Conquering the length requirement

My friend Allen emailed me the link to this video explaining how to make a paper longer by making the periods all a larger font size.

I replied with all the reasons from a teacher's point of view why this and other ideas like it (changing the character spacing, changing the space between lines, etc...) are stupid: the teacher will be able to detect the flaws in the paper anyway; length requirements aren't all that important; the visual comparision that exists between the paper with gigantic periods and the many, mnay other papers by students who did things correctly. But aside from all of these points, there exists one major flaw in the plan.

Teachers are not stupid.

Point the first: We have access to the internet, and we know how google works. Also, we have friends that send us links to help us scout out the little cheating rats that lurk in our otherwise beautiful classrooms.

Point b: (see what I did there? Aren't I clever?) We know which students are simply incapable of putting together a long enough string of intelligent thoughts to fulfill the length requirement on a paper. We'll notice if they suddenly do so. We're not terribly concerned with whether or not the smart students make up the last half page or not.

Point 3: (There's a line in one of the Ramona books that goes like this: "First time funny; second time silly; third time spanking." I guess I'll end the cleverness before its gets truly out of hand.) Finally, the simple fact that some imbecile wasted his time figuring this out, and videoing it and uploading it, and the fact that such a huge number of people have watched and commented only speaks to the enormous waste of time ideas like this one are. Honestly, if you'd put the hour and a hlaf it took you to figure that out into revising and proofreading your paper, you'd have realized that half the points you think you made need to be expanded by 4 or 5 sentences each. Do that and you'll meet your length requirement.