Fucking ping-pong tables and the fucking fucks who fuck with them

FTR, the ping pong area at work routinely gets massive holes in the drywall from people playing full contact ping pong. :smiley:

Does it not?

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titular
adjective

3. of or pertaining to the title of a work of art; “performed well in the titular (or title) role”; “the titular theme of the book”

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Now granted, you can argue the thread has a subject rather than a title, but I think that’s splitting hairs.

You say dank little cave like it’s a bad thing, earthworm boy!

I, for one, would love to see a sentence diagram of that title.

And one of the things I absolutely love about this place is that I know for a fact someone will post one shortly.

We have shit *in *the microwave. :frowning:

Hah! Nobody did one in an hour!

Ask and ye shall receive:

A product of a product of our nation’s public school system

Please bear with me: I haven’t diagrammed a sentence since 4th grade.

What size are chess pieces in the wild?

What the fuck is a sentence diagram?

It’s one of those ways to achieve orgasm by reassuring yourself you’re smarter than all of those other fuckers who can speak English competently.

Yeah, it’s totally elitist and shit.

Also, because the power of Mrs. Elementary School English Teacher compels me, I have to point out that the thread title isn’t actually a sentence, what with not having a verb and all.

Thread titles need to be sentences? Who knew?

Ah hell - I never learned to diagram sentences in the way that’s been demonstrated here. I did use marks to call attention to NP, VP, AdvP and so on, but that little tree thing is alien to me.

Oh well. I always knew I was an illiterate cretin.

I suspect they’re lobbing ping pong balls near your head.

If they’re actually lobbing ping pong balls at your head, you have bigger problems to worry about.

Actually, I think that the last “fuck” in the title is a verb.

I never learned to diagram sentences. My eighth grade English teacher told us it was useless. I feel so unhip now.

Kudos to you for not bowing to silly pressure to not swear in the title on an adult message board. I think the mods should add extra “fucks” to all the titles that don’t have swears in them, in fact.

True. That would mean his coworkers either don’t know or don’t follow the rules of table tennis! Problems don’t get much bigger than that.

Well, I’d say the entire thread title is a noun phrase, even though the last “fuck” is used as a verb. If it were “I intend to kill the fucking fucks who fuck with the fucking ping-pong tables” I’d see it as a sentence.

I think I have to agree that there are too few “fucks” in the title. I would’ve maybe gone with “Fucking ping-pong fucking tables and the fucking fucks who fuck with them fuckers.” :slight_smile:

We have a ping-pong table and a pool table in our lunch room, but neither are anywhere near the microwave.

Jim and I just had a five minute discussion over this, and concluded that the title is fine for a title, but it is not a sentence.

The surgical precision of ‘wit’ and ‘charm’ are, sadly, beyond my ability. Poor fine-motor skills. So I have to settle for the whackin-stick of profanity.

Besides, sometimes giving in to that adolescent need to type bad words as anonymously as possible is just so fulfilling. Oh, sweet sweet “fuck”, what would I have done without you?! You’re my favorite of the four-letter-words! I’ve composed you a love-poem:

When I’m feeling down on my luck
As my prose has become sort-of stuck
I think, with a grin
It’s time to give in!
And lib’rally sprinkle in “FUCK!”

See what I mean??