Hyperbole – over the top.

We all do it. Every single one of us.

I waited for ages. (Since the stone age?)

I've told you a million times not to do that! Don't you ever listen?

She collapsed in a flood of crocodile tears.

You have to go to religion for really good hyperbole.

WARNING the next paragraphs contain the word “Jesus”.

And why do you look for the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me remove the speck from your eye”; and look, a plank is in your own eye! First remove the plank in your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Jesus was quite witty for a religious person. He loved exaggeration. A rich man going to heaven? Have you ever seen a camel passing through the eye of a needle? If you do not actually hate your own family, mother, father, brothers, sisters, you will never get to the promised Kingdom.

I think he depended on people using their sense of humour – but – hey – that is impossible! Jesus was a religious figure he completely lacked any

sense of the ridiculous!

If hyperbole isn't fun, then it isn't funny. It is about as funny as a woke comedian in fact.

Go over the top for heaven's sake!

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of human talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

-President John F. Kennedy, White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners. This is the dining room:

I shall keep doing adynatons until hell freezes over.