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Jan 09Also in another story I read about a spider who could write.
Former Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has been back in the sports-blogosphere recently for his early attempts to support his return to the NFL. And because PETA never met a terrible branding idea they didn’t love, in 2007 they offered to give Vick an animal “empathy test.”
As a rule, I try and avoid being a language prescriptivist. It’s annoying for those around me, and doesn’t do much good. However, let’s take a moment to review Vick’s answer to the first question:
I absolutely love the whole thing. The grades in the left-hand margins, doing “on to others”; the fact that PETA shows videos featuring “a young person hanging a live cat from the ceiling and stabbing the animal to death with a knife” while wondering if Vick has a “psychopathic brain disorder“; the letter (slash word) “u”. I crack up every time I read that highlighted sentence and correction, as well as some of these other gems:
“One act which really blew my mind was a 2 month old piglet who went after a drowning little boy in a story I read. Now that’s heroic.”
“Chickens have an uncanny ability to think and are very agile. They are very athletic to me after watching the video”
HT: Deadspin via Shutdown Corner
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