AA, BA, …?

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I was surfing around when I came across this ad:

I know what the middle one stands for, but I wonder what the Angry Astronomer would say? And does either of us have an MBA?

I have a (cough cough) BS in astronomy, and an MA and PhD as well. So no business degree, or sense for that matter. My head’s always in the clouds. Or higher, if possible.

September 25th, 2006 3:42 PM by Phil Plait in About this blog, Cool stuff, Humor | 13 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

13 Responses to “AA, BA, …?”

  1. 1.   Evolving Squid Says:

    I think they mean that if you have an MBA, but no marketable skills, you can reasonably be expecting to serve burgers.

  2. 2.   Troy Says:

    The degree system at the Universität Hamburg?

  3. 3.   John B. Sandlin Says:

    MBA = Mondo Bad Astronomer?

    jbs

  4. 4.   Trebuchet Says:

    I’d have to disagree with Evolving Squid. I’ve never met an MBA with any marketable skills but since their companies are all run by other MBA’s, they get the big bucks anyhow. I’m an engineer, in case you hadn’t guessed.

    BS = (see Penn & Teller)
    MS = More of the Same
    PhD = Piled higher and Deeper

  5. 5.   bassmanpete Says:

    You’d be safer claiming to have a BSc, it makes it much less open to misinterpretation :)

  6. 6.   Aerik Says:

    You think that’s something? Check out this link from your last article. Backyard Astronomy

    Backyard Astronomy = BA, too! Tee hee.

  7. 7.   Dave Says:

    Phil, may I recomend this adblocker: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/

    It should make your surfing experience much more enjoyable.

  8. 8.   SgtBill Says:

    AA = Associate of Arts (two year degree)….
    AA could also =

    A**Hole Astronomer – my first Astronomy professor at a Jr. College had one of these…

  9. 9.   J Pola Says:

    BA?
    You mean Bigelow Aerospace?
    Big deal they struck last week with Lockheed…

  10. 10.   Aerik Says:

    Are you high or something, Dave? We all thought the ad was funny!! Nobody is actually complaining about the ads! Think before you click “submit,” man.

  11. 11.   Joshua Says:

    Why is it Dave gets to post his message but I get blocked for spam? =/

  12. 12.   Joshua Says:

    Oh. I guess it’s because I was filling in the website field. Good to know! (Especially since host of that site replaced the blog with an NSFW image while nobody was looking. =X)

  13. 13.   Dave Says:

    Aerik posted. “Are you high or something, Dave? We all thought the ad was funny!! Nobody is actually complaining about the ads! Think before you click “submit,” man.”

    Linking to the adblocker was sort of tongue-in-cheek, I don’t know where you get the impression I thought people were complaining, I didn’t. Personally I find ads annoying and thought this was a particularly good addon to have on your browser. I was trying to be helpful, if people want see it as spam, good for them, you can live with adds!

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