Underwater Basket Weaving

I've always wondered about the origin of "underwater basket weaving" as the go-to absurd example of a pointless cake class...

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Somebody said it because it's the most useless thing they could think of, their friend lol'd, they both said it on the internet, it caught on.

=D

My college has an underwater basket weaving class.
On a side note the reason it exists if cause doing basket weaving underwater allows for a better basket.
I don't remember exactly why.

Underwater Basket Weaving? wtp.. what will they come up with next? Upside-down one-handedly playing Super Smash Brothers Melee?

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20 years ago
The UCSD Guardian: January 17th 1984.
Weaving Their Way to an A. Wednesday, January 25 marks the first session of a new course offered by the recreation department entitled ‘Underwater Basketweaving.’ The course will be taught at the Canyon View Pool Center by Stephanie Litvak,… The first day of class, students will weave in the pool, but all weaving thereafter will be done in the Jacuzzi.

http://www.alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol1.../index.htm

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.

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So, (to clarify I'm not insane) underwater basket weaving is just a fake joke that was first used as a "major" do dodge the draft.

OR

They are now actually having this???????????????????????????????????! :f6:

Originally it was something used by draft-dodgers, but colleges were basicially like "lol thats funny lets offer it as an actual class"

Thanks a lot. I should have checked wikipedia first myself. Means a lot to me.

The phrase Under Water Basket Weaving has been around for ages.

It is a real class. And it is pointless. That's why people use it as an example of a pointless class.