Discussion » Technology is reducing the joys in our lives

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Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around September 2006:
 
i found it strangely saddening to discover when looking for that clarkson article on-line to save me typing it, that google is unable to find even one single instance, in the entire universe of the internet, that gladsome phrase:
"hurtle round a test track in a blaze of tyre smoke and noise"
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 22nd September 2006:
 
i guess this entry may go some way toward improving at least the google situation. but we need more hurtling. we need more blazing and noising. we need more OTT real life.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 22nd September 2006:
 
that we can find online
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 22nd September 2006:
 
Louder than loud
Faster than fast
Over the top
Off the chart
Way past full blast

sigh
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 22nd September 2006:
 
I think the main problem is that I'm not sure the word "blaze" can be applied to "smoke" or "noise" in the same way it can be applied to "inferno" or "glory".

Smoke can billow and noise can blare but rarely can they blaze. (A sentence which sounds like it could be some sort of proverb).
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 22nd September 2006:
 
Can't the "glory" be implied with the "tyre smoke and noise"?