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SmackLT		2010-05-05 04:01:37 PM

Engineer?

Barbigazi		2010-05-05 04:03:29 PM

Serial killer?

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat		2010-05-05 04:05:44 PM

Government Bureaucrat?

Barbigazi		2010-05-05 04:07:58 PM

Giant space spider?

Nabb1		2010-05-05 04:11:01 PM

Law degree. Has to be a law degree.

Oh, wait. It says 90% chance of employment.

Hau Ruck		2010-05-05 04:37:13 PM

Ball washer?

Cagey B		2010-05-05 05:08:20 PM

I'm a psychotic ex-con, so I only have clowns to the left of me. Of course, jokers have occupied the space to my right, so it's a wash.

MaxxLarge		2010-05-05 05:09:15 PM

I'll bet that this program presents
Some training that really makes sense.
The circus might SEEM
Like a really fun dream,
But working? It's pretty in tents.

kmmontandon		2010-05-05 05:11:07 PM

you're guaranteed to be surrounded by clowns

Same as every other job I've ever held, then.

Knara		2010-05-05 05:14:11 PM

Most people with degrees are clowns in one way or another.

/Times Square "Bomber" had a 2.7 in his Info Systems major
//TWO POINT SEVEN

otto the bull		2010-05-05 05:19:14 PM

Police Academy?

Rapmaster2000		2010-05-05 05:20:28 PM

I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.

LittleSmitty		2010-05-05 05:20:37 PM

Too bad they don't offer a degree in joint rolling

OCB FTW!

A Shambling Mound		2010-05-05 05:21:32 PM

~~On the upside, your degree gives you a 90% chance of employment. On the downside,~~ you're guaranteed to be surrounded by clowns

Thanks, Ric.

LeroyB		2010-05-05 05:21:34 PM

What, like if you get a degree from Clown College?

mikaloyd		2010-05-05 05:22:21 PM

A mime in a clown car?

macdaddy357		2010-05-05 05:24:15 PM

A clown college in the UK? I guess they are running low on talent at Piccadilly Circus.

Rufus Lee King		2010-05-05 05:24:21 PM

Approves.

Hannibal222		2010-05-05 05:24:32 PM

Doesn't 90% change of employment mean 10% unemployment?

As in average?

doobliebop		2010-05-05 05:25:02 PM

If the unemployment rate is currently around 10%, you have a 90% chance of getting a job anyway...

Richard_The_Clown		2010-05-05 05:25:11 PM

A coworker who didn't know better actually said to me, "What are ya, a clown or something?" I looked her right in the eye and said, "Actually, yes!"

phildeez		2010-05-05 05:26:03 PM

There are far too many people currently in college that do not belong there.

That is all.

/DNRTFA

NorCalLos		2010-05-05 05:27:53 PM

What a clown college graduate may look like

Farker T		2010-05-05 05:28:27 PM

KajakPro		2010-05-05 05:29:33 PM

Hannibal222: Doesn't 90% change of employment mean 10% unemployment?

As in average?

doobliebop: If the unemployment rate is currently around 10%, you have a 90% chance of getting a job anyway...

I'm gonna guess they mean 90% in the feild within X years of graduation.

taylonr		2010-05-05 05:29:45 PM

Knara: Most people with degrees are clowns in one way or another.

/Times Square "Bomber" had a 2.7 in his Info Systems major
//TWO POINT SEVEN

Don't you have to TRY to get that low of a GPA as an IS major?

doobliebop		2010-05-05 05:29:58 PM

doobliebop: If the unemployment rate is currently around 10%, you have a 90% chance of getting a job anyway...

Hannibal222: Doesn't 90% change of employment mean 10% unemployment?

As in average?

Actually...this is about double the typical unemployment rate of workers with a bachelors degree:
www.mymoneyblog.com

Rufus Lee King		2010-05-05 05:34:31 PM

Knara		2010-05-05 05:34:38 PM

taylonr: Don't you have to TRY to get that low of a GPA as an IS major?

All I know is, I knew some pretty thick meatheads who got much higher GPAs than that in Info Systems

Sabyen91		2010-05-05 05:36:48 PM

Dentist?

Jaakobi		2010-05-05 05:43:24 PM

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Government Bureaucrat?

Sorry, Congress is what we were looking for. Congress.

Ducid Reamer		2010-05-05 06:04:33 PM

...in the 10% bracket

wearemoviegeeks.com

chatter king		2010-05-05 06:32:23 PM

Bring in the clowns

booklover555		2010-05-05 06:40:10 PM

It's really not nice to refer to my students that way.

/class clowns, all of them
//except the ones who aren't smart enough

Richard_The_Clown		2010-05-05 06:43:19 PM

NorCalLos:

Steve-O Pic

/What a Clown College graduate may look like

God, I auditioned with that douche. Even the guys who went to Clown College with him thought he was a douche. Glad Kenneth Feld didn't pick him to be in the show.

txt3.tv

/another Clown College graduate...
//Pic is hot, like the topless girls on Bullshiat...

NorCalLos		2010-05-05 07:00:06 PM

Re: Steve-O, I'm not sure I'd want to hang out with the guy, but I find his self-destructive AW'ing quite amusing.

the_chief		2010-05-05 07:23:26 PM

I want a letter of rejection from clown college so I can frame it on my wall.

NorCalLos		2010-05-05 07:33:28 PM

the_chief: I want a letter of rejection from clown college so I can frame it on my wall.

I hear it's more difficult to get into that Harvard or something, statistically speaking. I'm sure that other clown will inform us.

eggi541		2010-05-05 07:35:37 PM

the_chief: I want a letter of rejection from clown college so I can frame it on my wall.

Have to apply to one first.

lake_huron		2010-05-05 09:42:16 PM

Rapmaster2000: I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.

I'm way, way too slow to ever post these sorts of things first...

www.jrj-socrates.com

lake_huron		2010-05-05 09:43:59 PM

NorCalLos: the_chief: I want a letter of rejection from clown college so I can frame it on my wall.

I hear it's more difficult to get into that Harvard or something, statistically speaking. I'm sure that other clown will inform us.

A friend of mine seriously considered it for a while and showed us the application. It required a knowledge of performing arts, physical comedy, and the history of clowns, including things like essays on who your favorite clown was and why.

It's not like Brown; you have to actually know something to get in.

NorCalLos		2010-05-06 01:33:18 AM

lake_huron: NorCalLos: the_chief: I want a letter of rejection from clown college so I can frame it on my wall.

I hear it's more difficult to get into that Harvard or something, statistically speaking. I'm sure that other clown will inform us.

A friend of mine seriously considered it for a while and showed us the application. It required a knowledge of performing arts, physical comedy, and the history of clowns, including things like essays on who your favorite clown was and why.

It's not like Brown; you have to actually know something to get in.

According to wikipedia (the mother of all sources), Ringling Bros. and B&B's Clown College is more difficult to get into than any ivy league school.

dbirchall		2010-05-06 04:36:28 PM

My alma mater is Australia's only government-accredited institution to offer degrees in "circus arts."

/No, I majored in something else.
//Wouldn't know it, some days at work...

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