As his nickname.
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So he believes we should impose limits for Democrats, but not for shrimp.
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When someone would ask him what Forbco Management was he’d just whisper … “Sizzler”… Like their commercials.
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TMI I’m hoping that was just a slightly sloppy choice of words. I don’t want anything encouraging me to conjure up a non-vague mental image of this feat.
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Worse - “The bill” was his nickname for his southern exposure.
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Damnit, why did I waste so much time and money going to a real university? It would’ve been so much cheaper to go to Sizz U.
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Not Ole Sizz?
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So, you’re a cardiologist.
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One is full of beef and the other pork? 
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The guy should have just gotten his degree on the DarkWeb for 6 BitCoins like i did! 
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Perhaps the US needs something like the VroniPlag initiative. Led to a few high profile minister resignations over here (Defense Minister Theodor zu Guttenberg and Education Minister Annette Schavan (<- delicious irony)).
On the other hand US politicians (esp. the republican ones) and voters have a distinctly anti-intellectualism bend (global warming, vaccines, creationism) - lying about credentials is probably more boon than harm .
As I. Asimov said:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
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The rate we are going I expect she will get to a few more of them.
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Man of the people!
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That’s actually incorrect only part of the truth. (Apologies, @LearnedCoward, I only just found out about the “gym degree”. I am insufficiently versed in the Archer canon. You were right and I was wrong. I genuflect before my statue of Mary Archer, the Virgin Mary for our times, reciting an entire rosary of Hail Archers).
Archer somehow managed to go to Oxford for a bit to do a diploma in education.He got in with qualifications which some say were faked. I am not sure if he actually has a degree because his Who’s Who entry is rather vague on the subject. He’s not worth wasting a lot of time on in this thread, but anybody who wants to see how you rise without trace in the Conservative Party needs to read his bio.
edit - I too fell for the Archer mythos; I’ve corrected my post because when I checked, even the sanitised version I had been told fell short of the whole truth.
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Dr. Ian Paisley, one of the main fomenters of sectarianism in Northern Ireland, bought his “doctorate” from a US “Bible college” for £150. I guess you can still do that and you don’t need to work in a fast food restaurant.
I once interviewed a candidate who had a first class CS degree from a university I’d never heard of, complete with certificate.
First question: “OK, what’s the length of an int in C?”
“I don’t know.”
“Let’s try another. What’s the word length of a 486?” (the current Intel CPU)
“I don’t know.”
In fact, he was unable to answer a single one of the basic questions I used to enable candidates to start off by getting everything right before I went on to the hard ones.
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Which bio?! I can’t stand Archer. Charlatans just anger me.
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I don’t want anything encouraging me to conjure up a non-vague mental image of this feat.
go on, rip off the bandaid
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I agree, but it’s still funny to compare his Who’s Who entry with Wikipedia.
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Come on, the guy went to Oxford department of education, that’s got to count for something! 
