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| Planarity | |
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| Good practice for whoever updates the incest chart. | |
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| Roads4Bikes | |
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| Apparently when some mindless local authority drone puts green paint on the pavement, this will now become compulsory for cyclists. (2 comments...) | |
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| Monopoly - Here and Now | |
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| Everyone loves to skew a web-based popularity contest. Monopoly is currently running a poll to determine which cities should occupy which spaces on their new board; first place takes the Mayfair spot, and so on downwards. Cambridge is currently Bond Street - it should clearly be higher. (4 comments...) | |
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| My Football Club | |
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| Should we be thinking about a more democratic approach to crew selection? (1 comment...) | |
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| Pain... Lactic acid..! | |
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| The rowing is nothing special but just listen to that soundtrack. | |
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| From an old message board | |
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| He just seems to have got the club wrong... (1 comment...) | |
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| So this is why we go so fast... | |
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| ...the college's female rowers look like men. | |
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| Chocolate training | |
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| If the reported heart rate increases are true, maybe we should start doing all UT2 training in the lard cupboard? | |
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| CUBC at the HoRR | |
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| Stroke is hanging at the catch. Unforgivable. He'd better sort it out by next weekend... (3 comments...) | |
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| Google Maps - NY to Dublin | |
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| Rich and Dan's next potential challenge? Check out step 23... (1 comment...) | |
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| Doctor Who? | |
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| I have just discovered the Doctor Who was at some point in the past / future a member of FaT. The trousers are unmistakeable. (1 comment...) | |
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| CUBC to enter the eights head | |
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One rowing headline away from the Cam this week is CUBC's decision to enter the eights head which this year is the weekend before the Boat Race.
An interesting approach to tapering, but maybe JPD can comment on whether in previous years (CUBC have held their penultimate week camp in Nottingham for the past 15 years) the crews have spent the weekend before doing a 5k on the Trent.
My guess is that this may have been linked to the cutting of funding to triallists who refused to join the GB squad for winter training in Reading. Maybe this is an attempt to point out to GB Rowing that they're just as good as Leander.
Another thought is that last year's wash up suggested they couldn't cope with either the Tideway itself or the pressure of a busy race day. (3 comments...) | |
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| Dangerous coxing | |
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It's a hard life being a cox.
Also, am slightly displeased at the appearance of a certain Peter Brandt video on youtube... (3 comments...) | |
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| Cracknell enters Coast to Coast | |
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| Cracknell reckons he's tough enough to crack NZ... (5 comments...) | |
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| W1 bump Emma | |
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| Video taken on my camera from grassy. (1 comment...) | |
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| FaT W1 rowing over head | |
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| Listen carefully at 12 seconds in for some classic Iain | |
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| Grape Plasma | |
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| Something all Physics geeks will appreciate! | |
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| Great bumps footage | |
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| Awesome (6 comments...) | |
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| Cambridge Evening News, Monday 5/3/07 | |
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| Report on Saturday's racing (somebody clever could perhaps add a picture of the actual newspaper report). There was also a snippet in the sports section of the Telegraph today. | |
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| Cambridge Evening News, Friday 2/3/07 | |
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| Report on Thursday's racing. | |
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| Lents Photos | |
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I didn't want to spam this site with 100 photos, so here they are. Includes W1 getting their University Medals, M1 racing past the P&E and then stopping off there, and the Fair Maid of Kent leaving the Boat House,
Part II is here (4 comments...) | |
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| The starting cannons | |
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| Jon Davies has created a video of the starting cannons being fired - like you've never seen them before. Awesome. (2 comments...) | |
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| Google search | |
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| Type 'french military victories' and click 'I'm feeling lucky'. (This courtesy of Sam Lings.) (1 comment...) | |
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| Something to keep BPBC off the streets? | |
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| Might clash with the Mays though... | |
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| National quiz championships | |
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| Given BPBC and F&T's pub quiz skills, someone in the club might do well in this... | |
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| Quick change | |
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| Proof that women don't actually need hours to get ready for a night out. (1 comment...) | |
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| 99 things to do in cambridge... | |
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| The wonders of youtube... | |
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| Newsmap | |
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| A different style of news aggregator | |
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| Familiar name commenting on a BBC story | |
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| 15 comments... |
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| Nautical jousting | |
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| Three pictures demonstrating why french people and rowing should never mix. | |
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| doublejeu | |
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| a game (1 comment...) | |
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| Yorkshire Airlines | |
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| A classic video! | |
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| Line Rider | |
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| 1 comment... |
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| Travel time maps | |
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| Juggling Tae Bo | |
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"Remember - if you feel faint or light-headed, that means you're just not working hard enough."
