You know how some folks say “literally” when they mean “figuratively?” For example, on a particularly warm day in the summer, they may say something along the lines of, “It’s literally on fire out there!” No… no it isn’t. If it were literally on fire out there you wouldn’t be alive to say this, because you would have burned to a crisp or suffered from smoke inhalation. Now, if you said it was figuratively on fire out there, well that’s a little easier to swallow. Why are we making such a big deal out of this?
Well, first of all, grammar matters. If we don’t take our vocabulary seriously, how are we any different from animals? Secondly, you have to be careful with what you say. Because some folks take things literally, and when they do it can get ridiculous. Luckily, sometimes it gets ridiculous in a hilarious way, and that’s what we’re here to show off. The folks in these photos don’t figuratively take things literally, they literally take things literally… literally.