at least basket weaving gives you a marketable skill.
What they need is for something really offensive to cross their palate, so they can regain some helpfully informed perspective. Let's try this:
"Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology?" What the EFF is that, if not a titular admission of having no real use, purpose or value in our system of higher education? The three-toed bayotch of a corn-fed, corn-rowed, corn-holed ho!
There, maybe THAT will help...