Some of the boys she knew from college were trying to dodge
the draft by taking graduate courses, "underwater basketweaving and things like
that," as Vonda contemptuously put it.
--Rick Atkinson, The Long Gray
Underwater Basket Weaving as a Recurring Joke
The phrase was used during the Vietnam War era to describe the sort of major
that many young men who would otherwise not have entered college undertook to
escape the draft. US Senator Gordon L. Allott referred in 1968 to "the situation
that we were in after World War II where we had universities setting up courses
in underwater basketweaving, and all this sort of thing". Senator Robert Byrd
used the phrase in 1969 when questioning the use of funds to offer professional
training to Cuban refugees. The University of Portsmouth, UK, has a joke
syllabus for underwater basket weaving on the Technology faculty pages, and another joke syllabus proposal was posted by a University of Central Arkansas student magazine.
US Punk band NOFX referred to an underwater basket weaving course in their song Anarchy Camp.
Linkedin adopted "skill endorsement" in 2012, and in response to the arbitrary nature of those skill attributions, some LinkedIn participants began to list "Advanced Underwater Basket Weaving" as a skill, thereby exercising some control over their online profile.
Source: wikipedia
that many young men who would otherwise not have entered college undertook to
escape the draft. US Senator Gordon L. Allott referred in 1968 to "the situation
that we were in after World War II where we had universities setting up courses
in underwater basketweaving, and all this sort of thing". Senator Robert Byrd
used the phrase in 1969 when questioning the use of funds to offer professional
training to Cuban refugees. The University of Portsmouth, UK, has a joke
syllabus for underwater basket weaving on the Technology faculty pages, and another joke syllabus proposal was posted by a University of Central Arkansas student magazine.
US Punk band NOFX referred to an underwater basket weaving course in their song Anarchy Camp.
Linkedin adopted "skill endorsement" in 2012, and in response to the arbitrary nature of those skill attributions, some LinkedIn participants began to list "Advanced Underwater Basket Weaving" as a skill, thereby exercising some control over their online profile.
Source: wikipedia
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