lol'ed at "fucking the gross," 2 months later. I'm ready for season 4, dammit.

It's the KGB's stupid fault for insisting she be told.

and the KGB risked everyone's life, by insisting Paige be told and having no plan for what to do if she freaks out.

my barber looks like a Bengali Enrico Colantoni. I know it's a non-sequitur, just been looking for a chance to say it.

you monster.

yes and Philip's face during that "make-up sex" was… priceless. He looked like a mackerel.

Lots of things strain credibility on this show, but perhaps none more than the fact that the KGB's plan for indoctrinating Paige is just to tell her and see what happens. There's no thought that she might tell a schoolmate, teacher, or friend at church? Her parents have absolutely no way to prevent that. Meh. …

why so judgey. graciegal likes her pot scenes super-authentic.

To horribly misquote Mitch Hedberg (who probably *would* have written masterful tweets), people either love Patton Oswalt or they hate him. Or they think he is ok.

Fair enough. I just didn't think it was very fair to judge MC's writing style by a snippet taken from his website.

As I explained above, the definition of "hyperbole" provided by Fierce Urgency was not from the OED but from a simplified version of the OED, meant for non-native speakers of English.

When most people talking about definitions say “Oxford” they mean the Oxford English Dictionary, which is widely considered the most authoritative and comprehensive resource on the English language, and which provides this definition of "hyperbole:"

no sense in arguing. if you think he sucks, you think he sucks. I disagree. I think if I were to level such criticism at someone (based on a note off their website) I'd make sure I was an *amazing* writer myself. Glass houses and all.

Terminal Man was great, imo. same basic plot you mention, though.

Does Ryan V. think he will earn cool points by slamming Crichton's prose? The guy wasn't shakespeare, and his politics were annoying, but he had a gripping, realistic science fiction style that was completely original and has spawned many imitators. "Andromeda Strain" is a classic. Plus it's kind of classless to…

Paige's church is so *weird.* The music is Zombie Gaither, the politics are Abbie Hoffman. Kind of a Branch Davidian vibe in there.

Stellaaaaaaaahhh!!!

As I understand it, hyperbole is intentional exaggeration used to make a point. It's a figure of speech. "I have a ton of homework." "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." The Cosby thing could be plain old meat-and-potatoes exaggeration, or a bad analogy. But it's not quite hyperbole, because the people comparing CK…

except that it's not just a single comic. By the way, I don't think you are using "hyperbolic" correctly.

I think Picklematrix means the characters on the show acted like nothing happened. That was indeed a weird awkward rapey scene.