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[Maudie]

[Banya]

Roommate: *tries unsuccessfully for three minutes to open a slim jim* *gives up and tosses it at me* "Can you open this?"
Me: *opens slim jim and eats half* *tosses rest back at her*

[LT Sandpaw]

"We're gonna talk about nouns and verbs."

A noun is something you can hit, a adjective is how you hit it, and a verb is hitting it.

[James Gryphon]

Exactly!

[LT Sandpaw]

No!

[James Gryphon]

Exactly!

[LT Sandpaw]

No!

[The Skarzs]

Verb.  It's what you do.  (Was that before your time?)

The only thing I can think of is School House Rock: Verb! That's what's happening!

"We're gonna talk about nouns and verbs."

A noun is something you can hit, a adjective is how you hit it, and a verb is hitting it.

No, an adjective is describing the thing hit; an adverb is how you hit it. Language right, hater.

[James Gryphon]

Exactly!

[Banya]

These Verb videos used to run on TV in the summertime.  Nickelodeon showed them before and after commercials.  They'd have a different kid from somewhere around the country playing some sport: skating, surfing, kicking a ball, whatever.  I guess they stopped doing this in 2006, so you'd've had to have been watching TV before that to remember them.

[James Gryphon]

Exactly!

(The only thing I know about Schoolhouse Rock is that at least one of our old Archie Comics digests featured a maze that had something to do with it.)

[Banya]

I've only seen a few Schoolhouse Rock videos; I didn't take English in middle school, when, I think, they showed them more frequently during grammar units.

[Maudie]

[Søren]

"Conjunction junction, what's your func-tion?"

[Banya]

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