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Most schools, colleges and universities have thriving alumni assocations. These provide excellent peer-group networking opportunities and reunion meetings for far-flung ex-colleagues.
To assist an apparently large group of unfairly disadvantaged would-be networkers, I propose to start a special
alumnus group, the DDA (Dodgy Diploma Association). Membership is open only to those who have cleverly bought their qualification from a diploma mill, without the sometimes tedious years of study endured by more normal folk.
The meetings would be an eye opener: bogus lawyers, bent executives, dodgy social climbers, all sharing in their hugely inflated success stories. Potential police presence might be a worry, but hey, if it hasn't worried them in the past.......
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At the reunion we don't have to eat steak and green beans, we can eat whatever we want because WE MADE IT, man! |
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A further thought. With an annual membership fee of $49, a huge global membership base and a purely virtual presence, this might be an even bigger earner than the bogus diploma mills themselves. |
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They also have to send out fancy magazines with touched up photos that show alumni together with made up celebrities. |
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...and provide laminated cards for your wallet, and pleather jackets with crests. |
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Maybe a slogan: "eo refercio, rite hac". |
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And no fund-raising drives to build a
new lecture theatre either... |
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Motto: "Veni, vidi, vani" ?
Or: "Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest" |
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I think I like the second one, if only because none of them will know what it means. |
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[Unabbuba], is that "I went to Harvaad and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"? |
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No. It means, "A thing is only worth what someone else will pay for it." |
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Is there an association for honorary degree holders, too? |
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There is a t-shirt they sell hereabouts that has a big crest, some pig latin, and the words "University of Life" underneath it. |
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