40 Second Amusement
Published Apr 14, 2004

See if you can do this. Read each line aloud:
This is this cat.
This is is cat.
This is how cat.
This is to cat.
This is keep cat.
This is a cat.
This is idiot cat.
This is busy cat.
This is for cat.
This is forty cat.
This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top.
Originally published April 15, 2004.