just had to explain what a ball gag is...

AdGator02 · Post by **AdGator02** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:01 pm

to a guy here at the office. he had no clue. he also hasn't seen pulp fiction. that was awkward. [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif[/img]

annarborgator · Post by **annarborgator** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:02 pm

dude has no balls himself, how could he have known?

TTBHG · Post by **TTBHG** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:51 pm

Addie, just let him borrow one of yours for the weekend to try out.

radbag · Post by **radbag** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:46 pm

:dunce:

IHateUGAlyDawgs · Post by **IHateUGAlyDawgs** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:15 pm

:toothy: toothy/weegie - should lilah have used "WAS" instead of "IS" since she used the past tense word "HAD" as in "I just HAD to explain..." [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/dunce.gif[/img]

No. The ball gag still exists...thus she had to explain what it is.

TTBHG · Post by **TTBHG** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:18 pm

:toothy: toothy/weegie - should lilah have used "WAS" instead of "IS" since she used the past tense word "HAD" as in "I just HAD to explain..." [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/dunce.gif[/img]

You know how I know you're gay?

annarborgator · Post by **annarborgator** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:20 pm

I actually think of it as, the idea of a ball gag exists apart from a specific time (not now, not in the past), so it's proper to talk about it in the present because the idea still exists.

Weegie · Post by **Weegie** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:48 pm

She meant that the situation was awkward, so past tense was appropriate.

annarborgator · Post by **annarborgator** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:51 pm

"is" or "was" doesn't refer to the situation, though. Is that irrelevant?

Weegie · Post by **Weegie** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:00 pm

Oh, I was looking at the wrong "was."

In the title, the "is" is correct because it's describing a constant state of an object.

Toothy · Post by **Toothy** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:01 pm

Hater is substantially correct.

I had to explain to her who Abraham Lincoln was.
I had to explain to her who Jessica Simpson is.

The notion that the verb tense stays inflexibly in the present or in the past comes from badly taught English: slap them with a rule, no matter how often the rule doesn't apply.

radbag · Post by **radbag** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:13 pm

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TheTodd · Post by **TheTodd** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:22 pm

awesome thread

apexgator · Post by **apexgator** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:46 am

This thread sux

TheTodd · Post by **TheTodd** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:54 am

:bondage:

urapnes · Post by **urapnes** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:20 pm

addy - you usually the gagger or the gaggee?

AdGator02 · Post by **AdGator02** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:33 pm

^^^
neither, but i know what the thing is. a girl there didn't know either. the guy was all "i'm the only toy needed."

Weegie · Post by **Weegie** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:59 pm

^^^
the guy was all "i'm the only toy needed."

There's nothing more appealing than a man's sexual insecurity.