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(STLToday) Amusing Republican gubernatorial candidate claims to have an Economics degree. Conveniently omits that it is a Home Economics degree   (stltoday.com) divider line 42
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Somacandra [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 04:46:56 PM
cache.jezebel.com

What a gubernatorial candidate might look like

/hot as a pot roast in the oven
/best MST3K ever
 
bighasbeen [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 05:22:16 PM
So he has a Home Homestuff degree?

/I like Home
 
FishyFred [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 05:30:38 PM
i42.tinypic.com

Spaulding Smails! I always wondered what happened to you!
 
stpauler [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 05:56:40 PM
Who wants muffins?!?
 
FormlessOne
2012-01-10 05:58:32 PM
FTFA: "I was not the greatest student in the world," Spence said. "I'll make fun of myself: I was a 60-watt bulb in a 100-watt society."

"Was"? Friend, you still are, indeed, a 60-watt Chinese incandescent bulb in a world of 100-watt American-made CFL bulbs.

What should depress most people is that meritocratic progress in the United States is dead, and that this moron is living proof of it. Charisma, not intelligence, is the primary stat for anyone roleplaying a businessman these days. The promise of a technologically based meritocracy is dead, and morons like this guy killed it because they couldn't profit from it.
 
stpauler [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 05:59:28 PM
Somacandra: [cache.jezebel.com image 300x181]

What a gubernatorial candidate might look like

/hot as a pot roast in the oven
/best MST3K ever

A 5 pound potty? She must have had a big breakfast!
 
CitizensUnited
2012-01-10 06:05:20 PM
to be fair to the guy, if my degree were in "home economics", I would go around telling everyone that it was in economics as well.
 
buckler [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 06:07:22 PM
I had a cooking and baking class as an elective in HS. Great way to meet teen girls. Then again, I wasn't Republican.
 
ps69
2012-01-10 06:10:54 PM
Maybe he can bake an upper lip for himself and sew it on.
 
casual disregard [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 06:12:06 PM
I was so willing to cut this dude some slack. Maybe it's just a poor choice of words, maybe their idea of home economics is more rigorous than baking muffins and ironing shirts.

Then I read TFA:

"Spence said Monday that, while at Mizzou, his grades did not meet the threshold to enter the Business School, so he chose a different academic path that would allow him to graduate on time."

fark me. fark us all. And most of all fark Spence.
 
Grand Architect
2012-01-10 06:15:05 PM
Well I'm told the Fed's Budget is just like your homes budget, so Home Economics is totally useful right?
 
RobbieFal
2012-01-10 06:22:14 PM
this guy started off his campaign by donating $2M to his campaign. Plastics make it possible.

And he'll also omit details on the jobs he's planning to bring to Missouri. Just because.
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 06:26:03 PM
He looks like the kind of guy that would take a home ec class

/NTTAWWT
//as long as he stays out of airport restrooms
 
Nina_Hartley's_Ass
2012-01-10 06:28:40 PM
www.boatwrightphoto.com

/goober can cook?
 
CravenMorehead
2012-01-10 06:30:43 PM
I took home economics in high school (required course). The idiot teacher told me I had to wash a pot before I put it away. All I used the pot for was to boil water. When I told her that she told me I still had to wash it. Idiot.
 
Lando Lincoln [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 06:30:54 PM
Yeah, 220, 221. Whatever it takes.
 
draa
2012-01-10 06:35:52 PM
FTA:"I'll make fun of myself: I was a 60-watt bulb in a 100-watt society."

And now you're just an incandescent in a world of CFL's. What an asshat.
 
SN1987a goes boom
2012-01-10 06:36:11 PM
A dumbass from Mizzou, who'd a thunk it?
 
skepticultist
2012-01-10 06:44:40 PM
"I was not the greatest student in the world," Spence said. "I'll make fun of myself: I was a 60-watt bulb in a 100-watt society. Now I think I'm qualified to be your governor. Vote for me."

/i hate this country somedays...
 
LazarusLong42 [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 06:44:48 PM
FormlessOne: Charisma, not intelligence, is the primary stat for anyone roleplaying a businessman these days. The promise of a technologically based meritocracy is dead, and morons like this guy killed it because they couldn't profit from it.

So you're saying most politicians and businessmen are sorcerers rahter than wizards? That would certainly explain why they keep doing the same thing over and over again rather than trying to be more versatile.

/They all took Wisdom as a dump stat though.
 
SixPaperJoint
2012-01-10 06:46:51 PM
Says it on his wiki page too.
 
FishyFred [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 06:48:43 PM
SixPaperJoint: Says it on his wiki page too.

Shiat just got real.
 
birchman
2012-01-10 06:49:30 PM
ahahahahaha
 
mercator_psi
2012-01-10 06:50:07 PM
stpauler: Somacandra: [cache.jezebel.com image 300x181]

What a gubernatorial candidate might look like

/hot as a pot roast in the oven
/best MST3K ever

A 5 pound potty? She must have had a big breakfast!

Kegs will be tapped; men will be used.

FormlessOne: FTFA: "I was not the greatest student in the world," Spence said. "I'll make fun of myself: I was a 60-watt bulb in a 100-watt society."

"Was"? Friend, you still are, indeed, a 60-watt Chinese incandescent bulb in a world of 100-watt American-made CFL bulbs.

This.

What should depress most people is that meritocratic progress in the United States is dead, and that this moron is living proof of it. Charisma, not intelligence, is the primary stat for anyone roleplaying a businessman these days. The promise of a technologically based meritocracy is dead, and morons like this guy killed it because they couldn't profit from it.

