Underwater basket weaving
- Underwater basket weaving
Underwater basket-weaving is a process of making wicker
basket s which involves dipping reeds or stalks of plants into (or, as the name suggests, "under") water and allowing them to soak. This process will provide a very supple and flexible reed which can then be woven into a basket. The baskets then will be allowed to dry and provide a sturdy container.Fact|date=December 2007Other uses
Underwater basket-weaving is also an idiomatic example of a "really easy"
college oruniversity major or class at any level. The term also serves as ahumor ously generic answer to questions about acollege degree . Example: "What kind of degree do I need to get this job?" "You can have a degree in underwater left-handed basket weaving as long as you have your piece of paper."This generic term for an undecided major first arose during the
Vietnam War era to describe the sorts of majors that many young men, who would otherwise not have entered college, undertook to escape the draft. See also:Mickey Mouse degrees .The
University of California, San Diego 's recreation department first offered an underwater basket-weaving class in 1984 [http://www.alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol1no1/campus/index.htm] .Reed College inPortland, Oregon also offers an Underwater Basket Weaving class during Paideia, its festival of learning. [http://www.reed.edu/orientation/pdfs/2008_Obook_Small.pdf]References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Basket weaving — (also basketry, basket making, or basketmaking) is the process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers into a basket or other similar form. Basketry is made from a variety of fibrous or pliable materials anything that will bend and form a shape.… … Wikipedia
underwater basket weaving — noun An easy and useless college or high school class … Wiktionary
Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas — encompasses the visual artistic traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Americas from ancient times to the present. These include works from South America, Mesoamerica, North America including Greenland, as well as Siberian Yup ik peoples who … Wikipedia
Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… … Universalium
List of Chinese inventions — A bronze Chinese crossbow mechanism with a buttplate (the wooden components have … Wikipedia
Diploma mills in the United States — A diploma mill (also known as a degree mill) is an organization that awards academic degrees and diplomas with substandard or no academic study and without recognition by official educational accrediting bodies. The purchaser can then claim to… … Wikipedia
Art, Antiques, and Collections — ▪ 2003 Introduction In 2002 major exhibitions such as Documenta 11 reflected the diverse nature of contemporary art: artists from a variety of cultures received widespread recognition for work ranging from installation to video to painting … Universalium
bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 … Universalium
Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a … Universalium
Maldives — Republic of Maldives ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ (Dhivehi Raa jeyge Jumhooriyya) … Wikipedia
