Stripper With A PhD?

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• motorhead

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  11 years ago

  Never met a PhD stripper. An old semi-favorite claimed she had a Master of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan. Could have been typical stripper shit, but I believed her. She wasn't your typical dancer.
• motorhead

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  11 years ago

  Doubt if there are many tenured professorship's in Prussian History available, so maybe not surprising he sought other work. What's a drilling job paying? Over a $100k per year?
• farmerart

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  11 years ago

  @motorhead, This guy's monthly pay rate works out to a little over $150K/year. He had previously been working at an adjunct professorial position for less than $55K with even less job security than he has with my drilling contractor.
• sinclair

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  11 years ago

  I have never met a stripper with a PhD. We had a guy with a PhD start working at my employer. He was making 32k to start and was fired within six months. He was very book smart but lacked common sense and did not know how to effectively interact with coworkers or clients. Apparently when you become overeducated, you become earmarked for either R&D with a company or teach/research for a university.
• jester214

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  11 years ago

  There's an overabundance of History PhD's in general. You look through the ranks of university administration I guarantee you'll find several. I've also met a few that mentioned Masters or work on a Masters but never a PhD. One claimed she got her MBA right as the economy bottomed out and couldn't find anything to cover her standard of living, I was skeptical.
• mmdv26

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  11 years ago

  I ask to see proof if stripper claims to have GED.
• crazyjoe

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  11 years ago

  I didn't think a stripper would ever need a Post hole Digger
• jackslash

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  11 years ago

  My favorite dancer is Jenna, BS, MS, PHD BS = Bull Shit MS = More of the Same PHD= Piled Higher and Deeper
• DandyDan

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  11 years ago

  I have never met one who seemed capable of having a PhD, much less met one. I've met some who had a bachelors degree, but none of them seemed like the kind to get a doctorate, mostly because lazy people don't go for PhD's. I would think the general atmosphere of the university environment would stop any stripper pursuing a PhD from stripping anymore. Of course, nowadays, you can get it all online, but still, it seems like too much of a life commitment away from stripping for any serious stripper to make.
• Club_Goer_Seattle

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  11 years ago

  The most common degree sought by strippers I've known was an MRS degree.
• lopaw

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  11 years ago

  Yes....she was getting her degree while she danced, and now she is doing her residency as a Postdoctoral Psychologist. I used to joke with her that she had plenty of customers in the club that she could have written several thesis about. I wonder if she actually did that.
• crazyjoe

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  11 years ago

  I have a PhD hanging in my garage
• deejaymedstu

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  11 years ago

  I have a PHD... if you know what I mean.
• shadowcat

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  11 years ago

  I knew one that had tenure at USC(Carolina)teaching theatre & public speaking. Last I heard was that she was teaching at Clemson. I have a current favorite working for Georgia Power as an engineer.
• gawker

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  11 years ago

  Several months ago I referenced a doctoral dissertation from the University of Rhode Island written by a woman who worked as a stripper while researching strippers and domestic violence. She neglected to mention whether she provided extras while researching. I've done a few dances with an Asian dancer who claims to have an MS in abnormal psych. I asked her if she had any idea how many of the dancers had "father issues"? She said she assumed 100%.
• gawker

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  11 years ago

  More years ago than I want to admit I worked in a vocational high school where there was a plumbing teacher who was a licensed master plumber and who had a BA from Brown University in English Literature. He taught me several things: a plumber can appreciate a Shakesperean sonnet as well as a Philosopher can; and there's a major difference between being smart and being well educated. Very few are both.
• xedin5436

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  11 years ago

  Working at a club wouldn't necessarily keep a girl from earning a PhD, especially just working 2 or 3 shifts a week. It wouldn't leave much free time, but if you need to make decent money in a short period of time, dancing is a decent option. I've only met one dancer who claimed to be in an actual real college, and that claim stood up to some scrutiny. I've met far more who were in cosmetology school.
• Electronman

