Slack. Cool. Welcome.
iampunha Clueless.
Paddy dear…
timberlake, male. “N’Sync.”
spears, enhanced female. “Spears.”
conjecture, hankypanky.
Paddy? Irish!
Old man. No N’Sync. Aerosmith. Jethro Tull. Floyd.
hankypanky good.
Paddy Irish? unknown.
Areosmith good.
Jethro Tull. ew.
Floyd excellent.
hankypanky awesome.
Ew? EW!!! Sacrilege!! Jethro Tull – classic!
Yes. Pink Floyd exceptional. Except early albums. Yuk.
Strawpeople, anyone?
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*Originally posted by UncleBill *
Completed. Gerund. Object of subject Thoughts.
Neener. Neener. Neener.QUOTE]
“Completed” not gerund. All gerunds “verb”-ing “verb”-ing “verb”-ing etcetera. “Verb”-ed “verb”-ed “verb”-ed etcetera not gerund. Never gerund, even. “Completing” gerund. But only sometimes.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. 
Yanni, too. Early stuff: too weird and esoteric for my tastes. Later stuff: much better.
Boy, where Jane? With Cheetah? Again?
Linguists useful for verification of verbless status, especially of predicates, gerunds, and whatnot. Matt_mcl = linguistics major, therefore source of information. Swift draftsman of syntactic trees, à la O’Grady and Dobrovolsky. Not a syntactician (yet), but nevertheless successful postulant of first-year linguistics (yes, pathetic, but better than nothing). Further courses in syntax and semantics on their way in the future, possibly next year. Very long verbless paragraph the most noteworthy in the thread, without exaggeration. Latinate adjectives synonymous with certain (more common, but here illegal) Germanic participles most useful.
Ruling necessary re. verb status of various Latin phrases. “Viz.” short for “videlicet;” a verb in Latin, but in English merely an abbreviation. A matter of judgment, not linguistics; jurisprudence? Advice?
Ahh… early Floyd. Atom Heart Mother. Magnificent. Towering. Oddly charming.
Ummagumma. Really odd. Insane instrumentals.
And Tull… wow. Minstrel in the Gallery. Massively conceptual. Thick as a Brick, now… epic scope, fine musicianship. Seminal album.
Noun. Adjective noun.
Preposition noun.
Noun noun.
Matt_Mcl: What a mouthful!
Some days chicken, some days feathers.
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Corrected. Completed verb? No.
Sunday morning:
Him: Hey beautiful!
Her: Not now.
Him: Hmmm . . .
Her: Hot.
Him: Good!
Her: Too hot. Sweaty.
Him: Oh. When?
Her: Later
One hour later:
Her: Now!
Him: What?
Her: Ready!
Him: Too late.
Her: Why?
Him: Baseball.
Yes. Paddy smart. “Mrs. Spears” in previous post. Paddy: huh? Spears with ring . . . ? Spears with Timberlake? Aaaah. Path to truth visible.
Paddy Irish. Paddy also German. Make for confused genes.
Paddy in third person far too much.
Very clever, Mooney252!
How about this one?
EMPLOYEE: *&%^#(&@!!!
BOSS: Cussing forbidden in our professional environment.
EMPLOYEE: Where?
BOSS: Employee handbook.
EMPLOYEE: So what?
BOSS: Bad image, unprofessional, blah blah blah.
EMPLOYEE: Whatever :rolleyes:!
BOSS: Warning #1!
EMPLOYEE: *&%#@&!!!!!!
BOSS: Warning #2!
EMPLOYEE: *&%#@&!!! THBPBPHBPT!!!
BOSS: Severance package! Unemployment line! ¡Adios!
rastahomie, “forbidden” not verb anymore? News to me.
Hickory Dickory Dock
A mouse on top of a clock
Time: at the tone, one ack emma
<<Beep>> - no mouse now, only clock.
Forbidden not verb but adjective. Without “den”, verb. With, adjective.
Crumbs! Not past participle? Hey, matt_mcl - your opinion?