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Rich and Dan

Now they're off, you can be honest. They're:

Barking		77%

Brave		74%

Brilliant		74%

Total: 31 members' votes (5 comments...)

After how much rowing would you have classified yourself a boatie rather than just a rower?

Are you in a boatie relationship? Do you spend more than two hours a day at the boathouse? Have you ever worn lycra for anything except rowing? Are more than fifty percent of your friends rowers? Do you arrive (late) at lectures in your splashtop? Come to think of it, do you miss most of your lectures/supervisions because you're still at the boathouse? If the answer to more than two of these questions is yes, you are a boatie. But how long did it take for this addiction to creep up on you?

I was a boatie before I arrived at Trinity		6%

They got me at the Chaplains Squash and it's been downhill ever since		26%

As soon as I'd been tubbing		2%

By midway through my novice term		30%

After I'd done Clare Novices		0%

After novice Fairbairns		2%

Once I'd experienced my first Bumps		21%

Once I'd experienced Bumps, in the warm sunshine, with Pimms afterwards		4%

Me, a boatie?! I don't think so!		9%

Total: 47 members' votes (8 comments...)

Do different pasta shapes taste different?

Macaroni goes with a cheesy sauce. Fusilli goes with a tomatoey sauce. Spaghetti was invented to go with bolognese, and you can't have cannelloni without spinach and ricotta. All of these shapes have their merits, but do they actually taste different from one another?

Yes		57%

No		43%

Total: 42 members' votes (19 comments...)

Which club will do best in the Clare Novice Regatta?

Based on
Rounds Won divided by Crews Entered

First and Third Trinity BC		51%

Caius BC		0%

Christ's College BC		3%

Churchill College BC		0%

Clare BC		0%

Clare Hall BC		0%

Corpus Christi College BC		0%

Darwin College BC		0%

Downing College BC		0%

Emmanuel College BC		0%

Fitzwilliam College BC		3%

Girton College BC		0%

Homerton College BC		0%

Hughes Hall BC		3%

Jesus College BC		3%

King's College BC		0%

LMBC		15%

Lucy Cavendish BC		0%

Magdalene BC		0%

New Hall BC		3%

Newnham College BC		0%

Pembroke College BC		0%

Peterhouse BC		3%

Queens' College BC		0%

Robinson College BC		0%

St Catharine's College BC		0%

St Edmund's College BC		0%

Selwyn College BC		0%

Sidney Sussex College BC		0%

Trinity Hall BC		0%

Wolfson College BC		0%

CULRC		18%

Total: 39 members' votes (19 comments...)

Which is sweeter?

Winning men's and women's fours in the space of 30 minutes		71%

Beating LMBC four times in a week		26%

Chocolate		3%

Total: 31 members' votes

Who is the most comedy selfish bastard?

Edmund Blackadder		63%

Basil Fawlty		0%

Homer Simpson		7%

Alan Partridge		23%

Steve Stiffler		0%

Withnail		3%

Oscar Schindler		3%

Total: 30 members' votes (1 comment...)

What's the best exercise for when you're stuck in a queue?

Bear in mind ability to get moving quickly if needed, and effects of stream and wind and constrained spaces.

Roll ups		12%

Frontstops tapping		8%

Backstops tapping		4%

Standing up in the boat (i.e. by taking a stroke)		4%

Cutting the cake		0%

Swapping blades between sides		4%

Pausing on the recovery		8%

Everyone swap seats		62%

Total: 26 members' votes (14 comments...)

What is/was your favourite VIII

Everyone has a favourite boat, past or present.

BP1		26%

Denys Lawrence		12%

BP2		21%

Margot		3%

BP3 [Karlische]		18%

BP4 [Aylings]		0%

BP5 [the wooden thing]		6%

Peter Brandt		9%

Titan		0%

Conqueror		3%

Fair Maid of Kent		0%

Henry		3%

Total: 34 members' votes (23 comments...)

I remember when...

you could walk past Sainsbury's without noticing it was there		33%

everything in the Bridge Street accommodation was wonky, leaking, or live		45%

Burrell's Field only had the big houses		3%

half the computers in the computer room would have blue screens which you couldn't unlock		35%

the first model C ergs arrived at the boathouse		13%

the rising bollards in Trinity Street were put in		18%

the bar was in the corner of Great Court		25%

the dining hall went through the phase of putting banana on everything (e.g. Salmon Caprice)		48%

the bop involved a live DJ, not a computer		33%

all the furniture in College rooms was like the stuff in the boathouse now		35%

no one had swipe cards		10%

Cindy's was Cindy's		8%

Cindy's was 5th Avenue		58%

Eden Lily was more than a photography shop		33%

The Baron of Beef and the Mitre were dingy pubs		58%

The maths department was in town		38%

BP2 (Janousek) was BP1		20%

BP4 (Aylings) was BP1		0%

BP3 was BP1		3%

the river flooded		55%

the river froze		13%

the river was covered with green scum (and I mean the whole river, not just the odd patch)		18%

there was a NatWest at Great Gate		45%

Formal Hall cost three pounds or less		38%

you paid for meals with little tickets with the number of courses written on them		53%

there was a Z Blue Boar		40%

novices rowed 15 minutes after the seniors		35%

none of the above		30%

Total: 40 members' votes (18 comments...)

How often do you check the website?

Every minute		3%

Every hour		10%

Three or four times a day		50%

Daily		23%

Weekly		10%

Monthly		0%

Annually		0%

I have never checked the website		3%

Total: 30 members' votes (7 comments...)

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