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  11 years ago

  I met a dancer who claimed to be working her way through med school. i offered her some extra credit in male anatomy. She laughed and earned the extra credit and some tuition money.
• Dougster

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  11 years ago

  Met one with an MBA, one with a law degree, one working on a master's in history, and a waitress working on a master's in physics. All those I beleived. Met several stripoers who claimed to be in med school but when I asked some questions to see if it was true, there was just no way! Don't know why that should that be such a popular lie.
• crazyjoe

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  11 years ago

  The ex mayor the small town of Georgetown Colorado used to dance in Denver even after she was done being mayor...if they would have let her dance while being mayor she would have...imagine being your complaints about your town to the strip club and gatting a lap dance from the mayor at the same time! Yeahooooo
• crazyjoe

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  11 years ago

  Commerieial break now... one dancer told me the ex mayor had to leave early because she had an ankle monitor and was on house arrest and had to be back home before curfew...lol Colorado is the best
• motorhead

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  11 years ago

  "...and a waitress working on a master's in physics" Yeah, they're the best. Why waste the evening with a waitresse discussing just how worthless their babydaddy is when you can have a most delightful ocnversation about the Dirac equation, the Higgs Boson, Feynman diagrams, and M-theory.
• Tiredtraveler

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  11 years ago

  Met a dancer at LS in Romulus MI that said she was working on her masters in psychology. She had worked at clubs while an undergrad and found she had an exhibitionist streak. Stripping turns her on, likes strangers and the money was her spend on anything money. She was mid twenties, very intelligent, and drove an hour to work there two evenings / week (she says she has a regular job). I think the stripping turns her on part was true because we went down for a dance after her set on stage and she was dripping. I don't care whether the rest was true as she was hot, could carry on a conversation and was horny (or was a very good actress)
• glen_livet

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  11 years ago

  I also met a dancer who claimed she was studying for a Masters in Psychology. Seems to be popular among strippers. I'm sure the job gives them some interesting research ideas, and I would imagine the psych classes help them with the "sales" aspect of their jobs.
• duomaxwell

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  11 years ago

  There's a woman that dances/escorts at a club around here with a PhD, she told me that she makes more doing what she's doing now than she would anywhere else. She doesn't even really dance, her customers schedule time with her and she spends her entire shift in VIP and leaves with 3k+ nightly. It's wild.
• ilbbaicnl

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  11 years ago

  As it was explained to the scarecrow, you can still have a diploma even if you have a head full of straw.
• ilbbaicnl

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  11 years ago

  I saw a stripper's bachelor's degree framed on her wall. It said "magna cum laude". Knew another stripper who passed the test to become a Certified Network Engineer.
• emmett

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  11 years ago

  crazyjoe: You better cut him down before he starts to smell bad.
• mjx01

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  11 years ago

  I've known two dancers with completed masters degrees. As for the various comments regarding PhD's in general... it depends on what field the PhD is in. Engineering, biotech = $$$$$$$$$. History, art, etc. = 0. Same is true at BS and MS levels as well. It's a crime what universities charge these days. However, in some fields (engineering, applied sciences, and such) there are high paying careers where you'll earn back the investment in your degree. There are many other degrees (history, art, english, ...) where you will be paying back you student loans for the rest of your life. sinclair's comment about "book smart" can be true, no argument there. However, IMO, I think this is also something that varies with the background of the PhD.
• jester214

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  11 years ago

  The thing there mjx is for the sciences/engineering/computers you really don't need a PhD. A masters in those degrees is enough that you don't need to spend more time unless you really want to teach/research. That's part of why you see so many History PhD's. History and research go hand in hand.
• mjx01

