I'd like to join with njkayaker's programmed responses to all these discussions,
and debate language and sentence structure, rather than the topic at hand.
let's discuss the meaning of phrases in common usage rather than discussion about the topic at hand.
it obscures your point
its funny, that;'s a near identical conversation a certain poster had with me a few weeks ago!!!
.............If a poster recognizes something as 'hyperbole' they should be able to accept it as hyperbole and not get all twisted down an endless rabbit hole of semantics...
but sometimes, apparently that's all some "posters" have got to "talk" abot.
oh, the car has still won in portland, it's just been made a little bit nicer for the bicyclists.