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ImageSMART TALK
by Dr. Les Terse

BUNNY RABBIT:  Occasionally, the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired must endure the kind of perky patients who say, "Have a nice day" and "Keep a positive mental attitude."  They draw smiley faces on their correspondence.  We consider it a blessing to get them occasionally rather than constantly.

These people think some animals are just too cute to name only once.  Besides bunny rabbits, they gush over kitty cats, pussycats, and puppy dogs.  Baby chicks and baby kittens get insulted this way, as well.  Not that they mind, of course, but this practice teaches impressionable children to use redundancies, and they grow up sounding vacuous.

It's downright inhumane, if not to the animals, then to us.

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