If you've many years of relevant work experience then it doesn't matter where you received your advanced degree. U of Ph is an accredited school so the degrees are legit. Would I insist on being addressed as Dr if I had a PhD? Only if the situation warrants but most of the time, of course not.

True story and I hope she doesn't visit Pelican so I won't get into trouble. She just received her PhD in Education from a local private school. Good school but no Stanford. She had her bridal shower at a local hotel ballroom. She had a marquee made up that gave directions to the location of her shower. The sign was posted at the hotel lobby and it said, "This way to Dr ___'s bridal shower". Tacky but consistent with her personality.

Dr Ai Papi..., no doubt...

I very much appreciate the respect you have shown me by calling me "Dottore" all this time. I don't take that for granted. :)

Harvard is accredited.
U.S. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs

I thought ALL universities were out to make a profit.


Since U of P is accredited by the same accreditation agency as Arkansas State University and Oklahoma State University (and others) are all of those schools also sham diploma mills? Since U of P is one of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges, should we discount any educational credentials that a veteran produces for civilian employment?

I'm not saying you're wrong, or that U of P represents a pinnacle of education.
I'm just saying they have the same credentials as many other schools. How do we discern an un-credible degree from an incredible degree when both are approved by the same peer review processes?

It was an unusual enough Tag that I looked it up on Wiki a year or so ago. The description makes me smile.:cool:

"Il Dottore or the Doctor (usually called Dottore Balanzone, Dottore Baloardo, or Dottore Graziano) is a commedia dell'arte stock character, one of the vecchi or old men whose function in a scenario is to be an obstacle to the young lovers. Pantalone and Il Dottore are the alter ego of each other, Pantalone being the decadent wealthy merchant, and Il Dottore being the decadent erudite.[1]

The Doctor is a local angry disruptive busybody who doesn't listen to anyone else from any of the fields that he claims to know about, which is many (medicine, law, etc.). He is traditionally portrayed as having been educated either in Bologna or Padua, which since the Renaissance had two of the most prestigious universities of Italy and Europe. He is often extremely rich, generally with "old" money, though the needs of the scenario might have things otherwise. He is extremely pompous, and loves the sound of his own voice, spouting ersatz Latin and Greek. His interaction in the play is usually mostly with Pantalone, either as a friend, mentor or competitor.

He is typically depicted as an elderly man who only knows nonsense. He makes many cruel jokes about the opposite sex and believes that he knows everything about everything. He is an obese man that enjoys the bottle and eating to excess. His mask is unique in that it is the only mask in commedia dell'arte to cover only the forehead and nose. It is sometimes black, or else flesh-toned with a red nose."

I call him Dot.

Only time I ever do the call me doctor thing is when some functionary pisses me off. Then "You may call me doctor or sir, may I please speak to your supervisor," is how that usually goes.

I would only want to be called Doctor if my name were Vinnie Boombatz.

We'll put it this way, I have the same views on this as my dad.. and it took the community we moved to 20 years ago WELL over a decade before they realized he was a doctor(of chemical engineering)


We have several Professors on campus who INSIST on being called Dr. so and so. They're all considered jack...es for it.

You have unmasked me good sir!

If I had a FAKE PhD I would insist on being called Dr. at parties and especially the office.

Glad someone said that.

I was considering going for a PhD. Not because it would help with my career, but just so people would call me Dr. But I actually like being called master better. :D

Anyone else see the irony in someone spending god-knows-how-much dollars and time in pursuit of a doctorate in BUSINESS?

Kind of funny actually. I can't imagine the benefits outweigh the costs of obtaining.

The catch is that an Masters degree affords you the title of 'Mr." at best I believe.

Mister bater? :confused:

OK, I'll call you "masterbetter."

For the cost of a Masters degree, buy a boat.
Then you can proclaim yourself a Master Baiter - no degree required.

We all call each other "Dr." at the office. Even the guys without extra degrees. It's something of an inside joke as we used to interact with a few jerks who insisted in being addressed as "Dr." Some of us actually do have PhDs to back it up but nobody gives a crap.

There was one English teacher in my high school who insisted in being addressed as "Dr." Seriously. A high school English teacher. Talk about delusions of grandeur. He didn't even teach honors/AP English...just the run-of-the-mill, nearly remedial stuff.

The most uncommon "doctor" I have ever known had a PhD in English Lit. She was a teacher in rural Alabama. And, she had the thickest outer county Southern drawl and country-isms I have ever heard. She was the first I heard to use the word stob meaning "short stick." And the only one, there were more. I was there for a year restoring Victorian houses.

We called her "Betty."

She was Dr. Wal**** at school board meetings.

i personally like "HERR DIREK-TOR"(director) kind of has a ZING to it, dont it?


i wanna be called "HERR DIREK-TOR ODDJOB UNO" from now on.