[extropy-chat] literally at hand

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> "Today, the hopes and dreams of millions of Iraqis
> are closer to
> becoming an everyday reality -- a free, democratic
> government is
> literally at hand," Hastert said.
> 
> 
> I get so tired of hearing literally this and
> literally
> that and literally the other thing.  I have half a
> mind 
> to call up this Hastert character and ask him: If
> this free 
> democratic government is LITERALLY and NOT
> FIGURATIVELY 
> at hand, then show me this literal HAND!  I want to
> see 
> the actual hand that this is literally at.  Oy vey.

For a moment, I thought the Iraqis had chopped off
Saddam's hands or something.  Theft (on a grand scale)
is among his lesser crimes, after all.