[dionidium]

Use of the word "literally" as hyperbole is understood clearly by every single reader of this thread, including you. You might as well get over it.

[jqm]

Well, we are going to need another word to replace "literally" than. Because in being funny we have literally abused literally to death. For a replacement could we maybe use "figuratively"? Or maybe the joke doesn't work in reverse?

[Flimm]

I actually took what he said at face value and I understood that he does tear paper up.

[jqm]

Which might be true. I know a guy who had his secretary print everything out rather than read it on the screen. Which I always found silly and wasteful, but there are people like this.