And that.
 
Aidan
2012-01-10 07:01:56 PM
Okay, that's totally hilarious!

Oh. It's for real? shiat.
 
culebra
2012-01-10 07:02:12 PM
It wasn't intended to be a factual degree, you guys!
 
Ant
2012-01-10 07:20:33 PM
SixPaperJoint: Says it on his wiki page too.

I just changed it to Home Economics
 
Sparky The Wonder Ferret [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 07:25:05 PM
Also from the article:

Of course, a business degree is not required for success after graduation.

Four years after leaving Mizzou, Spence used a small business loan to purchase Alpha Packaging, which grew exponentially under his watch.

After about 25 years at the helm, Spence sold the company, which produces more than a billion plastic containers a year, for a reported $260 million.

He also serves as a real-word model for the business school that wouldn't let him in as an undergraduate: Spence helped create the "entrepreneurship alliance" that offers Mizzou business students the chance to interact with actual executives.
 
WizardofToast
2012-01-10 07:34:48 PM
A degree? College elitists.
 
A Dark Evil Omen
2012-01-10 07:35:55 PM
I'm a complete goddamned idiot! Vote for me!
 
jmr61 [TotalFark]
2012-01-10 08:05:15 PM
Sparky The Wonder Ferret: Also from the article:

Of course, a business degree is not required for success after graduation.

Four years after leaving Mizzou, Spence used a small business loan to purchase Alpha Packaging, which grew exponentially under his watch.

After about 25 years at the helm, Spence sold the company, which produces more than a billion plastic containers a year, for a reported $260 million.

He also serves as a real-word model for the business school that wouldn't let him in as an undergraduate: Spence helped create the "entrepreneurship alliance" that offers Mizzou business students the chance to interact with actual executives.


Intentionally trying to look smarter than he is is pretty douchey but any person who can build a company from scratch and sell it from a quarter a billion has something going on.

Assuming that is true.

Missourians? What know you?
 
madden101
2012-01-10 08:46:29 PM
jmr61: Intentionally trying to look smarter than he is is pretty douchey but any person who can build a company from scratch and sell it from a quarter a billion has something going on.

Assuming that is true.

Missourians? What know you?

He went to Kirkwood, so he probably sucks. To be honest, I've never heard of him. I'm alright with the job Nixon's done, especially with trying to help get St. Louis/Lambert set up as a hub for Chinese companies. Lord knows we could use some business coming in rather than leaving town.
 
Huck And Molly Ziegler
2012-01-10 08:53:21 PM
"I majored in Education." (Physical Education)

"I majored in ..." in .... well, darn it, I don't have any others.
 
lasercannon
2012-01-10 08:57:43 PM
buckler: I had a cooking and baking class as an elective in HS. Great way to meet teen girls. Then again, I wasn't Republican.

I tried to get into a high school cooking class to meet teenage girls, but it didn't work. The instructor had some problem with me not filling out the right form to get into the class or me being thirty at the time or something, I can't really remember what the problem was.
 
gameshowhost
2012-01-10 09:06:59 PM
jmr61: but any person who can build a company from scratch and sell it from a quarter a billion has something going on.

No.

/all it takes are a nice confluence of a few market failures, some hush/bribe money or a bit of crime
//in these cases all one has to be is "not completely incompetent"
///besides which he bought an existing company with a gov't-subsidized loan
 
Sum Dum Gai
2012-01-10 09:15:54 PM
I don't really think that thirty-year-old grades mean much of anything. Thirty-day-old grades are hardly much of a story.

I have mixed feelings over whether I think he's been a successful businessman, though I'm not sure how well either grades or business acumen would translate into political office. Different jobs require different skill sets, and how a person does in one arena is not a good prediction of their success in other areas.
 
Rapmaster2000
2012-01-10 09:29:56 PM
Somacandra: [cache.jezebel.com image 300x181]

What a gubernatorial candidate might look like

/hot as a pot roast in the oven
/best MST3K ever

The very important job of being Mrs. Bill Johnson.

Oooooohhhhhhh!
 
BMulligan
2012-01-10 10:18:21 PM
Sum Dum Gai: I don't really think that thirty-year-old grades mean much of anything. Thirty-day-old grades are hardly much of a story.

I have mixed feelings over whether I think he's been a successful businessman, though I'm not sure how well either grades or business acumen would translate into political office. Different jobs require different skill sets, and how a person does in one arena is not a good prediction of their success in other areas.

It was my impression that the issue here was not so much the grades as the brazen misrepresentation.

And I suspect that was your impression, too.
 
sgleason818
2012-01-10 10:29:12 PM
Who will be her friends?
Who will be her blood enemies?

Windowpane.
 
Alphax
2012-01-11 04:52:09 AM
'I is a business leader. I can haz governorship? I'll buy it!'
 
Grungehamster
2012-01-11 07:37:30 AM
Surprised there aren't more comments about him choosing to claim he is 60 on an intelligence scale where the average for society is 100. If only there was a more definitive scale than a lightbulb metaphor one could use to measure his intelligence with those parameters...
 
phyrkrakr
2012-01-11 12:16:23 PM
FTFA:

According to the university, Spence's degree is not in economics. It is in home economics.

"I was not the greatest student in the world," Spence said. "I'll make fun of myself: I was a 60-watt bulb in a 100-watt society."

Spence said Monday that, while at Mizzou, his grades did not meet the threshold to enter the Business School.

"I had a great time in school," said Spence, who was rush chair of his fraternity. "But I think my record out of school speaks for itself."

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