Leave me out of it.

Great! Can you do the rest of the article now? Because as I outline it, this is how it breaks down:

There was an article in Slate in like 1999 about how we were about to get a slew of British reality tv imports, from Pop Idol to Who Want To Be a Millionaire? At the time I scoffed, just based on the descriptions. Boy was I wrong, but the point is that we get plenty of British crap, too.

There was an article in Slate in like 1999 about how we were about to get a slew of British reality tv imports, from Pop Idol to Who Want To Be a Millionaire? At the time I scoffed, just based on the descriptions. Boy was I wrong, but the point is that we get plenty of British crap, too.

I don't care what the naysayers say—that last sequence with the Night's King or whoever he is walking onto the pier and necromancin' the freshly dead was fucking amazing.

Hyperbolic was the mot juste, and I'm done arguing about it.

This reminds me of Bruce's "The Daves I Know" song from KITH:

I took that to be her larger point, actually, and she's said (in tweets back and forth with different followers last night) that she was keeping it anonymous because for her it's not about the public shaming of one figure but rather a larger conversation she was trying to have.

She said that whoever it is that she's talking about made it tough for her to go on tour with him because she didn't want to be subjected to the same behavior, so it seems like it wouldn't be Allen.

*shrugs* Could be. He's married, too, and unless the incident in question is from before 2008 Louis CK would be eliminated as a potential suspect, as he's been divorced since then. It could be any number of successful, prolific comics.

Beats me, honestly. I'm just granting that some parts of the description could theoretically fit Louis CK. I mean when I first read it I agreed with all of the others who were saying it seems like it could only be Louis CK. Then I saw her tweets that seemed to cast doubt on it being him. Then I went back and reread it…

That's the narrower definition associated with hyperbole as a literary or rhetorical device. It's had a broader definition associated with it for time.

Last night someone tweeted at her that nobody else fits the description and she replied "not true" (if I'm following the trail of tweets correctly—I'm not that Twitter savvy), and two days ago she tweeted a reply to someone asking why she isn't a regular on Louie by saying that he's "an old friend," but she wouldn't…

Well, considering that the Gawker piece that's linked in the Hollywood Gossip piece that started all of this says that the hotel room incident *is* about Louis CK, it *would* be Louis CK for whom Stanhope would be taking the fall, so I assumed that's what you were implying.

I'm using it correctly, given my opinion. I'd link to the definitive OED, but it's subscription-based, so I'll offer good ol' dictionary.com instead:

Yeah, I'm not a conspiracy-minded person, and my original point way up above is that too often these things spiral out of control on the Interwebs with little or no actual evidence. People automatically assuming that Stanhope is taking the fall for Louis CK would be one such example. Each piece I've read about this…

You've added to and/or edited posts without any indication that you were doing so, and those additions and edits go beyond clarifications and fixing typos and instead have changed the context of what you had originally said, and you've done it with posts to which I and others have already responded. If you can't see…

So should I talk to you or your sock puppet?

Yeah that's in the Defamer piece I found after my comments above. I link to it below. I agree it's shitty if true.

After you edited it, it's far removed.