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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:40 AM
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Cat gets MBA, school sued
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=1&u=/ap/bogus_degrees_lawsuit

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania attorney general's office Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees — including an MBA awarded to a cat.

Trinity Southern University in Texas, a cellular company and the two brothers who ran them are accused of misappropriating Internet addresses of the state Senate and more than 60 Pennsylvania businesses to sell fake degrees and prescription drugs by spam e-mail, according to the lawsuit.

Investigators paid $299 for a bachelor's degree for Colby Nolan — a deputy attorney general's 6-year-old black cat — claiming he had experience including baby-sitting and retail management.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:42 AM
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1. Hilarious!
:bounce:
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Seldona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:43 AM
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2. How many government officials have them?
Wasn't there a story not to long ago about another outfit like this that was busted, and turned out some rather prominat people had degrees from the fakers?

I should search that one down.

What a travesty.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:43 AM
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3. What kind of person names their cat...
Colby Nolan?
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signmike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:58 AM
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6. Yeah! Now, RYAN Nolan I can understand
So, this cat had experience in REtail management? - he got a new tail?
Not just 'Tail Management'
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:23 AM
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11. My mother's dog is named Dave Coso. But dogs are weird that way.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:44 AM
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4. So?
My cat Tofu has a Ph.d. And what is wrong with this? Really!
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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:44 AM
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5. I'm sure an investigation will prove that the cat earned that degree.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:05 AM
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7. Explains how shrub
got an MBA.
That is one I still can't understand. The guy is stupid and certainly has no understanding of economics.
Daddy must've bought it for him.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:20 AM
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9. no shit
but as if a business degree is that hard.
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mrstick Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:18 AM
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8. Mow Mix Is In Trouble
where are they going to find thier to execs now? prison i guess.....
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:22 AM
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10. My feline Rudy B. Cat has a QFC member card! Will they arrest him?
I don't care.

He can slip out of any handcuffs they've got.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 01:59 PM
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12. Big f'n deal. So they gave a cat an MBA.
Harvard gave a chimp an MBA, remember?

Besides, since Colby is a black cat, they'll claim he got in under affirmative action </sarcasm>
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