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Re: [Phys-L] Ex: Re: global warming3



On 2021/Oct/28, at 11:47, Anthony Lapinski <alapinski@pds.org> wrote:

No need to stand on your head. The gas comes out as you talk more - and
more and more and... You can just bend over forward and exhale a few times.


I suspect DM was using the rhetorical device <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_device> called hyperbole.



bc … agrees: "As a figure of speech, it is usually not meant to be taken literally."