Comments on: GDU Defends Status as Champion Laughingstock of North America

By: Funnier and funnier! « Funny about Money

Funnier and funnier! « Funny about Money — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:30:01 +0000

[...] the President of the United States to give this spring’s commencement address but announcing he hasn’t accomplished enough to deserve an honorary [...]

By: funnyaboutmoney1

funnyaboutmoney1 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:11:10 +0000

My mother used to look at a spectacular Arizona sunset and say, “If you painted that, no one would believe it.”

Well, it’s like that with GDU. Only ever so much more outrageous!

By: Chance

Chance — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:39:02 +0000

I am laughing out loud! I too have believed in the past that you have a knack storytelling, and all good storytelling includes a little stretch…but I see from the papers that you are but a faithful and factual reporter. As they say in VT, CMTSU (can’t make this s**t up). Hilarious and yes, indeedy, tis mighty white of them.

By: funnyaboutmoney1

funnyaboutmoney1 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:30:22 +0000

Tickets are reserved for graduating students and families. I think faculty can get them, but of course I won’t be faculty by next spring. Thank goodness!

The beauty of GDU is that you don’t have to exaggerate. All you have to do is report what they say, word for word.

By: frugalscholar

frugalscholar — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:45:01 +0000

I keep thinking you’re exaggerating . . .

Something similar happened (on a smaller scale) at a school where I once taught. Frances Moore Lappe (of Diet for a Small Planet fame) was an alum and invited to give a speech. The biology department resisted giving her an honorary degree, on the grounds that she was a popular author and her work wasn’t “real science.” I can’t remember what the upshot was–I think she was granted the degree–but the discussion took weeks.

Do you have a ticket?