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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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