# Don't push that button! (The no E thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802 "2001-05-18T07:38:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meleemancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Meleemancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meleemancer)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/1 "2001-05-18T07:38:29Z")
Discussion topics disallowing various things about words show up a lot, so I shall try my hand at mimickry. A main gimmick of this discussion topic is a lack of a particular fifth thing in a listing of alpha-symbols. To additionally clarify, a button that “3”, “D”, “W”, and “R” buttons surround (on a standard configuration of buttons) is off-limits. With this addition, it is hard to say many things. To show a major difficulty, many forms of “I am” cannot work now. Much tricky circumlocution is a must. Oh, and my apology for using a bad symbol in naming this discussion. I thought it important to show a main point of this topic plainly. So, a structural difficulty is at hand now. Discussion should spring forth, and should try to work with this difficulty. (sigh… try to flirt, if you must. :rolleyes: ) Go to it! Tip: Ctrl-F can assist by finding words that contain a bad symbol quickly. (This is my first start of a discussion topic, at last. Hurrah!) ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/2 "2001-05-18T07:48:37Z")
My brain will hurt too much to do this for any long duration. Bad symbol is in too many words. Argh, I say. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/3 "2001-05-18T07:52:56Z")
So, what do you want to talk about or discuss? Or shall I just spout random babblings, along with all who join this post? :::wiping brow::: Wow, I’m glad that ‘Z’ is not off limits! Wouldn’t want it that tough! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/4 "2001-05-18T07:56:10Z")
_Orig. by Drastic_ “To additionally clarify, a button that “3”, “D”, “W”, and “R” buttons surround …” You forgot “4”. ---
**Author:** ![Meleemancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Meleemancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meleemancer)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/5 "2001-05-18T08:10:51Z")
\*Originally said by (Arctic H2O) Wolf \* “To additionally clarify, a button that “3”, “D”, “W”, and “R” buttons surround …” You forgot “4”. Ah, right. My bad. I was only thinking about four cardinal positions as I said that. I think you all and I should discuss anything that is not too hard to say, accounting for constraints. A topic that is probably not a good thing to discuss is that today I took my last final of this scholastic half-annum. It was about… um… study of how capital plods around in transactions. I am still procrastinating about working on my last thing to do for this scholastic half-annum, which I can’t say much about without that bad symbol. What should you and I do about an alias with a bad symbol? It that modification up top okay? ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/6 "2001-05-18T08:13:31Z")
_Orig. by Solid H[sub]2[/sub]O Wolf:_ “You forgot ‘4’.” Your attribution did not occur by my hand. Drastic did not post this: "“To additionally clarify, a button that “3”, “D”, “W”, and “R” buttons surround …”. Hmm. I find that I cannot say who did, lacking a good synonym at this instant. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/7 "2001-05-18T08:15:51Z")
You know, your small rolling-ocular-organ pic you put past your bit about flirting was sought with an application of this particular fifth alpha-symbol. You must now carry punishing conclusions to your horrific incarnation of this abandoning symbol. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/8 "2001-05-18T09:24:46Z")
Why, mighty adroit of you, **SPO** , to mark that icon as a construct by way of what is disallow now and again. **Ch. Scott** is happy with this, is **Scott** not? Damn, this is painful! Goodnight all. Goodday all. ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/9 "2001-05-18T09:25:34Z")
When Bob Simpson was a food critic Bob had to call his work ‘Food Box’ as that button didn’t work on his composition machine. A classic from my most loved show. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/10 "2001-05-18T09:28:53Z")
[ul]\*Originally told by Solid H[sub]2[/sub]O Wolf \* \*\*_Orig. by Drastic_ “To additionally clarify, a button that “3”, “D”, “W”, and “R” buttons surround …” You forgot “4”. \*\* [/ul] Also “S”. Though just slightly. – **SNorth**. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/11 "2001-05-18T09:32:07Z")
[ul]_jonnyb FUBARs_ Wh\*\*_ **n Bob Simpson was a food critic Bob had to call his work ‘Food Box’ as that button didn’t work on his composition machin** _ **. A classic from my most lov** \_\*\*d show. \*\* [/ul] discount this calamity? ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/12 "2001-05-18T09:33:19Z")
This is too hard for an Australian. Yours faithfully, 'boss ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/13 "2001-05-18T09:36:45Z")
you know, long ago I would play this thing with my pals. Only him and I had O. Which was good since it allows you to say things but still slip past words too hard to say. It took up about four hours to play, lots of fun. This is too hard for Mr. rat. so ta-ta ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/14 "2001-05-18T09:38:15Z")
Damn. How silly of moi. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/15 "2001-05-18T09:40:39Z")
[ul]_modification of jonnyb_ Bob Simpson was a food critic. Bob had to call his work ‘Food Box’ as that button didn’t work on his composition aid. A classic from a show I most dig. [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/16 "2001-05-18T09:54:32Z")
Oh, 'Ling North, you said “adroit”! You is now officially _muy cool_ (ain’t Spanglish amazing?). I now must purport to a usage of that word in my upcoming communications with inhabitants of this world that I will go by. 'Cuz, it stands to smarts to gain such a titillation of word vocabulary as a part of your charicaturization of day-to-day living. (Pardon my possible loosing of my typing… this activity is difficult, to say most minimally! And I know that a Spanish duplication of _muy_ would contain a forbidding marking if application of such was in Britain/USA signals.) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/17 "2001-05-18T10:33:11Z")
“Solid H[sub]2[/sub]O” Wolf most sorry to **Drastic**. My fault. I am fond of alt-nyms “Solid” and “Arctic” in front of Wolf. Such quaint but strong solutions to OP’s plan. Oh for a long paragraph! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/18 "2001-05-18T11:00:17Z")
Long paragraphs attract much difficulty for the making, Ol’ Wolf, mostly for posting-guys who got accustomations to rapid typing. It’s frustrating to go typing along at a quick clip only to attain knowing that a pushing of that sign of forbidding has, of mistaking occurration, flown into sight by my faulting digit hitting down on that button. 'Tis most unfortunatory, 'cuz I find much hasty waiting in wanting to put an indication of my communication with you on our SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/19 "2001-05-18T11:05:06Z")
A noting: This writing, with a start from that OP and thusly that first stating of “Don’t push that button!” and following conditioning of owl-rhyming non-AIOU symbol is making this communication lining look as if it was about a particular drug. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802/20 "2001-05-18T11:11:08Z")
What is that capital thing up top? (and in two words also!) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-push-that-button-the-no-e-thread/65802.md?page=2)