Monday, October 24, 2005

The Adventures of Super Grader and Super Squirrel

Super Grader and her trusty sidekick Super Squirrel prepare to embark upon a long night of defending the city from poorly constructed arguments. What lay ahead for our Super Duo?

Thesis Statement, the pillar of the community and representation of all that is good and holy, has been abducted from her home in the wee hours of the morning. The police have lost all sight of her trail, and it is up to Super Grader to use her super psychic sight to weed through the collected evidence for a hint as to where the kidnappers might be taking her.

The dastardly villain Logical Fallacy and his minions have been spotted near the multi-plex, confusing the audience and ruining their night out at the movies.

The red phone in Super Grader's hideout just rang with news from the mayor - the good people of Paradise City have lost their reasons. It is up to the Super Duo to squirrel out where they've been stashed.

The Untrustworthy Evidence dealers prowl the city streets, looking for naive young people to buy their spun statistics, push polls, and out-of-context quotes, all derived from the most dangerous of black market sources - the internet.

The city water supply has been polluted with run-on sentences, fragments, and the most horrible contaminant of all, incomprehensible gibberish. The water isn't safe to drink, and the city will soon have used up its store of cliches and stock phrases.

The gang war has escalated with the Subject-Verb disagreement ripping through the southside and the Pronoun-Antecedent disagreement leaving the eastside in shambles. The good folk of Paradise City are afraid to leave their homes, afraid of the chaos they might see.

The city itself is littered with typos and misspellings, creating a filthy environment where germs fester and the disease of laziness spreads. Oh why didn't the people read the directions on their Spell and Grammar Check medicines? Why didn't they get the Grammar Handbook vaccination?

Alas, Super Grader and Super Squirrel have their own problems to deal with too. In their lair, the Critical Question countdown has started, and 100 pages still remain before the bomb can be disarmed. A tiny universe from another dimension holds the to key to the world's renewable, sustainable energy problem, yet it remains uncharted. The secret plans for tomorrow night's meeting of superheroines and heroes must be memorized and destroyed.

Can our caped heroine save the city and herself? Tune in tomorrow night for the continuing adventures of . . .

Super Grader and Super Squirrel!

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