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Old 04-19-2002, 12:42 PM   #1
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Post I think I've dicovered Hovind and Ham's secret.

Got this in my email today....
hmmm, PhD. sure would look good on my resume..

the emphasis is mine.
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Old 04-19-2002, 12:47 PM   #2
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Yeah, well it is pretty much common knowledge that Kent Hovind's PhD came from a diploma mill here in Colorado Springs that is currently being run out of private residence.
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Old 04-19-2002, 01:02 PM   #3
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I've gotten that email before. Hilarious stuff.
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Old 04-19-2002, 01:05 PM   #4
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<strong>CALL NOW to receive your diploma
within days!!!
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Well shit! And to think that I spent four long years earning mine!
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I don't undestand why people don't just fake them themselves rather than pay the mills. They aren't worth any less!
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<strong>Well shit! And to think that I spent four long years earning mine!</strong>
Nya, Nya, sucker!
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Old 04-20-2002, 11:26 AM   #7
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<strong>I don't undestand why people don't just fake them themselves rather than pay the mills. They aren't worth any less!</strong>
Sure, but faking it yourself, lacks the prestige that these unaccredited institutions claim to have.
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<strong>prestigious non-accredited
universities</strong>
Isn't that an oxymoron?


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Have you ever seen a doctorate from a French uni?

My partner's was printed on a dot matrix printer and is marked as non-replacable if lost.

A dot-matrix printer!

And that's from a fully accredited university!
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Old 04-20-2002, 02:22 PM   #10
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A friend of mine got his PhD from Harvard in a crimson cardboard mailing tube. We sat down over coffee, he opened it, and it was entirely in Latin. He was pissed off, until he figured out that it said "We have your urine specimen, and you pass."
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