Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 03, 2023

Kind of like this comic.

Of course, people that don’t understand hyperbole, probably wouldn’t know what the word Hyperbole means.

That’s an extremely huge spoiler.

Why not?

Politicians who frequently say stupid things, could hire someone to hold up a sign like that to explain away their stupidity.

Republican humor.

sounds like something Don McMillan, the engineer-turned-stand-up-comic, would say.

That’s another over the top attempt to avoid being charged with insulting someone or something.

The problem with that is that if getting mad and constantly bringing it back up out of context can be seen as “owning” the other side, some people will intentionally ignore the context so they can at least pretend to be mad about it.

For the spelling-impaired, “Hyper Bole” might be taken to mean some must-watch Sports Competition.

Probably needed before every joke now.

They could use this on Facebook. /s

What’s she so worried about? Has everyone become so literal now that they take whatever you say .. well .. literally?

Satire is difficult anymore, because with the advent of the internet we’ve come to realize that there is no view so reprehensible, no conspiracy so ludicrous, that someone doesn’t hold it in earnest.

WM…again, a perfect observation and beautifully drawn. Such fine work…thank you.

Yup. So? Can we just hear the joke now and stop worrying if someone is offended?

Imagine Eddie Murphy, Don Rickles, George Carlin, or Richard Pryor doing stand up in today’s thin skinned society.

Anyone who doesn’t understand hyperbole should be shot into the sun.

i think Dallas won that

I could use someone to hold up disclaimer signs in my everyday conversations. I have a dry wit and tend to use hyperbole, sarcasm, and devil’s advocacy in my everyday speech. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard my wife say something after me that starts, “What he means is…”.

A place Sheldon Cooper would enjoy.

Performing while seemingly sartorially impaired is de rigueur in stand up world.

The people in the audience may have to sign a napkin that they read and understood the instruction.

Never let facts get in the way of a good story. …unless you’re under oath.

Gotta be so specific these days..

Bidenomics is the Opiate of the Masses.

Plenty of people who comment online certainly don’t understand sarcasm, and I believe QAnon started out as satire postings. I mean “Jewish Space Lasers”! “Trump battling international pedophile cabals!” on and on.

’’Hyperbole’’ is that thing in Sci-Fi that lets spaceships fly really fast. Right? What do I win?

I LUV satire. . .

Mmmmm – everything comes with a warning these days! And with jokes you have to be soooooo careful.

That’s the club where the hecklers have the last laugh.

Hyperbole is one of the many staples of comedy.

For example. I make fun of my own sneezes and snoring.

My sneezes can set of a car alarm at 50 paces. I once got an email from a coworker telling me “Gesundheit.” She worked in the building across the parking lot. If I have to sneeze while driving, I have to open a window to keep them from blowing out. People at the artillery range at the nearby Army base call me to tell me to “keep the noise down.”

My snores are not measured in decibels, they use the Richter Scale for that. OSHA posted a warning sign on my bedroom door: Hazardous Noise Area. Ear Protection Required.

Both phenomena are caused by having sinuses the size of Carlsbad Caverns and enough lung capacity to fill a tire on an 18-wheeler.

The famous playwright George S.Kaufman said—“Satire is what closes on Saturday night”.

Kaufman,when asked what “mixed reviews” meant—said—“It means good and lousy”

That’s the path an asteroid takes when curving near the earth but but not coming back again. Must be jokes that don’t get to the point either.

They should have interpreters for the I don’t get IT Crowd.

Doctor: The next medication is an extra long capule. Do not take it laterally.

All the late-night guys are like that.

Looks more like a cafe for the terminally stupid…Where are the Fux Noose cameras?

The irony challenged are out in force tonight.

When I did my act at the “Magic Castle” in Hollywood, I had to announce to all the uptight amateur magicians that my act was a satire. The performance before no one got it! They thought I was serious.

If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times, Wiley: don’t use hyperbole!

My hyper bole is a bowl filled with hyper.

The death of humor was preceded by a dearth of humor.

Maybe we can adopt “/h” as the hyperbole symbol in written text. We could suggest people use it; we ought to demand people use it; we should develop a special Enforcement Squad to MAKE everyone use it! /h

Remember the Greek myth about the mismatched lovers Litotes and Hyperbole.