Scudrunners

The recent scandal of university bribes was very low level - very
much "pay for play".

There is a much higher tier, where old boys that went to school
30 years ago, get together and a check is written in the amount
of millions of dollars for a new wing of a building, and by the way,
the chip off the old block didn't do very well on the SATs but perhaps
the admissions committee could take into account other considerations ...

All spoken between the old boys over brandys at the club. Nothing
written down. Nothing incriminating. And another generation of idiots
gets into the very best schools on a completely non-merit basis.

And you guys wonder why I'm a cynic about university degrees.

A comity of people with terrific degrees probably decided on the Wx abbreviation "BR". It's showing up today along with -SN, since it's nonsense and I forgot BR, out of curiosity I decided to look it up. Mist?

Huh, I probably would not have guessed that one.

BR is short for.” Brume.” “Mist” in English

Wx is all ICAO, French first, then into English ( in Canada)
This has little effect except for the written portions.

And the ICAO symbol for mist is BR...

Now you know...and will forever remember what BR stands for

Though Brume River does just not cut it. Or play Brume for me...

You could have told me that when we were drinking scotch and Mountain Dew.

We will see if it sticks. I had to look it up a second time to get it right before complaining.

Gorillas in the Brume.

I've always regretted that circumstances dictated that I didn't get to go to university.

I've decided that when I stop flying, I'm going to get a degree. Probably in physics.

It would be great being the oldest guy in class. And not broke...

This would be very confusing to me. If I got a PhD in aviation would I be called doctor, captain, doctor captain, captain doctor or just "hey you" -- haha

Aviation PhD

Does anyone know a doctor of aviation.

What a joke. A PhD is just a union card that you need, to get hired as a Professor
at a University.

If you're not going to be a Professor at a University, it's a giant fucking waste of your time.

But, I guess some people's time isn't worth anything. Those are the people that get
useless PhD's.

I remember as an undergrad, there would be these creepy losers that hung around the
University. Lifers, we called them. They lived cheap like a student, and did cheap labor
for the faculty. Some of them slowly collected graduate degrees, but most didn't.

I have no idea why on earth, anyone would consider a loser lifer some kind of winner.

What degrees did Bill Gates acquire, before his success?