# Stop it, right now! (Using "has" for have")

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 16, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427 "2007-09-16T23:15:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/61 "2007-09-18T00:04:14Z")

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U lost sens humorr? We heps look fir it!

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/62 "2007-09-18T00:11:33Z")

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Love the lolcats. Took me that longest time to figure out what the harbls were, though.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/63 "2007-09-18T00:22:57Z")

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[dis wun’s myne](http://www.lolcats.com/view/9619/)

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/64 "2007-09-18T00:24:15Z")

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[QUOTE=GuanoLad]  
Jesus fuck, this is annoying.  
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It’s like everyone up and turned in to Jar Jar Binks.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/65 "2007-09-18T00:24:19Z")

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But you doesn’t has to call me Johnson.

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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/66 "2007-09-18T01:24:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]  
It’s like everyone up and turned in to Jar Jar Binks.  
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Meesa can hassa cheeezbaga?!

I know. I felt dirty typing that.

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**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/67 "2007-09-18T01:24:52Z")

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[QUOTE=GuanoLad]  
Jesus fuck, this is annoying.  
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Koffee Kat says drink decaf. kthxbai.

😃

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/68 "2007-09-18T05:21:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone]  
Okay, now that really made me laugh. (I love that particular lolcat.)  
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U mite like [dis wun I mayd](http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2056764650000735275flrxic) in cheezbrgr factri.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/69 "2007-09-18T14:14:56Z")

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]  
It’s like everyone up and turned in to Jar Jar Binks.  
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Or a Bizarro.

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**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/70 "2007-09-18T14:57:46Z")

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[QUOTE=silenus]  
U lost sens humorr? We heps look fir it!  
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I’ve got a sense of humor, but it has no point of intersection with this thread. As soon as I first grasped (several decades ago) the idea of deliberately using bad grammar, I also found that its comedic potential was almost immediately exhausted.

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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/71 "2007-09-18T16:25:33Z")

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You know, the fact that so many people hate lol-speak just makes me want to use it more.

Good wunz:

[I has a bucket!](http://www.ihasabucket.com/)  
[I made you a cookie!](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/299000164_4d7398dbf6.jpg)  
[Ceiling cat …](http://rudd-o.com/wp-content/uploads/images/funny/Ceiling_cat_is_watching_you_masturbate.jpg)  
[I has a flavor](http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/flavor_410.jpg)  
[I hate everything](http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/2000869536009464266_rs.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/72 "2007-09-18T18:46:25Z")

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An annoying trend, yes, but nothing I is losing sleep ovur.

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**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/73 "2007-09-18T18:49:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Baldwin]  
I’ve got a sense of humor, but it has no point of intersection with this thread. As soon as I first grasped (several decades ago) the idea of deliberately using bad grammar, I also found that its comedic potential was almost immediately exhausted.  
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Invisible sense of humurr!

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**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/74 "2007-09-19T19:05:29Z")

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[QUOTE=saoirse]  
Invisible sense of humurr!  
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Do you have a point to make, beyond your personal enjoyment of this endless cycle of willful stupidity?

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/75 "2007-09-19T19:11:49Z")

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[QUOTE=saoirse]  
Invisible sense of humurr!  
[/QUOTE]  
Superb!

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**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/76 "2007-09-19T19:13:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Baldwin]  
Do you have a point to make, beyond your personal enjoyment of this endless cycle of willful stupidity?  
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Was there some particular reason you felt the need to post this to a thread that had gone 24 hours without any activity?

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/77 "2007-09-19T19:30:21Z")

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This needs to stop. Remember Zoobas? Liking Vanilla Ice? Having a mullet? Typing like a moron is the same thing.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/78 "2007-09-19T19:38:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Zebra]  
Has At You!  
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Gzooont height

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**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/79 "2007-09-20T03:29:58Z")

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[QUOTE=saoirse]  
Invisible sense of humurr!  
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A+ Would lol again.

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**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-it-right-now-using-has-for-have/419427/80 "2007-09-20T07:05:57Z")

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oh hai

i has a sens of humer

let me show it to yu

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