Good grief, I though "Trump University" was a Doonesbury fiction until

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<p>I googled it.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.trumpuniversity.com%5B/url%5D”>http://www.trumpuniversity.com</a></p>

<p>“The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.”</p>

<p>Sounds a bit like the motto of Faber University - Knowledge is good</p>

<p>Safety school, anyone? <grin></grin></p>

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<p>I see the start of a bitter sports rivalry between Trump U and Phoenix U, battling it out in the Online Campus Bowl. And in a truly surreal development, isn’t real-life Walden University one of the oldest online programs? And the Doonesbury gang went to . . . Walden College.</p>

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<p>Walden College is a thinly disguised Yale. (Yale is Gary Trudeau’s alma mater.) For example, the Walden former football star B.D. is a thinly disguised Brian Dowling - Yale’s star quarterback from the late 1960s.</p>

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<p>Is Trump actually giving a degree in something or are these more like continuing Ed courses? </p>

<p>will attending Trump U give you an edge in becoming the next apprentice?</p>

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<p>Coureur: BD is only thinly disguised now. He was completely apparent when the strip was started (1963, I believe, not late 60s).</p>

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<p>Nope. You are off by about 5 years. Brian Dowling was captain of the Yale football team in 1968. Doonesbury made its debut in the Yale school newspaper that same year. It first appeared in regular newspapers in 1970.</p>

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<p>Do you think Trump U will offer advanced degrees? I live in a college town and have a bit of a complex about the lack of letters after my name.</p>

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<p>1more: my suggestion is, rather than spend time at Trump U, you concoct a good name foir whatever it is that you do. Guy I used to know who was from Croatia took a degree in kinesiology, then had business cards printed with his name and the work “Balkanokinesiologist”. When I asked him what the heck a Balkanokinesiologist was, he allowed as, being as he was from the Balkans, the description was a fair one.</p>

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<p>Trump University is planning its first hostile takeover. Here’s the victim:</p>

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<p>1moremom - Apparently the credential after the name does not require attending Trump U, as dadofsam has said. When we remodeled a couple of years ago, we bought our wood flooring from a great guy. His business card listed his title as “Certified Floorologist.” Gotta love it.</p>