Talk:Underwater basket weaving

message: Though this may not be verifiable, in some circles the class "underwater basket weaving" is thought to be a fictional idea. Some kids hear the phrase and think that it means "weaving baskets underwater" as though the class would need to be taught at the pool. 19:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition 

message: Is it just me, or has this recently be rewritten and almost vandalized with what seems to be an extreme slant, and original and probably unverifiable research? I highly recommend looking up some of the things that were edited recently, and rewriting the article with removal of the quasi-vandalism in mind. 
Also, I have seen no other mention of it being a sport anywhere, so this may or may not be someone's vandalism. 
Ruduen 20:18, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extreme Slant 

message: The Elizabeth Cain the article links to was born in 1962, several decades after the claimed invention of underwater basketweaving.   Assuming the article is factual, is there another person that it should be redirected to, or should the link just be removed? Night1stalker 05:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   Liz Cain 

message: No courses in basket weaving were found via these Google searches:
*Saint Joseph's College in Indiana:
::http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.saintjoe.edu+basket+weaving
*Simon Fraser University in Canada:
::http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.sfu.ca+basket+weaving
-Ac44ck (talk) 17:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not current class offerings 

message: I rewrote this, the page was a mess, and poorly researched. There is apparently a reference from 1954, but can't confirm: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0705d&L=ads-l&P=11797 Fences and windows (talk) 10:52, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrote

message: What does the picture of the Cherokee man soaking weaving material in water have to with this term? Wikipedia shows the world teh stoopid again. Are you kidding me?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.82.225.245 (talk) 11:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What?

message: It seems that plain old basket weaving slightly preceded underwater basket weaving as the butt of the joke. the first time I can find basket weaving being referred to pejoratively is in Life magazine in September 1951  as an easy course for footballers at American colleges. It was also mentioned pejoratively in the same context in two news articles in 1954: Fences&Windows 00:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Basket weaving

message: There's a strange, unsourced reference to Baleen in this section, which I'm removing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.123.77 (talk) 18:30, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible origin of the phrase

message: What exactly is this supposed to mean. The link is just to the American football article, which doesn't explain anything. Tad Lincoln (talk) 22:12, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  College Pro Football 

message: *Underwater basket weaving is an idiom referring in a negative way to supposedly easy and/or worthless college or university courses, and used generally to refer to a perceived decline in educational standards
**This statement is sourced to Tuckett 2003 which does not support the statement with a source about the subject.  It merely critiques adult education in the UK and mentions the phrase in passing. Viriditas (talk) 00:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That's nice -- sources are often only strictly required in the case of controversial or legitimately disputed material, and I don't see any legitimate dispute here.  Look how the phrase is used in almost any campus newspaper, and I'm sure you'll find plenty of evidence for this or similar meanings.  Here's a starter Google search:  -- AnonMoos (talk) 04:55, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Current problems

message: "However, the joke is seen by some as being disrespectful of indigenous cultures, and the joke designer issued an apology which was posted on the Coursera class page for 'Aboriginal Worldviews and Education.'"
This statement is unsourced, and it really needs to be sourced, because otherwise anyone can simply make up that so-and-so party was offended. Was there REALLY widespread offense here? If not, this statement should be removed. If so, then woe betide us! Tpkatsa (talk) 18:39, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced comment

message: Was this apology meant as another joke, poking fun at political correctness?
  ...we were not intending to be disrespectful to indigenous cultures, and we sincerely apologize to anyone we offended by the content of our video."[30] Zezen (talk) 10:31, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  PC joke? 

message: is it just me or isn't it kinda missing the point to put in an image of somebody basket-weaving underwater in an article about underwater basket weaving being used as a metaphor? it reeks of bored wikipedia addicts trying to score invisible internet points by adding whatever they can.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7081:7042:700:C593:DB50:34C3:9570 (talk) 02:08, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  lol