# Verb. It's what you do. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178 "2002-12-16T22:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/1 "2002-12-16T22:04:30Z")
What the piss is this? We’ve all heard about the public health nightmare that is childhood obesity in America. It’s a serious problem, and I applaud any effort to combat this preventable condition on a large scale. _\_ Like this grammar-themed website, for example. It shows kids that it’s “cool” to do things that are verbs. See, we get kids to choose a verb, right? And then we encourage them to act on that verb! Like for instance, today my verb is “sit”. And it’s not just a website either! Turn on Nickelodeon. You’re likely to see way happenin’ Gen-Y’ers performing their totally rad verbs! Bitchen, dude! And there are radio spots too! It’s about time someone got kids to exercise by appealing to their natural interest in parts of speech. My verb for tomorrow is “fuck”, as in “Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is a stupid…” _\_ ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/2 "2002-12-16T22:10:57Z")
Mine is “pee”. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/3 "2002-12-16T22:11:47Z")
Way. It’s not an adverb. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/4 "2002-12-16T22:18:10Z")
Verb off, pronoun. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/5 "2002-12-16T22:35:37Z")
> [@](#): > > _from a Calvin and Hobbes comic_ > Verbing weirds language Hey, I’ve got an idea. Why not tell your lazy-ass kid to go outside for a couple hours and verb whatever it wants out there! Sorry, crazy idea, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/6 "2002-12-16T22:52:14Z")
Well, verb this verbing substantive. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/7 "2002-12-16T22:53:22Z")
> [@](#): > > My verb for tomorrow is “fuck”, as in “Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is a stupid…” **cuauhtemoc** , maybe you should check that site out- it’s not [nounnow.com](http://nounnow.com), it’s [verbnow.com](http://verbnow.com), as in “Tommy Thompson can go \_\_\_\_ himself”. The first time I saw the ad on a bus stop I was confused- “They’re trying to sell me verbs?” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/8 "2002-12-16T23:16:28Z")
Wha? Whadahuh? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/9 "2002-12-16T23:23:06Z")
Stop whatting the issue. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/10 "2002-12-17T00:16:28Z")
What’s the Schoolhouse Rock for verbs? ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/11 "2002-12-17T00:21:17Z")
[Subject] I [predicate] will drink [object] beer. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/12 "2002-12-17T00:25:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SisterCoyote \* > \*\*What’s the Schoolhouse Rock for verbs? \*\* [That’s What’s Happening!](http://www.school-house-rock.com/Ver.html) ---
**Author:** ![Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/2bfe46/32.png) [@Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/13 "2002-12-17T00:36:22Z")
VAGINA!!! Yeah, what you all looking at? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/14 "2002-12-17T00:44:48Z")
That’s a weird website. I kept hunting around it trying to find out what VERB means. I thought it was an acronym or something. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/15 "2002-12-17T02:57:21Z")
V.E.R.B. Very… uh… egregious… no, uh… Oh, verb it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/16 "2002-12-17T03:04:18Z")
This reminds me of Buckminster Fuller’s motivational mantra “I seem to be a verb.” I haven’t read the book of the same title, so maybe he elaborated on it enough to make it sensible. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/17 "2002-12-17T09:04:10Z")
“Verbing weirds language!” — Calvin ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/18 "2002-12-17T13:38:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mojo \* > \*\ ***cuauhtemoc** , maybe you should check that site out- it’s not [nounnow.com](http://nounnow.com), it’s [verbnow.com](http://verbnow.com), as in “Tommy Thompson can go \_\_\_\_ himself”. > > The first time I saw the ad on a bus stop I was confused- “They’re trying to sell me verbs?” \*\* You have been whooshed by a grammar joke, Lembeck. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/19 "2002-12-17T13:41:40Z")
My verb is work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![JRootabega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@JRootabega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRootabega)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verb-its-what-you-do/143178/20 "2002-12-17T16:36:34Z")
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