literally

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 17 22:41:42 UTC 2012


I thought this to be a nice example of combining "literally" with
euphemistic elision.

> holding an aspirin between your knees is 100% effective as a form of
> birth control...
>
> as long as you don't ever bend over, because then you're literally effed

No promises on the precision of terminology.

     VS-)

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