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  11 years ago

  1st, I never said a PhD was 'needed' for sciences/engineering/computers. The disparity in employment prospects is true at all degree levels. 2nd... According to the National Science foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) (academic year 2010), there were: 7552 PhD's awarded in engineering disciplines 4201 PhD's awarded in physics science disciplines 11148 PhD's in life sciences 963 PhD's in history Put another way, according to NSF-SED, over 54% of all PhD's in academic year 2010 were in sciences/engineering/computers fields, where 2% PhD's were in history. Yeh, there's only 27 STEM PhDs for 1 history PhD. [view link]
• motorhead

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  11 years ago

  Of those 7500 engineering PhD's, how many went to Americans. I bet very few. Outside of university, the only engineers with doctorates are either from India or China.
• farmerart

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  11 years ago

  I am surprised at how this thread took off. Further to the rig pig PhD. His career hit a major barrier. The poor guy is severely allergic to walnuts. So, this tour will be the guy's first, and last, on a big rig. Perhaps he can drop down to service rigs with my drilling contractor.
• ilbbaicnl

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  11 years ago

  If I had a PhD, would I understand why not eating walnuts stops you from working on a drilling rig?
• farmerart

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  11 years ago

  @ilbbaicnl, Sorry about that. Eating walnuts has nothing to do with drilling rigs. It is the walnut shells we use frequently. Occasionally when drilling a hole the drill bit hits schist or compacted sand or something else slippery or dense that prevents the drill bit from getting hold of the material. When that happens we throw walnut shells down the hole. The shells provide just enough grit for the drill bit to get going again. Sounds weird but I swear that it is the truth. Some old-timer discovered this decades ago. We have been going through hundreds of kilos of shells the last three months. One of the jobs of the lowest ranking rig pig is humping the big bags of walnut shells to the hopper and dumping them in when needed. This guy's severe allergy prevented him from doing that job. When I stop to think, I realize that this sounds silly - walnut shells facilitating drilling. It really is true. In the industry we just call for walnuts, not walnut shells.
• motorhead

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  11 years ago

  Filters made with walnut shells are used to clean-up oil contaminated water in the oil fields
• ilbbaicnl

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  11 years ago

  I see the class-action lawsuit coming from people with a walnut allergy who drink well water.
• ilbbaicnl

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  11 years ago

  Art, how much do you pay the people you hire to eat the walnuts? Maybe I could get a Canadian work permit.
• Ermita_Nights

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  11 years ago

  All hell breaks out when the schist hits the drill.
• Clackport

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  11 years ago

  @xedin5436- you're right about the cosmetology thing. Most strippers who tell me they're in school say they're in cosmetology school. I work with a Pharmacist who stripped in order to pay for pharmacy school. She's fat and not good looking now, but I hear she's wasn't too bad looking in her younger days.
• Lionshare

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  11 years ago

  My Favorite has a masters in Nursing. I was a combat medic so I knew enough about her job and the terminology to test her knowledge. She is very educated in the matter. Says she works as a nurse in the summer offseason. Also since shes a nurse she knows the healthy benefits of giving blowjobs, and does them eagerly.
• steve3003

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  11 years ago

  Once in Tel Aviv, when a flood of Russian Jews were emigrating. She said she had a PhD in math from Moscow State. Just one night, so never verified. A number of Master's degree holders in the States (a few verified) but never a PhD.
• she_is_covfefe

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  11 years ago

  I once worked with a dancer who was doing her residency...at a local Walgreens! So I did meet one who already had a doctorate. And of course, all them lawyers that stripped during law school coming back to the club as dancers with their Juris Doctor degrees.
• txtittyfan

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  11 years ago

  I once knew one with an StD.
• Dougster

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  11 years ago

  @tittyfan: Really? Did RickyBoyDugan have BBFS with her and confide in you afterward?
• D0ugster

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  11 years ago

  ^^^ Another of my trademark non sequitur attacks.
• ilbbaicnl

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  11 years ago

  Athena on StripperWeb has a undergrad Math degree (as I do). I tried to call bullshit on her by asking her a fairly hard question, but she aced it.