Rescued from a ditch when she was no more than a teeny, tiny ball of fluff, Oreo C. Collins, a 2-year-old tuxedo cat from Macon, Ga., may be the very first in her family to obtain a high school diploma.
Posted on 08/16/2009 10:46:18 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Business Bureau used feline as experiment to expose Internet diploma mills:
Cats get a bad rap on the Internet, frequently stereotyped as LOL ignoramuses, forever shredding grammar like a half-dead mouse in what the World Wide Web would have us believe is their endless quest for "cheezburgers."
Despite the pigeon-holing, cats play piano on YouTube and have their own Facebook profiles, and kitties who tweet exhibit a working knowledge of sentence construction that challenges those of their human Twitter compatriots. So it was only a matter of time before a feline got around to earning an online high school equivalency diploma. Rescued from a ditch when she was no more than a teeny, tiny ball of fluff, Oreo C. Collins, a 2-year-old tuxedo cat from Macon, Ga., may be the very first in her family to obtain a 'high school diploma' — online or off. (Of course, we may never know for sure because, as she wrote in her "life experience essay" portion of the test, she's adopted.)
Kelvin Collins, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Central Georgia and Oreo's rescuer, encouraged Oreo to seek her "education," by taking part in the BBB's ongoing investigation of online diploma mills. "Oreo's a really smart cat," Collins said in a telephone interview with msnbc.com. So smart that Oreo garnered mostly As in the online test, with some of her credits earned from her aforementioned life experience essay about her adoption into the Collins family. No doubt that’s why Collins solicited Oreo’s help in the Better Business Bureau’s experiment to expose Internet diploma mills........
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Rescued from a ditch when she was no more than a teeny, tiny ball of fluff, Oreo C. Collins, a 2-year-old tuxedo cat from Macon, Ga., may be the very first in her family to obtain a high school diploma.
MSNBC actually allowed that in its article?
You see, according to MSNBC people who use Twitter are stupid. Now, was there anyone in the past couple of weeks who used Twitter for a powerful political matter and therefore must be ruled to be stupid?
The really cutefluffy ones make nice hats when fully grown - some may be magnetic and have contributed to the building and design of a perpetual motion machine...
See: Scientist built a home made Magnetic Generator that produces 24 KW of free home electricity
If only I could figure out how to rub two cats together vigorously. I should put the dog on this. He’s pretty smart.
I find it speciesist in the extreme for msnbc to suggest that cats couldn’t earn a diploma in the usual way. They just don’t want to.
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Awww! It’s a baby Happycat!
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