I’ve always hated this cliché in movies and TV shows. Here’s my satiric, if stupid, twist on it.
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I don’t know if many other people have thought of this. When studying Chinese, I often thought about the structure of their language, how their words are built, and how this prevents them from games of hangman, spelling bees, anagrams, palindromes, etc. If there are any pedants viewing this, yes, technically Chinese speakers could sound out a word by calling off the name of each stroke of the character in order. (Each individual stroke in Chinese has a name. In English, this would be equivalent to “dot,” “slash,” “vertical slash,” “line,” or similar terms.)
I’ve never hit a squirrel. Well, with my car, I’ve never hit a squirrel. I’ve tugged on their tails before, and I threw a ripe walnut at one sitting on a high tree branch and hit it in the head, but that covers it. If you’re wondering about the squirrel I hit with the walnut, I rattled him pretty good, but he kept his grip. I laughed at him and then felt bad about it. Then again, there are so many squirrels around my house that squawk at me when it’s my own yard, I almost think they need to be taken down a peg, too.
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