A while ago I had a short post on the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate and what a stupid name that is for a phone.
Welp, sometimes, if you wait, they'll top themselves: meet the Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate Lightning.
Showing posts with label oddities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oddities. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Underwater Basket Weaving
If you haven't heard of the term, it's used to describe any useless university course or major. Apparently its usage dates back to the 1950s.
In 1968, presumably referring to college students coming up with ways to escape the draft, a senator said: "I am just as interested as you and the chairman or anyone else in seeing that we don't get into the situation that we were in after World War II where we had universities setting up courses in underwater basket-weaving."
Reed College, in Oregon, which is awesome because of the prevalence of dogs on its campus, offers a course on underwater basket weaving, every year since 1980. The University of Arizona offered a snorkelling basket weaving class in 1998, too.
However, willow basket weaving does involve putting reeds underwater to soak for ten hours.
In 1968, presumably referring to college students coming up with ways to escape the draft, a senator said: "I am just as interested as you and the chairman or anyone else in seeing that we don't get into the situation that we were in after World War II where we had universities setting up courses in underwater basket-weaving."
Reed College, in Oregon, which is awesome because of the prevalence of dogs on its campus, offers a course on underwater basket weaving, every year since 1980. The University of Arizona offered a snorkelling basket weaving class in 1998, too.
However, willow basket weaving does involve putting reeds underwater to soak for ten hours.
The Galaxy S Captivate
Samsung just launched a new Android phone through AT&T, called the "Galaxy S Captivate." Have you ever heard of a crazier phone name?
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