Shaq: Letting Down the Children

There was a time when Shaquille O’Neal cared about the children and literacy. Check out this PSA he did.

Look at that true hero–a good basketball player, great actor and best reason to learn how to read.

But sadly Shaq has turned his back on the children and on reading. I’m speaking of course about his Twitter account, @THE_REAL_SHAQ. His grammar, spelling and punctuation are so bad, he’s setting a terrible example for today’s children. Look at these random examples of Shaq’s tweets I specially picked out to illustrate my post.

Pls 4give me? U hv 20 min? U set yo self up 4 dat 1? Can these words really come from the same man that once told children, “When you know how to read, adventures come to you.” Shaq obviously doesn’t care about children any longer. Sure, he’s involved with Feed the Children, but how are they supposed to eat when they can’t even read the nutritional information?

But don’t worry, I’ve taken it upon myself to right this wrong. I created the Twitter account, @SHAQ_EDITED where I’ve started copy editing every one of Shaq’s tweets.

It’s a long process, not helped by Twitter’s limit to how many tweets you can add per hour, but I promise you I will correct every Shaq tweet until I get bored by it.

And while I don’t consider myself hero, if you want to call me one because I’m taking the time to set a good example for the children, I won’t stop you.

UPDATE

Shaq and I just took the first step on the road to becoming best friends.

Pretty soon we’ll have our own reality TV show on Mtv. It’ll be like Rob and Big, with Shaq as the rich superstar and me as the lovable bodyguard. I should probably start abusing steroids now, just to get ready.

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Tags: editing, featured, grammar, Shaq, spelling, twitter

Internet, Writing | Adam | March 1, 2009 4:30 pm

9 Comments

By indiescutable, March 2, 2009 @ 12:36 am

That page doesn’t exist!
By Adam, March 2, 2009 @ 9:29 am

Oops, one of the links was broken. Try again. http://twitter.com/SHAQ_EDITED
By Christina Rodriguez, March 2, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

Adam, could you put a link to Shaq’s Twitter on Shaq_Edited’s Twitter as well? Just to make it easier to compare the two on a regular basis? Thanks!
By Mike Damanskis, March 2, 2009 @ 10:14 pm

Amazing!
By Juan, March 2, 2009 @ 11:40 pm

All you Shaq haters… just cause he plays like Kevin Duckworth now doesn’t mean he cant say things like, “Yo Kobe tell me how my @$$ tastes.”
;P
By Robert Brinkerhoff, March 3, 2009 @ 11:34 am

I’m enjoying this stuff Adam. Keep at it.
By kelseroo, March 24, 2009 @ 6:00 pm

I think Shaq’s downfall was when he made this movie: http://www.impawards.com/1996/posters/kazaam.jpg
By Camille, May 26, 2009 @ 10:49 am

You are a real Hero!!