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Clever cat earns ‘high school diploma’ online
msnbc ^
| Aug. 14, 2009
| Helen A.S. Popkin
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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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cat; diploma; diplomamills; kittyping
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To: Slings and Arrows; LucyT; JoeProBono
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08/16/2009 1:15:05 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: LucyT; Daffynition
WHA?
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posted on
08/16/2009 2:01:01 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Unless I have gone blind .... me thinks your pic doesn't show.
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posted on
08/16/2009 2:13:44 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: JoeProBono
If you ever need to trap a cat... forget baiting the trap with food - just stick a newspaper in there and you'll get one soon enough.
I'm not sure why, but cats cannot resist curling up on a newspaper. Maybe they have a natural desire to protect the world from liberalism by squatting on it. Or maybe they just take news coverage literally.
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posted on
08/16/2009 2:17:58 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/16/2009 2:20:19 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
AWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I like that!
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posted on
08/16/2009 2:23:00 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/16/2009 2:32:37 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Snickering Hound
Thanks for the laugh! The picture and comment are just wonderful!!!!!!
To: JoeProBono
Another appropriate comment in cat speak!
To: KarlInOhio
Anyone that uses a social network site is deranged!
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posted on
08/16/2009 3:24:03 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: JoeProBono
WHY U HAZ B 18 Y/O TO CZECH OUT PORN?
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posted on
08/16/2009 3:33:12 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
08/16/2009 3:39:08 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/16/2009 4:25:53 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Dewey does not approve.........
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posted on
08/16/2009 4:53:11 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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08/16/2009 5:56:51 PM PDT
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TheOldLady
(zer0 the granny killer)
To: windcliff; raven92876
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08/17/2009 12:01:24 PM PDT
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stylecouncilor
(What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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