Comes now Bishop Beaver College

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  1. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    http://uk.geocities.com/bishop_beaver_college/theology.html

    "Welcome to St. Michael’s School of Theology from Rev. Dr. Vera Calico, Dean of the School of Theology and Vice Chancellor of Bishop Beaver College
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    With such deep and abiding roots in the original spirituality of Christian life in Sussex, the School of Theology is honoured to be able to provide seekers with a path to the fulfillment of their goals. The material world about us revels in the successes and achievements of matters that mean nothing to us here on Seals Island. Meanwhile our community here cares not a whit for the foolish things of this world and we remain apart and above the mean squabbling on this mortal coil. Join us here and learn what it truly means to find a vocation apart.
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    The website makes clear that it's a joke . . . but if it really is, why did they just try to buy an ad in the Chronicle of Higher Education for the "St. Arius Adjunct Lectureship in Celtic Spirituality. The Centre for Celtic Spirituality at Bishop Beaver College seeks enquiries into the methods and substance of Celtic Spirituality from prehistoric times to the modern day. Proposals that address more than two historical periods or that make references to crystals will be especially welcomed."
     
  2. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    ROFLMAO!
     
  3. galanga

    galanga New Member

    because

    J: "why did they just try to buy an ad..."

    G: perhaps it is black humor done in detail? The things one reads about the un-doesn't-negate-sufficiently-strongly-wonderful garbage scows that sell clinical degrees to incompetents and engineering degrees to criminals, and whose shills claim that a self-accrediting academic fraud is a prince of higher learning, and whose supporting sites hijack the names of independent diploma mills run by their shills, who continue to shill for them anyway, and on and on... can make you want to shriek and wave your arms about. So maybe that's what is going on: they are a bit over the top with this.

    Feathered roadkill is not a soaring eagle. Rotten entrails smeared on the gravel does not a university make, no matter how many business licenses it has. Real professors do not teach 128 credits of difficult material to thousands of students in a matter of days. Grapefruit juice poured into skim milk isn't ice cream, even if the Freedonian Vice Consul says so. Nobody speaks Esperanto like a native, in spite of anything said by a charlatan with a fistful of doctoral degrees and a DSL line.

    And pigeons don't deserve real college degrees.

    G
     
  4. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    The weird thing is, bits and pieces of their "history" seem more or less accurate.

    Frankly, I thought it was a hoot!
     
  5. agilham

    agilham New Member

    I *love* the postcode and the research facilities are excellent!

    The Rev Vera Calico would be welcome to sleep on the end of my bed at any time ;-)

    Angela
     
  6. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    My own calico looks a LOT like the good Reverend. Well, her collar is, perhaps, somewhat less formal.

    I agree on the research facilities but I was disappointed to learn that the fellowships are non-stipendiary.

    I didn't get the post code though...
     
  7. agilham

    agilham New Member

    Oh dear. Is it as bad as the flourescent yellow leopardskin print I inflicted on my late and much lamented Cloudie cat?

    If the cocktails are free, I really don't give a stuff about the stipend!

    The map was good as well. Even In Oxford I haven't seen quite that many PHs amongst the colleges.

    Think about the closeness of outline between the letter S and the numeral 5 ;-)

    Angela
     
  8. VeraCalico

    VeraCalico New Member

    Arius Lectureship

    I had two very fine applications for the non-stipendiary lectureship, one called me a genius and the other asked if herbs and runes could be substiuted for crystals. Being an administrator I am readily swung by flattery so the genius application got the offer.
    I thank you all for taking note of our fine institution. A great deal of work went into making the map so I am happy to hear that even it is appreciated. Angela you are so sweet, thank you. I never noticed that about the postcode; my, my.
    It's wonderful to know that all the work that went into setting up this on line presence did not go to waste. I came upon your discussion accidenly.
    There will be more additions once Clive Anoraque in the cumputing department masters Front Page. Look out for the report from the committee on committes and the opening of the chapel as well as word from the Bishop's Palace
    Vera
     
  9. GME

    GME New Member

    Bishop Beaver

    My personal favorite is the

    'A European Union University-Sector Elite Institution' tag.

    GE
     
  10. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    snip: "Think about the closeness of outline between the letter S and the numeral 5 ;-)"

    Aha! How could I have missed that?
     

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