Cat earns GED

[caseagainstfaith]

I can haz diploma? The answer for one kitty cat is yes! A cat in Georgia namd Oreo recently earned a high school GED diploma on the internet, as Oreo's owner investigated online diploma mills.

The owner is president of the Better Business Bureau in Georgia, and applied for the diploma in Oreo's name, filling out the tests and even sending in a personal experience essay about being a cat. And sure enough the diploma came right through!

source - www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32420644/ns/tech_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

[Old Viking]

I taught one of my cats to play chess. To keep this in perspective, however, I can beat him two out of three.

[skyfire]

My first cat had a five-word vocabulary (yes, he could actually speak), a working knowledge of how to open doors, a sense of comedic timing, and the ability to make long-term plans.

[maanantai]

Aug 17, 2009 14:20:43 GMT -5 Old Viking said:

I taught one of my cats to play chess. To keep this in perspective, however, I can beat him two out of three.

My cat only lays on the board and knock down the pieces. Sometimes in turns like first one white and then one black and the one white again. And then he picks a random piece and runs away with it. I don't mind though. I've never been good at chess anyways and at least his tactic in the game is fast.

[Redhunter]

Aug 17, 2009 14:41:57 GMT -5 skyfire said:

My first cat had a five-word vocabulary (yes, he could actually speak), a working knowledge of how to open doors, a sense of comedic timing, and the ability to make long-term plans.

Granted, all you stated here made me laugh till I teared up, but you had a strategizing, lyrical cat "a with a sense of comedic timing"? What was it... the feline version of the secretly vaudevillian frog from the old WB cartoon?

Wow. Congrats. That was seriously one of the most absolute asanine things I've ever heard in my life.

[Lady Renae]

Apparently you don't own a cat. Not sure about the concept of a cat talking (though I have heard one bark... it's a very strange experience), but I'll vouch for the rest as a cat owner myself. Heck, my cat has been known to open doors if they have that handle-type thing instead of a knob. All she has to do is jump up, grab it with both paws, and hang there.

And why is it that cats ALWAYS have to jump under your feet at the last second when you're going up and down staircases?

[devilschaplain2]

It happened in Georgia. No further explanation necessary.

[Mantorok]

Aug 18, 2009 11:24:54 GMT -5 Lady Renae said:

And why is it that cats ALWAYS have to jump under your feet at the last second when you're going up and down staircases?

It's all part of the plan.

[skyfire]

Aug 18, 2009 11:24:54 GMT -5 Lady Renae said:

Apparently you don't own a cat. Not sure about the concept of a cat talking (though I have heard one bark... it's a very strange experience),

It's real.

Cats are smart enough and have sufficiently sophisticated vocalization abilities to where they can, if trained or imprinted upon, learn a few simple words.

If you search for it, you might actually be able to find a clip from an early episode of America's Funniest Home Videos wherein a cat quite audibly shouts "No!" when its owners attempt to bathe it.

[skyfire]

Aug 18, 2009 3:45:28 GMT -5 Redhunter said:

Aug 17, 2009 14:41:57 GMT -5 skyfire said:

My first cat had a five-word vocabulary (yes, he could actually speak), a working knowledge of how to open doors, a sense of comedic timing, and the ability to make long-term plans.

Granted, all you stated here made me laugh till I teared up, but you had a strategizing, lyrical cat "a with a sense of comedic timing"? What was it... the feline version of the secretly vaudevillian frog from the old WB cartoon?

Wow. Congrats. That was seriously one of the most absolute asanine things I've ever heard in my life.

Spoken like someone who has no clue what they're talking about.

I've been around cats non-stop ever since 1990. I can tell you stories about cats that would floor you. And every last one of them is true.

[devilschaplain2]

Aug 18, 2009 17:05:57 GMT -5 skyfire said:

Aug 18, 2009 3:45:28 GMT -5 Redhunter said:

Granted, all you stated here made me laugh till I teared up, but you had a strategizing, lyrical cat "a with a sense of comedic timing"? What was it... the feline version of the secretly vaudevillian frog from the old WB cartoon?

Wow. Congrats. That was seriously one of the most absolute asanine things I've ever heard in my life.

I can tell you stories about cats that would floor you. And every last one of them is true.

Every story is true. So sayeth Skyfire.

[SimSim]

So say we all!</nerd> Couldn't resist.

[Art Vandelay]

It's been done before. A few years ago the chaser (Australian comedy team) got an online degree in medicine for a dog.

[SimSim]

That one is far scarier.

[Thejebusfire]

Aug 18, 2009 11:24:54 GMT -5 Lady Renae said:

Apparently you don't own a cat. Not sure about the concept of a cat talking (though I have heard one bark... it's a very strange experience), but I'll vouch for the rest as a cat owner myself. Heck, my cat has been known to open doors if they have that handle-type thing instead of a knob. All she has to do is jump up, grab it with both paws, and hang there.

And why is it that cats ALWAYS have to jump under your feet at the last second when you're going up and down staircases?

My cat knows what the door does. He'll sit infront of it and strech his paws out as far as he can, but he can't reach the knob.

My older cat caught a bird in the air. She jumped up, caught it with her paw, did a flip, and landed. It was awesome.