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I agree with Schmo, Biden is definitely a fool professor.Some Schmo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:12 pmIt seems to me that if Biden was ever a professor, he was a full professor. He hasn't had any limbs amputated, has he? He's never gone hungry, has he?
Ha! Thank you, uncle Rico. Thank you for that chuckle. I love COMMON SENSE humor! President Biden is indeed a foolish man for saying he was a “professor.” He wasn’t really a professor. You know who was REAL?!? Trump was and IS real. He at least had a REAL university! Maybe SLEEPY JOE could get a REAL job if Trump university is HIRING. Ha!Uncle Rico wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:26 pmI agree with Schmo, Biden is definitely a fool professor.Some Schmo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:12 pmIt seems to me that if Biden was ever a professor, he was a full professor. He hasn't had any limbs amputated, has he? He's never gone hungry, has he?
So... half professor? You won't play the whole yard, front and back?
Some Schmo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:30 amSo... half professor? You won't play the whole yard, front and back?
Of course, your backyard might be big enough to qualify for full professor status. I know a lot happens back there.
Granted the term full professor is a silly redundancy of the kind American English abounds in.Physics Guy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:10 amI grew up in a military family, so probably my thinking about academic titles takes the analogy with military ranks a bit too seriously and also carries the pedantry of military stickling over technical terms. Plus I just don't like the sound of "full professor". It makes me think the individual must be overstuffed.
I do know that law and medicine faculties often bring in people with some kind of valuable experience, give them professor titles and get them to hold seminars or something. I expect that in many cases these people really are academically expert on their subjects. Sometimes not; law faculties in particular do often drag in ex-politicians, ostensibly for their insights into the legislative process but I wonder sometimes if it's more just for their celebrity.
Biden may well be such a dubious case. As a non-American I barely even knew his name until he became President. It still seems to me, though, that if a genuine university gave him the title of Professor then he is technically correct to call himself a full Professor. If it's really kind of bogus, that's on the university in question, not on Biden.