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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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