GOTTA!

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Because I saw a sign using it to mean "got a," not "got to" (meaning have to). This is so bafflingly wrong to me that I can't even think of an example. Gotta means "got to," right? Like, "You gotta come check out our Ash Wednesday furniture sale!" Never, ever like "I gotta beef pastry." That would mean you HAD to beef pastry, and that isn't a verb!

So what is "gotta"?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Got to	28
Got a	1

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

abbott thread

― gr8080, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know the answer because it's friday and i get to forget abt using words in the right ways for a bit yaay

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

but yeah i think it's got to and the other way is obv two words e.g.
i got a beef ta pick with you buddy

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

i mean a bone ta pick

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

see how i'm headed down the path already

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

you two are so funny! i love it

― elan, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

I want a Criminal Intent where Sharon Stone kills someone with a beef pick

― nabisco, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

then i want a Law & Order spin off that is also a foodie show
Law & Order in the Kitchen

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

dun dun

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

Some people gotta foxtrot. Some people gotta charleston. Some just gotta beef pasty.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

pastRy

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

and they all wear aprons and are french food snobs and are too busy to go investigate crime and prosecute offenders
xpost to me

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

Criminal Intent where Sharon Stone kills someone with a beef pick

This kind of sounds like an anagrammed sentence, that weird feeling they have like, "Yes, this is a statement....?"

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

The crimes in Food L&O would be like "dishwasher naively washes knives of sous chef without permission, gets shot with high-pressure hose."

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha when i was little there was this sign in vancouver on a restaurant or bakery or something and it said 'fresh pasties!'
god that bothered me for years until i figured it out but it still bothers me. r's are good letters i mean cmon what's the difference just put one in

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

there is a such thing as a pasty guys

― max, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/LargerPasties.jpg

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

gotta go gotta go right now, gotta go gotta go gotta go

vs.

and i don't have to go right now

― bell_labs, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

of course there's such a thing as a pasty!
it's just spelled wrong

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

hehe

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

Pasties are bad.

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

Pasties are bad?????

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6486/imageuploadimagegk6.jpg

― libcrypt, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

YES wld not ye rather see the nips of a stripper? Plu nips are SENSETIVE, to ask anyone to attach someting to their nips w/spirit gum is kind of mean at best. IMO but I am the kind of person that feels a little future sadness for heels wearers' eventual tendonitis.

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

abbott thread

― chaki, Saturday, 19 January 2008 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

Pasty == best heteronym evah.

― libcrypt, Saturday, 19 January 2008 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

Abbott == pro-ergonomical stripping.

― libcrypt, Saturday, 19 January 2008 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

This poll is too binary. We need more room in which to spread our wings, or our cheeks.

― Aimless, Saturday, 19 January 2008 03:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.billyfury.com/track_listings/horselp.jpg

― emil.y, Sunday, 20 January 2008 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

so who's the wiseass?

― blueski, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

It's Billy Fury, isnt it? and it's a horse!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

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