Literally The Bee's Knees
Martin sent me a link to a site which literally lists millios of misuses for the word 'literally'. This afternoon I literally spent ages picking out the best but theres literally bucket loads of funny quotes I haven't included which will literally blow your mind, so check it out your self - www.bubo.org/misc/literally.htm.
"Liverpool have literally come back from the grave." - BBC Sports News, reporting on Liverpool's comeback in the UEFA Champions League Final
"Billions of pounds are literally being flushed down the toilet." - Breakfast TV
"The government has literally ploughed millions of pounds into the soil in this area." - Michaela Strachan, BBC Countryfile
"James Milner is literally hugging the touchline." - Football correspondent, BBC Radio 5 Live
"India will quite literally be your oyster." - Lastminute.com Indian cooking holiday
"Roy Keane has got too big for his boots, literally." - Mike Ingham, BBC Radio Five Live
"The village has literally been through a mangle." - Bob Sinkinson, BBC Radio Five Live
"We've literally been to the ends of the Earth to find the best clip art." - Clip art website
"How to make your website literally worldwide." - Internet article, Austin Business Journal
"As athletes these triple jumpers are literally human kangaroos." - Stuart Storey, European Championships, BBC
"When Andre Agassi meets a qualifier, he tends to literally steamroller them." - Ian Carter, BBC Tennis Correspondent, Radio 5 Live,
"All hell broke loose - literally." - Report on the rowdy Lewis - Tyson press conference, Radio 5.
"This chilli will literally blow your head off!" - UK Food Channel
"The ground is so dry around Sydney that fires can flare up literally at the drop of a hat." - TV Commentator
"Either side and he'd have scored, but it was straight, literally, down the keeper's throat." - Commentator, Radio 5 Live
"It could have gone either way, but we literally ran out of legs." - Keith Allan, President, England Roller Hockey Association, Radio 5 Live
"The police were literally swimming in a sea of red herrings." - Sun Reporter regarding the Jill Dando murder trial.
"Schumacher literally blew the socks off the opposition in Malaysia." - Grand Prix Legends Newletter
"That was literally a tune and a half." - Sara Cox, BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show
"I fell off the plank because, literally, my legs went to jelly." - Davina McCall, Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, BBC Radio 1
"Toadfish is eating out of Lou's hand - literally!" - Neighbours
"Denise Lewis literally bounced back in the High Jump." - David Coleman
"There has been a literally seismic shift in Sinn Fein's position." - Tony Blair, BBC Radio 5
"Space-station Mir is literally a few tin cans joined together." - Space correspondent, BBC Radio 5
posted by big dave @ 1:33 pm
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4 Comments:
In addition to this literally earth-shattering document, I meant to send you this article, which includes a fabulous opening paragraph:
Being a librarian doesn't mean that you have a work in a library. I wanted to be a librarian since I was about thirteen years old, and I've still not managed to work in a library at all. I hope this article will give you some ideas about where a library degree can take you. In my case it's taken me around the world a couple of times, so I suppose that the first thing I would say to any budding librarian out there that the world can quite literally become your oyster.
I think the guy who compiled them was an avid 5live listener (saddo - but so am I so I can't really talk) rather than specificly 5live being not very good at grammer.
I miss you already Dave.
Don't forget the F1 commentary on (can't remember which driver): "He's having a baptism of fire: literally!"
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