A new degree in ‘Smug Bastards’ (BA with Hons) is being offered at Cambridge University starting next year. Students will be able to study famous smug bastards throughout history alongside those carrying the smugness torch into the 21st century.

Some of the course highlights and key figures being studied include:

• Leonardo Da Vinci - cleverer, and smuger, than anyone else for the next 500 years and he wrote everything in the Da Vinci Code so nobody could replicate his work


• Henry VIII – had seven wives, smug enough to cut off their heads off if he decided he didn’t like them


• Sean Connery - the smug Scot still has more sex appeal in his seventies than the majority of men will ever have

Three smug bearded bastards

Students will also study those who seemingly had everything but lost it all.

Saddam Hussein is a prime example, the professor chortled “If he hadn’t gone and invaded Kuwait, Saddam could have rivaled some of the smuggest bastard dictators in history.”

According to Dr. Hole, Fidel Castro was one dictator that got the right mix of smugness and ambition. Students study himin their final year.

Cambridge’s scholars, not well known for their modesty have embraced the new subject with open arms. Social Sciences department head Dr W. A. Nennker “We are very excited about this new branch of learning. All of human achievement was built by smug bastards such as myself, and we hope to equip future generations with the skills to become the most smug Cambridge graduates history has ever seen.” Donald Trump is still defecating on a gold plated toilet on his private jet and was ‘unavailable for comment’.

Trump: no beard, but very smug nonetheless

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