Hyperbola: A disease rampant among those who discuss Ebola with little or no scientific knowledge and thereby are prone to making outrageous, stupid and simplistic suggestions on how to deal with the complex issues surrounding epidemiology and biology.
Symptoms include keeping children home from school because someone three towns away might POSSIBLY been in the same country as a confirmed case, amnesia for certain public officials who voted to drastically cut medical research and development budgets and now need to cover their ass, and/or being a commentator on Fox News.
Symptoms include keeping children home from school because someone three towns away might POSSIBLY been in the same country as a confirmed case, amnesia for certain public officials who voted to drastically cut medical research and development budgets and now need to cover their ass, and/or being a commentator on Fox News.
The CDC just announced that it has quarantined Congress due to an outbreak of Hyperbola. Hundreds of cases have been reported as members make more and more outrageous suggestions to control a disease about which they know nothing.
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Get the hyperbole mug.'Hyperbolitis' is the name of a condition and is derived from the English word 'hyperbole' which means to exaggerate for effect.
A sufferer of hyperbolitis will often over exaggerate every day occurrences and will, for want of a better phrase, "make a mountain out of a molehill."
It is a well known fact that many attention seekers suffer from hyperbolitis.
A sufferer of hyperbolitis will often over exaggerate every day occurrences and will, for want of a better phrase, "make a mountain out of a molehill."
It is a well known fact that many attention seekers suffer from hyperbolitis.
Principal Skinner: The things you don't know would fill a whole library and leave room for a few pamphlets.
Superintendent Chalmers: There's no need for hyperbole, Seymour.
Principal Skinner: I'm sorry I suffer from hyperbolitis.
Superintendent Chalmers: There's no need for hyperbole, Seymour.
Principal Skinner: I'm sorry I suffer from hyperbolitis.
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