Is this a sign of desperate times? They're actually selling high school diplomas. This was in my hotmail inbox today. I've removed the telephone numbers: YOU NEED A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA To obtain a prosperous future, money earning power, and the admiration of all you need a high school diploma. You can earn a high school diploma from a prestigious non-accredited high school based on your present knowledge and life experience. No required tests, classes, books, or interviews. No one is turned down. Confidentiality assured. CALL NOW to receive your high school diploma within days!!! 1 - 602 - 2X4 - XXXX Call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including Sundays and holidays. In the event anyone wants to follow up with some relevant authorities, I have retained the actual telephone number.
Perhaps desperate, perhaps just opening new markets. After all, once you've got your computer graphics software set up, it's no harder to crank out a high school diploma as it is to crank out a college diploma. Jack
Good point, Jack. It is disturbing though; we're talking about what my grandmother would call "barefaced" fraud.
Hi David, Could you please send this in its entirety to my e-mail address at [email protected]. I'm working away on "Bears' Guide to Earning a High School Diploma Nontraditionally" and would be interested in seeing it. Thanks! Tom Nixon
The secret of life! Found at last! The "admiration of all?" Whoa, this must be a special high school diploma! How much extra is a Ph.D?
Re: The secret of life! Found at last! Combo #4, Go Large! 1 High School Diploma 1 BA 1 MBA 1 PhD And 1 large Pepsi. $499
Russell (joking): Russell A. Morris AA: Chasse College [$100] (etc.) Four frames from Wal-Mart [$69] ------------------------------------------------- Calvin Trillin has a wonderful maxim for newly published authors, something like this: "When the cost of your ceremonial lunch with the publisher exceeds the amount of the marketing budget for your book, you know you're in trouble." How about the Morris Axiom: If the cost of the frame exceeds the cost of the diploma in it, you have a time bomb hanging on your wall.
You have a point here, John. Will this be printed in the next edition of Bears' Guide? If so, will I receive royalties off the axiom?
