tirade Tirade I can't believe no one had blathed under "tirade" thus far! What are you people thinking? How can you have not yet blathed under "tirade"? I mean there have only been like five hundred tirades here at blather! And not a word, not a single post, about tirades themselves! What are you people thinking? How can you have not yet blathed under "tirade"? 060120 ... sisyphus a finely tuned tirade remains a mystery. to let if be full of meaning and bite seems like too much for the word, yet leaving it as sheer blustering nothingness seems to cut it short and cheap. maybe a type of exhaling that means only for a little bit but is forgotten once the breath has passed. 070922 ... semantics as usual :) for me, "full of meaning and bite" is precisely what makes a tirade a tirade; anything less makes it a rant. 070922 what's it to you? who go blather from