# The Verbless Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555 "2001-04-02T22:45:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/62 "2001-04-04T04:02:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aseymayo \* > **Crumbs! Not past participle?** Sometimes when things in public domain of use as one part of speech, that use more prevalent and okay. Forbidden also past participle. Two uses (past participle and adjective). “It [has been] forbidden”: past participle. “Forbidden love”: adjective. Depends on placement, use. [sub]punha not matt\_mcl. Accuracy, as with Staff Reports, suspect. English major since January; matt\_mcl liguistics major since . . . well, longer.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/63 "2001-04-04T04:46:53Z")
iampunha; Verb in name? iampunha legal poster in this thread? (important? relevant? not really. oh well. bored.) ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/64 "2001-04-04T04:53:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KJ \* > \*\*iampunha; Verb in name? iampunha legal poster in this thread? > > (important? relevant? not really. oh well. bored.) \*\* Full name not in post; form without first three letters instead:) Important? Ehh. Relevant? Ehh. Interesting? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/65 "2001-04-04T08:20:21Z")
Herewith, a ruling. Verbs in names without significance as to this thread. Totally arbitrary, but so what? Nanny-nanny-nanny. “Forbidden”: considerations such as Jewish law against even appearance of infraction. such jurisprudence in favour of the avoidance of even quasi-verbal forms such as “forbidden”. Usage of Latinate forms (“avoidance”, etc.) without English verbal morphemes permissible, nay, graceful. Thesauruses (thesauri?) and synonyms key. To punha: your deference gratefully acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/66 "2001-04-05T02:38:40Z")
A funny thread. “Threadspotting,” anyone? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/67 "2001-04-05T03:51:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*To punha: your deference gratefully acceptable. \*\* From punha: me sick. brain tired, sore, in pain. result: no worthwhile cranial activity from me. “deference gratefully acceptable” huh? Brain lost. ---
**Author:** ![Jenericho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Jenericho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenericho)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/68 "2001-04-06T00:57:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Jenericho \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > > > > > > Completed. Gerund. Object of subject Thoughts. > > > > “Completed” not gerund. “Completing” gerund. But only sometimes. > > > > \*\* > > Corrected. Completed verb? No. \*\* Yes (agremeent with “no”, not disagreement with “no”). (Sorry, jerenal bad mood recently. Apologies.) ---
**Author:** ![Drew\_Blade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Drew\_Blade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drew_Blade)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/69 "2001-04-06T02:17:33Z")
Our new calendar, now 10 months only: January February April June July August September October November December ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/70 "2001-04-06T05:49:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > > \*\*To punha: your deference gratefully acceptable. \*\* > > From punha: me sick. brain tired, sore, in pain. result: no worthwhile cranial activity from me. “deference gratefully acceptable” huh? Brain lost. \*\* Brain not “lost”, due to the latter’s status as a forbidden verb. Oops! As for the sentence fragment: from me to you, assurance of its status as a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/71 "2001-04-06T05:55:47Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* **Brain not “lost”, due to the latter’s status as a forbidden verb. Oops![/quote** Brain then . . . temporarily dead. **"As for the sentence fragment: from me to you, assurance of its status as a compliment."** Yay:) Thankee and other signs of gratitude and appreciation, as when compliment on knowledge of words and their usage from linguistics major present, some basal level of intelligence on the part of complimentee necessary. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/72 "2001-04-06T06:04:13Z")
I’th’month of April and his showers’ sweet Dispersion of March’s drought, down to the root, And succour of each vein with sweet liquor Of that same virtue parent to the flower; Month of the force of Zephyrus’s sweet breath, The inspiration in each holt and heath Of the tender crops, and of the young sun, And the halfway point of his Aries run\*, And birds’ artistry in their melody, And their sleep through the night with open eye, Due to Dame Nature’s spur in their courages, In this time, folk’s desire for pilgrimages; And of palmers’ search for strange strands, And foreign hallows, couth in sundry lands, But specially, from every shire, their search In England for Canterbury’s church, Of th’holy blissful martyr, in that week, And for his help, so precious to the sick. Geoffrey Chaucer (with minor revisions by M. McLauchlin) \*note: “run”'s usage in this case that of the noun, not of the verb. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/73 "2001-04-06T07:41:59Z")
**iampunha…** > [@](#): > > _ **Depends** _ on placement, use. “Gotcha”? Verb? ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/74 "2001-04-06T21:32:02Z")
Poor old Buckminster Fuller - no room for him here! ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/75 "2001-04-07T02:49:44Z")
Perfect for movie reviews/synopses. “Castaway” Tom Hanks. Busy UPS manager. Engaged to Helen Hunt (not verb). Independent Helen patient woman. Rush-job back from Moscow to USA. Plane crash (noun). Lots of water. Tom screwed. Tom on beach. Tom scared. Tom on beach. Tom hungry. Volleyball and other junk. Interesting return address. Tom on beach. Fire (noun). Tom and fish. Tom not hungry. Tom lonely. (Some audience leaving.) Tom semi-insane. Accident. Bloody hand. Pissed off (adjective, not verb). Bloody ball. Hello, Wilson! Tom and Wilson. Toothache. Hello, ice-skate. More Tom and Wilson. Lover’s quarrel. Angry Tom. Stubborn Wilson. Goodbye, Wilson!!! Where Wilson??!? Sorry, Wilson! Friends forever? Yes. Raft construction started (adj). Raft construction done. Bye, island! Hello, whale. Zzzzzzzzz. Wilson? Bye, Wilson. Wahhhhhhh! Big storm. Bye, Porta-Potty sail (noun)! Goodbye, hope (noun). Hello, civilization. Spiffed-up Tom. No longer in synch with business priorities. Tom with appreciation for good things in life. Helen Hunt not so patient woman. Helen spoken for. Bye, Helen. Package with interesting return address? Hello, Texas babe. Happy ending. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/76 "2001-04-07T03:11:46Z")
Movies? Things largely unknown to me. My last? A poor (yet funny) vehicle, “Dude, Where’s My Car?”. Guy from That '70s Show and The Tainted Beer Drinker from American Pie, aliens, ostrich farmer, ostriches, pimps, hookers, transvestite strippers, cool soundtrack, giant women, huge panties, gratuitous mentions of oral gratification (exact words), Seann William Scott quite attractive without shirt… ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/77 "2001-04-07T09:13:10Z")
[quotation] \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ shalakalakalakalaka (drum kit kicks in) I Massive\_attack I language good I haiku Death in cold climate hot human percolator water water drip * * * [/quotation] _ **Mistakesville.** _ ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/78 "2001-04-07T13:39:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E d’Mann \* > “Gotcha”? Verb? Pot? Kettle? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/79 "2001-04-07T17:51:52Z")
Enough! Enough! ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/80 "2001-04-07T18:07:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > **"Dude, Where’s My Car?"** Bzzzzt. Violation! Bad racinchikki. Contraction? Shortened verb. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555/81 "2001-04-07T18:13:32Z")
Sorry! Title of movie! Fault of the producer, director, screenwriter, whoever (just like the movie itself…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-verbless-thread/60555.md?page=5)