Trump Rhetoric...

Right. Because a thing's value is what others will pay you for it.

Financial statistics might be predictive, but they certainly don't tell the entire story when it comes to things named Trump.

 

You know, all these years I had a mistaken view of Jesus. I mean, if he really WAS created in the image of a future Donald Trump.

 

Jesus was NOT orange and bloated. Nor did He have a surgical-grade comb-over. And He was really good with people who had physical challenges. Let's keep it real.

 

And HE doesn't tell the entire story --- ever.

 

“Trump getting into business with God can only mean one thing: God is gonna end up bankrupt and serving a three-month prison sentence for lying under oath.” -- Jordan Klepper

 

God will also be disbarred, too, and never allowed again to be a commentator on national news shows.

 

G-d being disbarred makes me think of Kurt Godel. Someone once asked him why he had never taken a doctorate. He said, "Who would examine me?"

 

Well crud! Apocryphal apparently. Godel DID earn his doctorate in Austria in 1930.

 

I think the story refers, not to Gödel, but to George Lyman Kittredge, an English professor at Harvard.

Waikiki -- I mean Wiki:
"There is a widely circulated story that when asked why he did not have one (a PhD), Kittredge was supposed to have replied,[17] "But who would examine me?" However, according to Clifton Fadiman, "Kittredge always maintained that the question was never asked, and if it had been he would never have dreamed of answering in such a manner."

Whole thing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lyman_Kittredge#:~

Gödel's page is a good read, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gödel

 

"Who would examine me?" Sounds like a phrase, not from the mathematical genius Kurt Gödel, or the erudite Harvard professor, George Lyman Kittredge, but VERY possibly from the "very stable" (and ultra-conceited) "genius," Donald Trump.

I call Trump "conceited" rather than "vain" because:
Vain people overestimate their own good qualities.
Conceited people overestimate good qualities they don't even have.

 

Thanks for locating the reference!

 

You're welcome. I think this (untrue) story may have gone the rounds before any connection with Kittredge, although I can't find it.

It's like "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" Nobody knows who said it (or to whom) first. Likely, someone who wasn't rich.
This is basically "If you're so smart, why ain't you got a Doctorate?" Probably said (if at all) first by someone without a PhD.

 

...or by Bernadette Rostenkowsky-Wollowitz, PhD, on The Big Bang Theory.

 

Definitely sounds like Bernadette. Not first, though. The show was only a few years ago. The late Prof. Kittredge, about whom the story was (mistakenly) told, joined Harvard faculty in 1888 and retired in 1936. I think that was a good few years before Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz was born. BTW - I thought Wolowitz was with one L.

It is - with both Howard and Bernadette. I looked it up. Rostenkowski is also with an "i".

Good comment anyway!

 

Rostenkowski - shows Bernadette's Polish roots. Wolowitz - shows Howard's Ashkenazi Jewish roots. "Witz" is a Germanized version of a Slavic suffix meaning "son of." Nothing interests me more than the study of names. They tell ALL. World-wide.

I got the bug from my first Latin teacher, when I was 12. A very erudite man, who knew 14 languages. He was also my first French teacher - and the best.

 

...and Howard Wolowitz could easily have remedied his lack of a PhD. All he had to do was make an inquiry or two among certain well-known (to us at DI) schools in Mexico, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.... they could have fixed him up with one.

And now -- back to your normal programming.

 

As in this guy's (Slavic) patronymic: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

 

The actual quote:

Bernadette: Why are you doing that? You're being mean to him (Sheldon).
Howard: He's mean to me all the time. You've heard him tease me about not having a doctorate.
Bernadette: If you don't want to get teased about that, get a doctorate. I have one, they're great.

 

@Rich Douglas
Howard: He's mean to me all the time. (Sheldon) You've heard him tease me about not having a doctorate.
Bernadette: If you don't want to get teased about that, get a doctorate. I have one, they're great.
Rich: They certainly are! I hold two and lately, I've been thinking...

 

I'm bleeding, bro! And LMAO.

And yes, heading towards another. Help me!