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from Mike, Tue 26th Nov, 10:41am

Googlism in reverse. Enter a question such as "Who is boat club captain?" and get a list of possible answers. Sixth on the list is, impressively enough, Andrew Fisher. But not before three Boar's Head members. And check out who follows Andrew on the list...

by Mike - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 10:49am

Oddly enough, it doesn't respond quite so well to the seemingly easy question "Who is Queen of England?". GooglePeople is somewhat confident that the oddly named Anne Boleyn Elizabeth is our Queen, with William Shakespeare (5th), Tobias Hume (8th) and and Robert Johnson (9th) all coming in ahead of Elizabeth II in 11th position. Honourable mentions go to Glenda Jackson (19th) and Cate Blanchett (21st) for at least having portrayed a Queen on film...

by Arthur Gallagher - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 11:01am

Apparently my bedder is Jesus Christ.....

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by ex-LBC - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 11:15am
Roman Bath said: The first female response to "Who is your mum?" is Myra Hindley! "Who is Lower Boats Captain?" comes up with a whole host of FaT people...

by Mike - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 11:24am
GooglePeople is *confident* that the Prime Minister of Great Britain is William Gladstone. Second place is Vladimir Putin...

by dw229 - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 11:57am
Who is Dan Walker's true love? Victoria Kathleen Martin apparently. Better email her...

by Mike - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 1:04pm
dw229 said: Who is Dan Walker's true love? Victoria Kathleen Martin apparently. But Dan Walker comes in at ninth on the list - you might have more chance with him...

by mjb - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 1:05pm
Who is Becca North ? Martin Peck Scary !

by Mike - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 1:10pm
mjb said: Who is Becca North ? Martin Peck Have you ever seen them in the same room together? Who is Mike's next shag? Rather worryingly, some guy called Mike Wade comes top. Also in there is James Bond (fictional), Marilyn Monroe (dead) and Pamela Anderson (plastic). Add in both Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and it's quite a selection...

by mjb - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 1:37pm
Who will pull Matt Byrne at the boat club bop ? Kylie Minogue I'll get my coat ...

by dw229 - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 1:38pm
The answer we've all been waiting for... Who will pull at the Trinity boat club bop? (excluding people who obviously won't be there - e.g. "Jon Glass", "Jesus Green", "Amal Clubs") Tom Rose Simon Knight Simon Case Sarah Taylor Sally Painter Neil Talbott John Earl Guy Taylor Will Thorne Simon Hames Mike Goodson Jenny Maresh Could be....interesting.

by mjb - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 1:44pm
Who is the real Slim Shady ? Britney Spears

by gf - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 1:57pm
mjb said: Who is the real Slim Shady ? Britney Spears Who is hiding Bin Laden? Donald Rumsfeld.

by mjb - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 2:07pm
Unfortunately, the answer to the question 'Who will pull at the Trinity boat club dinner ?' seems to be entirely made up by people from Downing

by Simon - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 3:09pm
dw229 said: The answer we've all been waiting for... Who will pull at the Trinity boat club bop? Could be....interesting. NB how its not me!!!! I always knew I was being misrepresented by the chart!

by Mike - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 3:20pm
Who is a fat boatie?

by mjb - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 4:05pm
who is the lard king

by RTT - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 5:53pm
Sadly, the answer to "Who will be binned next by culrc" is Tom Rose (or at least, he's the first on the list that is actually trialling, behind Iain Law, John Earl, Peter Brandt and Anna McCreadie). There's also a surprise winner in the boat race next year; "Who will win the boatrace next year" yields.....Trinity Hall.

by mjb - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 5:59pm
Who will be binned next by CUWBC ? yields the following answers Simon Case Miss Aiken Martin Peck Jonathan Glass interesting ...

by RTT - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 6:08pm
And the answer to who is rose the twat? Martin Peck!

by Sam - Tue 26th Nov 2002, 6:27pm
Who is the best rower in cambridge? James Cracknell Mel Harbour Steve Redgrave Terry O'neill Jim Fields Keith Noble-Nesbitt & Dan walker manage to squeeze in near the bottom of the list

by RTT - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 11:22am
Ask it "who will cox the cambridge blue boat" and it says: Dan Snow . . Goldie Crew Either way, I suspect they'd lose!

by Not an art student - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 3:44pm
RTT said: Ask it "who will cox the cambridge blue boat" and it says: Either way, I suspect they'd lose! why do you need to ask whos going to cox? its already been decided hasn't it? I was highly offended when i asked "will i get a first?" and it said Art Student

by gf - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 4:01pm
Who will finish Head of the Lents? Martin Peck Dom Beary Chris Ingram

by blast from the past - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 5:30pm
gf said: Who will finish Head of the Lents? Who will finish Head of the May Bumps? In fifth place - Matthew Arnold. Who still remembers him? In sixth place - Martin Peck. Who could forget him? The only two colleges to appear on the list are Trinity Hall and, laughably, Sidney Sussex.

by Still at the club! - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 6:40pm
blast from the past said: Who will finish Head of the May Bumps? In fifth place - Matthew Arnold. Who still remembers him? Probably Claire Painter. He was last BC captain to be quoted in the Times, about when they took the desicion to make the Lents five days..... I remember the shock when he annouced it to my crew. Gosh, I am sounding old. Interestingly enough, "Who is in the Fairburn Eight" yields no, even ex-, 1st and 3rd people in it's 125 or so results. Sounds about par for the course given our illness/injury rate. ;) (P.S. I am not, nor have ever been captain)

by mjb - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 6:56pm
Interestingly enough, "Who is in the Fairburn Eight" yields no, even ex-, 1st and 3rd people in it's 125 or so results. Of course, you could try Who is in the Fairbairn viii Chris Harding is the first FaT person in the list there, followed by Martin Peck and, further down, Stephen Robson. I am mentioned just after Michael Parker ...

by Simon - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 7:05pm
Still at the club! said: Interestingly enough, "Who is in the Fairburn Eight" yields no, even ex-, 1st and 3rd people in it's 125 or so results. Unfortunately, GooglePeople is like me, a pedant. When asked "Who is in the Fairbairn Eight", we see Trinity Hall in first Trinity Nearly in fifteenth (What is this "Trinity Nearly"? Is it the new name for St John's?) Who is watching at Grassy Corner? Martin Peck Meanwhile, Pembroke Oxford are looking good to be head of Torpids

by mjb - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 7:18pm
Still at the club! said: "the Fairburn Eight" You'd have thought he'd have learnt how to spell FairbAIrn by now, having been here so long :-) Then again, so many people in Cambridge also make the same mistake...

by Sam - Wed 27th Nov 2002, 11:18pm
who is going to crash on grassy corner? That would be Trinity Hall, with a confidence of 7 stars!

by 25 in the shade - Thu 28th Nov 2002, 12:37pm
who is the fastest man on earth? (3rd place) Marion Jones - this might annoy Dwaine Chamber, placed 4th

by Lance Snodgrass - Thu 28th Nov 2002, 10:15pm
Well just gave it a go with a test question, "who is the fittest man in Trinity?" naturally expecting my name in response but just got junk back. Asking for the fittest woman however was more interesting with the following results: 1. Wilson Casey (also scoring highly on fit men) 2. Jesus Christ (rarely thought of as a contender) 3. Niccolo Machiavelli (my history classes must have evaded the named's gender) Further down is Michael Angelo (sic)... hmm no FaT lasses listed sadly. My name here, incidently, is the 2nd choice answer to "who is Michael Simmonds?".

by rjn - Fri 29th Nov 2002, 12:08am
'Who are the Trinity Women?' Answer: Adrian Cassidy .................?