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Why Does God Hate Amputees?


Marshall Brain
Marshall Brain
whydoesgodhateamputees.com

Posted: Sep 1, 2005

It would have to be a teacher’s worst nightmare.

Imagine that you are a high school English teacher. You are standing at the front of the classroom working through the day’s lesson. Perhaps you and your students are studying verb conjugation, or analyzing one of Shakespeare’s plays. It is another normal day in the American education system, and you have a lot of material to cover.

Then the sound fills your classroom. Gunshots. And screaming. A gunman has entered the school and is shooting at people as he makes his way down the hallway toward your classroom.

What would you do?

(...)


Marshall Brain is a fellow of the IEET, and the author of The Day You Discard Your Body, Manna and the founder of HowStuffWorks.com.
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