Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Hurrah for degrees.info!

You may recall my last post in which I expressed some dismay at an advertisement for an online university website offering me a quick degree if I had an interest in "Public Speach". This didn't even take into account the whole idea of getting a degree in "Speach" on the Internet where people don't typically hear you speak. And I didn't even mention the fact that "speech" is a noun and they really meant "public speaking" (or perhaps "speeking").

Well, I'm proud to say that the good folks at degrees.info are continuing to pursue their fine tradition of academic excellence, despite the fact that they're still trying to sell me something using Christmas trees in April.

Popup ads irk me. The fact that the Google ad blocker is such a piece of crap that it blocks almost no ads at all irks me.

However occasionally an ad does make my life easier and brings me some joy. Witness the latest ad that I got that Google failed to block:



Again, you probably can't see what I immediately saw. Suffice to say the "Public Speach" is now not the only thing for which I could pursue a degree via this august institution.

I thought for a bit about a rant regarding this, but I did that before. Upon further consideration, I realized that a picture really is worth the thousand words I could have written.

12 comments:

lacochran said...

Great writte up!

Mike said...

Isn't Writting some kind of legal work?

Gilahi said...

la - Tthanks!

Mike - I'll need a write-up citting examples.

Ash said...

I'm weepping.

restaurant refugee said...

This saddens me on so many levels.

Gilahi said...

Em - Unfortunatly, I'm afraid this is what you can espect from colege graduates these days. Please don't loose any slepp over it.

(And yes, all of those were intentional.)

Gilahi said...

RR - I find it to be sort of a Charlie Chaplin-like experience. I feel really sorry for them, and yet I can't help but laugh.

fiona said...

speachless...

Melissa B. said...

Many of my students will probably want to get in touch with this fine academic institution. I have seen the words "writting" and "speach" in many student essays. But I digress. And PS: Please pop over to participate in Sx3 today. We're in serious Donald Trump Mode!

Gilahi said...

Fiona - Amazzing, isn't it?

rachaelgking said...

Onestlie, I think you're being a litle critikal.

Gilahi said...

Lilu - It wouldn't hurt a colege website to do a litle edittting.

 
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