A vital addition to any serious training plan. (1 comment...) | |
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| How Unique Is Your Name? | |
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| There are 33 of me (4 comments...) | |
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| Human Powered boats | |
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| link takes you to the one of the photo pages but the whole site is worth a look as well | |
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| Dolmio Ads | |
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| Bizarre, but brilliant - number 4 is my favourite (needs sound, which is not safe for work!) | |
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| Searching flickr for "First and Third" | |
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| Hmmmm. | |
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| Brazilian Footballer name generator | |
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| world cup related fun (7 comments...) | |
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| Regatta Radio | |
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| Official radio station for HRR, available online and on 106FM in Henley. Features me as breakfast show co-host. | |
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| surname database | |
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what's the social status of your surname?
57% of people have a social status superior to moi :( (4 comments...) | |
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| Google Trends | |
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| See how many people are searching on google for different things. (5 comments...) | |
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| Deal or No Deal | |
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| For all those people who have never seen the tv programme, this is the underlying game. | |
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| Fortune Telling Service | |
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| Surprisingly accurate... | |
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| A website for Waugh, Chappell and Boon? | |
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| Bumps board game | |
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| Surely the club needs one for the Captain's Room? | |
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| People's Petition | |
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| A chance to stand up (fairly anonymously!) and be counted. | |
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| Pimp my snack | |
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| 1 comment... |
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| River Crossing Game | |
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Click on the big blue button to start...
Everybody has to cross the river, but there are rules:
1. Only 2 people on the raft at a time.
2. The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mothers presence (or he will beat them).
3. The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their fathers presence (or she will beat them).
4. The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there.
5. Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
6. To start click on the big blue circle on the right.
7. To move the people click on them. To move the raft click on the handle. (2 comments...) | |
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| Historic Programmes | |
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| Should the RTT regatta include pillow fighting this year? (1 comment...) | |
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| Jet2 Lazy Frogs | |
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| I would now like to encourage you all to consider Jet2 for your travel needs (although their "hit the slopes flying" advert sounds like a bad idea to me). (1 comment...) | |
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| BBC boat analysis | |
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| I find the description of a 3-rower very interesting. | |
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| Times for the Times | |
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| To those of you that, like me, fail to complete the Times Crossword on a regular basis, this site may be invaluable. Updated daily, it explains the wordplay to the harder clues, especially useful if difficult (literary etc) references are involved. | |
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| Love every... | |
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| This from The Slug | |
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| Fun with Google | |
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| Go to Google UK. Type in "Downing Boat Club". Click "I'm Feeling Lucky". (18 comments...) | |
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| Remote coaching | |
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| Currently used for battle, I see this having coaching/captaincy uses... captains can monitor who's out on the lash, and coaches can stay at the boathouse and see if people are quiching. | |
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| Face Recognition (!) | |
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| Hours of fun to be had for the vain/celebrity obsessed/curious amongst you...just stick in a photo of you or a mate, and hey presto, you get told which celeb you most look like! Genius.... | |
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| Extreme Rowing | |
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| just like real rowing, apart from the sharks and the constant backing it down | |
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| Oddest Japanese fighting game | |
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OK we all know the Japanese have an unhealthy obsession with young girls. We also know that they produce some incredibly strange computer games. I guess it is therefore only natural that they'd make a beat-em-up where young girls fight each other, but one where you also have to take pictures of your opponents' panties? (If you don't believe me, watch the video).
P.S. I did not stumble across this page because I searched for "panty shot" | |
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| Gizoogle | |
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| Every site is better this way.... (1 comment...) | |
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| House Lights | |
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| Possible boathouse decorations for the Christmas Head? (1 comment...) | |
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| Amusing Crush Calculator | |
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| Requires sound for full effect. And a sense of humour... | |
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| News item on beer goggles | |
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| one for the bop? | |
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| Comedy Bow Man | |
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How did he get in there?!?
