Well, maybe the term gallows humor is overstating things just a bit since the job prospects for college graduates these days are much better than they were just a few years ago. Nonetheless, there are still an awful lot of kids with no better place to hang up their sheepskin than on one of the basement walls in their parents’ house.
From the Drew Sheneman archives at NJ.com.
On a related note, this story at USA Today recounts some of the most entertaining commencement speeches of recent years including the following quip from Stephen Colbert:
At his alma mater, Northwestern, in 2011, he started off by thanking the university president, the board … “and thank you, parents! Of course, if you don’t thank them now, you’ll have plenty of time to thank them tomorrow when you move back in with them.”
