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04-10-2005, 10:30 PM
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| |  The College of Basket Weaving
Have you ever, while surveying college or university course offerings, started to dream up your own pointless courses? 
I used to do this quite frequently, and I ended up having a conversation with somebody recently who reported having done exactly the same. Hence, the inspiration behind this thread. The idea is to design a parody of a university/college calendar by listing courses that are utterly pointless and incongruous.
A couple to start off with:
* Crowd control in the Sahara: This course will survey provide students with a basic understanding of population density problems and urban crowding in the Sahara.
* Star Gazing in Metropolitan New York: An introduction to the night sky and its seasonal changes in New York City.
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04-10-2005, 10:39 PM
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| | Gaming in Real Life: This course is where you take what you learn from games and apply your new-found knowledge to the real world. A Nod to SYM: For this course, you must learn how to become one with SYM and how to converse in the native dialogue of SYM. Once you have your degree you will be acknowledged as a fully-fledged SYMian.
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04-11-2005, 08:02 AM
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| | | Two of these three are made up courses, and one I actually took- which one do you think is real?
(a)Philosophy of celebrity in the 21st century world
(b)Metaphysics of solipsism
(c)The Meaning of Life
The answer is... (c) The Meaning of Life. It was a philosophy course for 2nd semester seniors that tried to deal with existential issues like meaning, fulfillment, etc. Not surprisingly, it was a seminar that met once a week in a bar! (yes, it was an official course, for credit) |
04-11-2005, 12:37 PM
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| | | Human Quantification
The study of assigning a numerical value to every aspect of human life.
Prerequisites: Intelligence 12, Wisdom 14
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04-11-2005, 12:59 PM
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| | | Cultures of Antarctica This course will delve into the complex structure of the peoples indiginous to Antarctica. Expect to cover farming, rites of passage, skyscraper construction, and corporate takeover.
Pre-requisites: Icicles and the loom, cooking with icebergs, slash and burn farming methods on the frozen tundra.
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04-11-2005, 02:38 PM
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| | Applied Physics and Chemistry.
ehmmm... 
-Never mind, it's too silly.... Can't think of anything here.  - |
04-11-2005, 02:51 PM
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| | | Fine Grass: Representing Growing Grass Through Art |
04-11-2005, 02:54 PM
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| | All the college students I know have a different definittion of fine grass Aegis, what college are yougoin to??
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04-11-2005, 02:55 PM
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| | | Grass growing you say?... hmmmm...
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Originally Posted by Aegis Fine Grass: Representing Growing Grass Through Art | In my home state (VT) grass growing is quite a lucrative pastime, and it is the police who are taking pictures (usually from helicopters). Isn't it like that up north, too?  |
04-11-2005, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain82 In my home state (VT) grass growing is quite a lucrative pastime, and it is the police who are taking pictures (usually from helicopters). Isn't it like that up north, too? | Yep! Grass is BC's biggest cash crop! And in the region where it is especially common, there are many, many police helicoptors frequently overhead... Of course... this may also be because there are a number of nude beaches in the same area 
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04-11-2005, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by dragon wench Yep! Grass is BC's biggest cash crop! And in the region where it is especially common, there are many, many police helicoptors frequently overhead... Of course... this may also be because there are a number of nude beaches in the same area | Let me make sure I understand...Nude beaches, excess grass, and a genuine socially responsible government? 
.... I don't really know what else to say- why am I in New York? |
04-11-2005, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain82 Let me make sure I understand...Nude beaches, excess grass, and a genuine socially responsible government?
.... I don't really know what else to say- why am I in New York? | Well..... I don't know that I'd personally go so far as to refer to our government as 'socially responsible' (I think that label more properly applies to the Scandinavian nations) but it is fair to say that in comparison to many other countries we have it pretty good
lmao! It would not surprise you that just after the last US election a joke site pretending to help US Liberals emigrate North via marriage was actually treated seriously by many people who saw it
It can still be viewed here: http://www.marryanamerican.ca/
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testingtest12Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
testingtest12.......All those moments ... will be lost ... in time ... like tears in rain.
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04-11-2005, 03:30 PM
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| | | I work with a girl who was actuallyplanning to emigrate. Couldn't afford it though.
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04-11-2005, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain82 Nude beaches | Nude beaches eh? I must have missed something improtant The Study of Complex human Emotions
I have wondered about that for a very long time now.
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04-11-2005, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by dragon wench * Star Gazing in Metropolitan New York: An introduction to the night sky and its seasonal changes in New York City. | As David Letterman once said: "I love autumn in LA, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees!" - "A Study of the Breeding Patterns of the Modern Dodo Bird"
- "How to Hide a Hamster on a Beserker's Body - Learned Sages Only!"
- "Fathoming the Mind of a Dark Friend Made Simple and Easy!" 
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