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  • #76
    Originally posted by Starlight View Post
    As someone who worked hard myself to obtain a real doctorate, it's mildly offensive to see honorary ones given away as freebies. That said, I've never come across anyone who takes honorary ones at all seriously in any situation.
    So, I take it you won't be calling her Doctor Dingbat? I hope you don't mind if I do.

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    • #77
      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
      As someone who worked hard myself to obtain a real doctorate, it's mildly offensive to see honorary ones given away as freebies. That said, I've never come across anyone who takes honorary ones at all seriously in any situation.
      The first lot seem to have indeed been participation certificates: members of the king's retinue were handed honorary doctorates when he visited a university, but they come in different flavours. Maybe those who have earned their honorary doctorates the hard way are the victims of the system.
      1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
      .
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      Scripture before Tradition:
      but that won't prevent others from
      taking it upon themselves to deprive you
      of the right to call yourself Christian.

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      • #78
        Originally posted by Starlight View Post
        As someone who worked hard myself to obtain a real doctorate, it's mildly offensive to see honorary ones given away as freebies.
        Yes, sir - agreed 100%. Too often, an honorary doctorate is given to somebody who has contributed a lot of money to that institution, which sure looks like "buying the degree", not earning it.

        That said, I've never come across anyone who takes honorary ones at all seriously in any situation.
        Actually, I know a few people who have "honorary" degrees who act like they earned them, but that takes a 'special' kind of person.

        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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        • #79
          Originally posted by Ronson View Post
          So, I take it you won't be calling her Doctor Dingbat? I hope you don't mind if I do.
          Sure, if you call me Dr Star.
          "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
          "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
          "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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          • #80
            Originally posted by Starlight View Post
            Like how he just approved a massive Alaskan oil drilling project last week, that had environmentalists really upset?

            Sometimes the things you write read like total fantasy.
            Care to wager that will die in bureaucratic red tape or law suits that the government doesn't challenge before it ever gets started?

            I'm always still in trouble again

            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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            • #81
              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
              As someone who worked hard myself to obtain a real doctorate, it's mildly offensive to see honorary ones given away as freebies. That said, I've never come across anyone who takes honorary ones at all seriously in any situation.
              FWIU, Bill Cosby took several of his very seriously

              I'm always still in trouble again

              "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
              "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
              "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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              • #82
                It's not like you can use these degrees to apply for some professors position at a college. Is there any college in the world that has hired someone based on these degrees?


                I recall that Bob Dylan received an honorary degree.

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                • #83
                  Several notable degree awards...

                  Ryan Giggs is most commonly known for kicking a ball around and sleeping with his sister-in-law. His great achievements were acknowledged by a Master of Arts from the University of Salford in 2008. In a typically florid statement, the United player gushed: “When I started my career as a footballer I didn’t envisage that one day I’d be made Master of Arts.” Neither did we, Ryan.

                  Dannii, the lesser Minogue and X Factor Judge, was recognised as a Doctor of Media by Southampton Solent University in 2011. In a statement, Minogue claimed to be ‘shocked and honoured’, probably because she had never actually been to Southampton.

                  Zimbabwean President Mugabe was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Edinburgh in 1984, despite four years in power marked by mass disappearances, rape and murder.
                  In a statement at the time, Edinburgh explained that he was being honoured “not only for his extraordinary intellectual discipline and energy but for those qualities of statesmanship which made him one of the great figures of modern Africa.”



                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                    Several notable degree awards...

                    Ryan Giggs is most commonly known for kicking a ball around and sleeping with his sister-in-law. His great achievements were acknowledged by a Master of Arts from the University of Salford in 2008. In a typically florid statement, the United player gushed: “When I started my career as a footballer I didn’t envisage that one day I’d be made Master of Arts.” Neither did we, Ryan.

                    Dannii, the lesser Minogue and X Factor Judge, was recognised as a Doctor of Media by Southampton Solent University in 2011. In a statement, Minogue claimed to be ‘shocked and honoured’, probably because she had never actually been to Southampton.

                    Zimbabwean President Mugabe was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Edinburgh in 1984, despite four years in power marked by mass disappearances, rape and murder.
                    In a statement at the time, Edinburgh explained that he was being honoured “not only for his extraordinary intellectual discipline and energy but for those qualities of statesmanship which made him one of the great figures of modern Africa.”


                    I see that Kermit the Frog got an award too. He (it) seems to be the most deserving in the list.
                    1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
                    .
                    ⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛
                    Scripture before Tradition:
                    but that won't prevent others from
                    taking it upon themselves to deprive you
                    of the right to call yourself Christian.

                    ⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by tabibito View Post

                      I see that Kermit the Frog got an award too. He (it) seems to be the most deserving in the list.
                      It's not easy being green

                      I'm always still in trouble again

                      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by tabibito View Post

                        I see that Kermit the Frog got an award too. He (it) seems to be the most deserving in the list.
                        Yes, that's why I omitted that one.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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