What can I say about weirdness? I remember this skit on Sesame Street where Ernie was upside down and Bert was right side up, but Ernie poured a glass of milk and it flowed up into his cup, causing Bert to say, "That's weird, that's weird!" (My brother saw it too and pointed out that it was really Bert who was upside down, along with the camera!
The subject also brings to mind Weird Al Yankovic, who sings parody songs and keeps having hits after thirty years! When I'm at karaoke I sometimes sing "Eat It," his parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It." He recently did a parody of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" with the semi-porn video, but his version was "Word Crimes," devoted to grammatical pedantry: it's way better than the original! I too am bugged by solecisms like people using "literally" just to give emphasis to hyperbole, when it really means, "This isn't hyperbole, it's serious." (Like a fashion critic saying, "Kim Kardashian is literally drowning in silk.")
It's funny, but theses days I never seem to see anything that strikes me as truly weird. I feel like I've seen everything...
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