how I love you!
See you Saturday,
If it's not
raining.
MICHAEL BURN
Hazel: You might try cleaning out your keyboard. Keys can get stuck over the course of time, and everyday things like spilled coca cola, crumbs and cat hair get into the keyboard and make the keys stick. Just a thought.
Ahhhhhhh, I'm dying to cut and paste from yesterday's discussion.
My daughter (who has 2 children under 3) keeps me in fits with her writing style:
"I remember when a good morning was waking up ten minutes before your 12:30 shift and having your make up from the night before being intact enough to run out the door in it... Oh, and i've decided to differentiate people i know in to 2 categories.... acquaintances... and people i would save from attacking zombies... then the hubster says babe, hop on that there computer and see how much you can get for the boy.....then I noticed said boy is asleep on the floor next to the vaccuum..." *evil grin*
See photo in my profile under: "The appple doesn't fall far from the tree"
Well that was probably the equivalent of pulling out grandkid pics but I thought it was funny..... *snicker*
You can't take it all too seriously though cause you know life is sexually transmitted and health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
My Dad always said (for reals) that if you took all my brains and put them in a matchbox it'd be like a couple of BB's in a box car.
*crickets chirping*
Hey, you've been a great crowd. Tip those waitresses!
So I am literally sitting in my car at the airport (I mentioned yesterday) waiting for the Captain to get home, swiping their wifi (until the police ask me to move along) and this guy just walked up and asked me if I'd help him out with a sandwich.....
I said "Sure, where is it?" and he walks off!
Jacq....U dont look old enough to be a grandma! BTW, what do grandmas get called nowadays? When my time comes, I want to be called GiGi ....hehe...
"G G = Gorgeous Grandma"
Pat, flattery will get you everywhere. You can pick your name if you get them (the grands) started early enough and you train your kids to use it. :) Mine called me Yay Yay, which we swiped from a friend (it's Greek for Grandmother) and my husband is Pap Pap after his Grandfather which is Polish for Mr. Wallet.
I am Pops and my wife (pretty as a picture) is Pic.
IVAN......... blessings on you my dear..............
Most days I go to work Later Than The Rest Of The World so the parking lot outside my apartment building is a Ghost Town. I go downstairs this morning and the Biggest Idiot Ever has parked a moving van directly behind my car and Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth. I was Forced to wait about an Eternity And A Half for this dipwad to Return From The Netherworld From Whence He Came. By then I was Shooting Daggers From My Eyes but instead of getting my Nose Out Of Joint I simply said, with Honey Dripping From My Voice, "Could you please move your van, I'm blocked in." After being released from Parking Lot Prison, I drove to work, having to Dodge about Ten Million motorcycles arriving from out of town. I arrived at work with All My Nerves Shot but Managed To Survive the day. This incident really did happen today, but after reading the topic here I actually found it amusing.
more on the honor rollBRAVA rapidgirl! And It Could Go All The Way..... It Is, A H O M E R U N!!! :)
Hi bebe!!!! ❤
(that's your symbol now)
Stoney: I love Pops and Pic!
SF ~ You definitely can go by GiGi, both for chic and gorgeousness. ;)
Dang, rapidgirl, that sounds like the script for a Wagner opera!! Epic! Even after all that, you are a steam-powered writing machine--steam out the ears, you know- Good stuff. Write us a novel and dump the Job.
JAX........ thanks & I am really touched & smiling.................. I love it!
bebe ~ Now "I bebe you" = I ❤ U ;)
The pitch black outdoors remind me I am as tired as an 18-wheeler; my pillows are singing a siren song of slumber which my imminently drooling noggin longs for like Pooh bear desires Honey.
'Night Y'all
♡
Thanks for the kind words, folks, and I say that with all sincerity. (From the bottom of my heart? Maybe I should let that one go.)I was hoping the guy was moving out, but it looks like I didn't get so lucky. Probably just as well I didn't get snarky with a new neighbor.
lotlot .... you are right about the value of hedges between neighbors...... the privacy, peace & quite they afford is definitely worth the trip. All my parts are still where they should be after about four hours of trimmimg.... but they aren't very happy right now. be well
Jax, and a night filled with the sweetest of dreams to you.