(CUBC I racing at the Fours' Head) (1 comment...) | |
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| Rich and Dan on the BBC!! | |
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| Floating boathouse | |
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| Let's get one of these... we could take it down to the reach during bumps and get a great view of the racing. | |
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| Cricket. On Ice. | |
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This might be something that the international multisport wing of FaT/BPBC might be interested in: cricket, in Estonia, in February, on ice. They have a competition for teams from Cambridge and Oxford on the weekend of 16-19 February, followed by all sorts of "extra-curricular" activities including snowmobiling, snow rally karting, and (I kid you not) Kalashnikov shooting.
Anyone interested in putting a team together? | |
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| Cat bowling | |
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| Halloween related bowling game... | |
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| On the Moon | |
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| Hmmm....hope i'm not the only one to find this series pretty hilarious....if you liked the Kenya song and all the badger stuff, you might just get it! This link's to the first episode but there are two more, if you're not confused enough yet..... | |
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| Haptic clothing | |
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| LBCs, are you reading this? | |
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| A crew races at a head race | |
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| Great ejector crab photos, interesting captions, and another race to add to the list of those we should try - makes Grassy look easy | |
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| Google Print search | |
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| Searching for First and Third throws up too many results... | |
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| Mystic Meg | |
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| 3 comments... |
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| A puzzle | |
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| Google Maps Pedometer | |
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Switch to Hybrid view and double-click the map to calculate distance for a running/ cycling/ rowing route...
Site doesn't seem to "jump to" cambridge correctly using the GeoCode name, so the full URL above should zoom to Cambridge. | |
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| Old rowing photos | |
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Can we identify the places in the photos? There's one which looks like a view of the Plough and crews going round Ditton (rowing to the start) but is "the finish line" Top Finish or somewhere else?
A further challenge would be to identify the flag, which doesn't look much like a cat and buns. Any takers? (1 comment...) | |
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| Do you know what's next? | |
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| Good time-waster | |
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| LMBC did not invent the blazer | |
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| LMBC sometime claim to have invented the blazer. Looks like the Navy beat them to it. (1 comment...) | |
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| Newspaper report on the 1888 Lents | |
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The far right column reports on the enquiry into the death of a rower in the 1888 Lent bumps.
The myth is that it involved 2nd Trinity and the St John's BC and led to the folding of the former and 200 year censure of the latter (and the formation of Lady Margaret BC to avoid this ban). Unfortunately the truth is less spectacular - you have to ask whether bumps would still be taking place if the Coroner had directed the jury towards manslaughter. | |
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| he he he he he! | |
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a recommendation
not bumps related, but too funny not to post here. cath - am v sorry, suspect yu will be asked to remove this shortly. (3 comments...) | |
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| Row? Across the Channel? | |
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| "Are you a sailor? Would you row across the Channel?" said Fred Caygill, from the Maritime Coastguard Agency. | |
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| Fixing the slide/calf connection problem | |
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| Finally, a solution to the problem of slides in the backs of your legs... | |
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| Amazing Clock | |
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| I don't know how or why I found this, but I liked it. | |
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| I told you so | |
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| Could be useful... There is now a website group ready for you to astonish the rest of the club with your Mystic Meg abilities - itoldyouso@firstandthird.org | |
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| This is motivation! | |
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| We'll just have to convince him to do a masters here... | |
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| Reds have a sporting advantage | |
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| Not applicable to college rowing, obviously... | |
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| So this is whereJeff Mackowiak's been... | |
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Apologies to anyone who doesn't know Jeff and thus won't get it.
He's even wearing his Hawks club tie! (1 comment...) | |
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| Penny bridges etc. | |
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| What to do with all those pennies acquired at formal hall... | |
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| Italian Stallion | |
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| Revising for my law exams I constantly questioned my sanity, until I read this report and realised that, yes, there is no point in trying to make any rational sense of anything... | |
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| Videos from back yonder | |
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| I've only just discovered this page. it has videos from all the major events over that last few years. including FaT II glorious victory in City Sprints in 2001 with some well dodgy steering by what may be yours truly. It also has videos of steph whooping my arse at wallingford last weekend.... (3 comments...) | |
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| Yahoo! News - photos | |
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| Stupid Puzzle | |
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| Not an evening well spent | |
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| Physics of rowing | |
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| So this is what the dark side are planning... (2 comments...) | |
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| Oxford Looniversity | |
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| No-one ever said you had to have brains to be admitted to Oxford. (2 comments...) | |
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| Punch a politician! | |
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| Does your vote count? | |
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| interesting way to promote voter apathy? | |
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| Pledge bank | |
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| EatLiver.com | |
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| Rigging for spanners | |
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