She is on her 3rd reincatnation and making no progress. A butcheress still.
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| University offers first Beatles degree |
| 2009-03-04 |
| A university in Liverpool has launched a Master of Arts degree in The Beatles, the city's most famous sons, and called the qualification the first of its kind. I've felt this inner emptiness all these many years. This wasn't what was missing. Liverpool Hope University says on its website that the course entitled "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society" consists of four 12-week taught modules and a dissertation. Think of the many hundreds of pages you could write discusing the existential meaning of Then when I awokeWhy, you could crank out a 900-pager just on Yoko. And she couldn't even sing. The best she could do was to shake a tambourine. "There have been over 8,000 books about The Beatles but there has never been serious academic study and that is what we are going to address," said Mike Brocken, senior lecturer in popular music at Hope. One wonders why. "Forty years on from their break-up, now is the right time and Liverpool is the right place to study The Beatles. "Everybody's unemployed, there is no work, so we might as well piss our time away studying the inconsequential." "This MA is expected to attract a great deal of attention, not just locally but nationally and we have already had enquiries from abroad, particularly the United States." ... where the inconsequential presented in a Brit accent is particularly prized... The university said it was the first postgraduate taught course on The Beatles in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world. And by Gum, I have an idea why. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 She is on her 3rd reincatnation and making no progress. A butcheress still. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2009-03-04 19:48 |
| #9 What about the Lizzie Borden course? Kitteh wants to know. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2009-03-04 19:43 |
| #8 No minor in Spice Girls?! |
| Posted by: Dar 2009-03-04 14:13 |
| #7 Looking forward to a degree in N'Sync myself, kinda the beatles of my time. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-03-04 11:35 |
| #6 Some of the classes I took in college... The Gangster in American Cinema The Black Sox Scandal The Lizzie Borden Murder and American Society American Counterculture Good flicks in the first one. The second and third were actually productive since they made you learn how to research, and this was a long time before the internet. The fourth one, great for acquiring good weed and hippie chicks... And this was thirty years ago. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-04 09:51 |
| #5 Now now folks, cab trips to the airport would be so much more entertaining if the cabbie had this degree ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-03-04 09:28 |
| #4 A scam worthy of a mafioso, I bet some con-man some where is pissed they didn't think of this first. Watch berkley follow suit w/a degree in the Grateful Dead... |
| Posted by: Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-03-04 09:06 |
| #3 They're all paper mills now. No integrity to the original concept of 'institutions of higher learning', just 'how much can be separate the gullible from their income' to keep the academic gentry in the life style they believe they're entitled to. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-03-04 07:21 |
| #2 Dammit Ed, you beat me to it. What a worthless "Degree". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim (WMOF) 2009-03-04 01:00 |
| #1 "Would you like to super size your order of fish and chips?" |
| Posted by: ed 2009-03-04 00:47 |