Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Is?

Bill Clinton made famous the line when responding to the grand jury on the Monica Lewinski affair: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.” Such a simple little verb with such far reaching aspects.  It’s a verb and an auxiliary verb.  It can be used to form the progressive tense, indicate future action and the all too famous passive voice. Still on its own it remains powerful as equating things, indicating position, identifying a class, to name a few uses.

For entertainment sake, enter it into Google and get a whole host of questions to stir the mind, and make you wonder what the world is really thinking. 

is kevjumba a heterosexual bear wrestler
is selena gomez pregnant
is daniel tosh gay
is it down
is lady gaga a man

Ron D. Voigts is the author of PENELOPE AND THE BIRTHDAY CURSE, available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

2 comments:

  1. another fun one is "why":

    Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk
    Why is the sky blue
    Why do dogs eat grass
    and - my favorite - why is my poop green - seriously!?!? this is a top search!?!?

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  2. You are right! The green poop is a classic one.

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