I take umbridge with that blog entry title! The essay I wrote in mirror-writing deliberately to piss off the test grader netted me a near-perfect score. I wonder if they were grading by chutzpah.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaMy world history teacher doesn't actually read the essays, just gives them automatic 100s if they meet the length requirement, so we put as much crap in them as possible. It's not really trolling since nobody ever sees it, but we have an ongoing competition to see how much of that song we can fit in without him noticing.
I've always wanted a teacher who graded by length, just to try and pull something like that.
I had something close happen once, where, in order to fulfill a requirement for a class, I had to write a "self-as-writer" evaluation of three pages. The professor openly admitted it was dumb, and she didn't really care and nobody was really going to read them, so I basically wrote a paragraph about the assigned topic and then rambled about Watership Down and Pixar movies before ending on a slightly official-looking conclusion.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaWritten or no, I would like to know how your argument would've gone.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

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