Discussion:

They had to regardless of grades. He was a legacy student, like Poppy and Grandpoppy, sort of like affirmative action for the 1%.

barley… wheat was/is too hard to make beer with… and yes I know they make wheat beer these days but scientific techniques have advanced since the Egyptians thanks to Satan’s advice…

Also sprach Benny Carson:
"…they’ll put a number or something just to give it more meat,” Carson said on ABC’s “This Week.” “You know, obviously, decades later, I’m not going to remember the course number.”

So, Ben, ain’t you never heard of this thing called a transcript? I hear tell it’s got course numbers and grades and the term you done took the class and ev’rythin’ like that.

Nah. But Carson’s head is stuffed with rags. And I don’t mean the way Scott Joplin’s head was filled with rags.

I know someone like that, who spent years going to AA-type meetings because she occasionally drank too much socially in high school and college years earlier, and was finally told to leave the group once they realized she didn’t have a drinking problem and was only using them as group therapy.

Seriously, they basically had a reverse-intervention and kicked her out of the group, which was very traumatizing to her but I had a hard time not laughing when she told me; especially since I knew she had never been a serious drinker and didn’t need treatment. But being a “recovering alcoholic” was a big part of her identity at the time, since she always liked to lecture about the evils of drinking, so it must have really bothered her that she hadn’t been an alcoholic at all.

Close, but not quite. Carson’s head is being used as a grain silo.

She must have had an even tougher time coming to grips with the fact that she wasn’t actually a trans-gendered black woman, as well.

I guess chances are good he actually attended Yale.

Maybe, just maybe, Carson’s entire campaign is the payoff to a 35-year-long practical joke. Yale Record, I salute you.

I’m having an image of Putin pulling a prank on President Carson to test his mettle. He invites Carson to perform a critical brain operation on his purported niece (really an activist prisoner), saying he’ll give Crimea back to Ukraine if the operation succeeds. The operation does succeed (because there was nothing wrong with her to begin with) and Putin says, “I punked you, welcome to the real world. But you’re truly a stand-up guy — let’s say we take a picture together, and hey, here’s ten bucks.”

The possibility that this entire Yale anecdote Carson tells was actually a prank all along and he never even realized it is probably the funniest development yet in this cascade of multiple derptasms his campaign has devolved into. It’s a classic!

Except there actually is an article documenting said prank — just not with all the details Carson embellished it with (like he was the only one who fell for it all the way, or the photo at the end).

They probably stopped the “exam” out of pity about five or ten minutes in, and he seems to actually believed that line about winning the honesty prize. So because he is the hero of his every delusion, perhaps he still doesn’t realize the joke was on him.

Okay - its one thing to embellish a bit about your youth when talking to friends over a couple of beers. Not quite the same thing as a nationally known surgeon apparently not even reading his own autobiography. If he couldn’t remember all the details, and claims they were added by the ghost writer, why did he let it go to press. But then a man who has a huge “I love me wall” in his house would seem to be susceptible to such things. BTW the painting of Ben being held in the arms of Jesus is just plain creepy!

Probably. There sure isn’t enough room for Carson’s bullshit.

Yellowed Americans disagree.

What if no one ever told him that it was a hoax? What if they just assumed he’d read the Yale Record and see that he’d been had? And of course, Ben being the humor free person he seems to be, would never read something so puerile. So probably to this very day, he’s thought it was all on the up and up.

Or, as the preacher man might say, “Have some cow shit, man!”

His record as a surgeon seems quite good as far as I am aware. Given that, and his turbocharged cluelessness on nearly every other area of life, I’m starting to think of him as an idiot-savant.

The weirdest part of this “story” is the $10.00. How the heck–and why–does a $10.00 prize fit in here? Did he actually take the $10.00? And, if so, why? – What did he believe it represented? This whole “story/hoax” is so convoluted.