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The lycra debate: it rumbles on
Last week's poll caused more conversation than the usual. Let's have some in depth analysis.
All lycra-based clothing makes rowers of the opposite sex look sexy  29%
All lycra-based clothing makes rowers of the opposite sex look wrong  4%
Tech tops and leggings are one thing, it's all in ones I have a problem with  36%
It's not the material, it's the design: hoops make me look FaT  11%
I won the Fairbairn Cup in 1956 in my single scull wearing cotton slacks and a zephyr  25%
Sod lycra, I want to do the Lents in PVC  46%
Total: 28 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Rowers of the opposite sex wearing lycra (generally) look...
Sexy  68%
Minging  23%
Like gigolos/whores  10%
Total: 31 members' votes   (24 comments...)
What shall we call them?
We have a lot of new boats in need of names. Two new eights, two new sculls, the Light Four and the Coastal Four. Either pick your favourites from the options below (one for each boat), or suggest another.
Black Prince (men's eight)  89%
Riccardo (men's eight)  3%
Other (men's eight)  5%
The Ladies' Plate (women's eight)  0%
Henry the Eight (women's eight)  32%
Valkyrie (women's eight)  16%
John Pierrepoint Morgan (women's eight)  0%
Fair Maid of Kent (women's eight)  18%
Power in the Water (women's eight)  3%
The Random Buftie (women's eight)  16%
Other (men's eight)  8%
Pike and Eel (sculls)  37%
Cat and Buns (sculls)  37%
Blue and Gold (sculls)  5%
Flotsam and Jetsam (sculls)  11%
Other (sculls)  11%
Hydra (light four)  50%
Ariel (light four)  18%
Martin Rees (light four)  18%
Other (light four)  8%
Ursula (coastal)  13%
Circe (coastal)  5%
Leviathan (coastal)  68%
Other (coastal)  13%
Total: 38 members' votes   (29 comments...)
IM?
Which is your favourite?
ICQ  8%
Yahoo  0%
MSN/Windows Live  69%
Skype  8%
Google Talk  12%
Miranda  0%
Hawaii, if I qualify  4%
Total: 26 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust?
England's quest to retain the Ashes, won so gloriously last summer as predicted by First and Third, begins this week. How will they fare?
WIN: England 5 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 4 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 4 - 1 Australia  0%
WIN: England 3 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 3 - 1 Australia  4%
WIN: England 2 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 3 - 2 Australia  4%
WIN: England 2 - 1 Australia  19%
WIN: England 1 - 0 Australia  0%
DRAW: England 2 - 2 Australia  19%
DRAW: England 1 - 1 Australia  7%
DRAW: England 0 - 0 Australia  4%
LOSE: England 0 - 1 Australia  0%
LOSE: England 1 - 2 Australia  11%
LOSE: England 2 - 3 Australia  0%
LOSE: England 0 - 2 Australia  4%
LOSE: England 1 - 3 Australia  11%
LOSE: England 0 - 3 Australia  0%
LOSE: England 1 - 4 Australia  4%
LOSE: England 0 - 4 Australia  7%
LOSE: England 0 - 5 Australia  7%
Total: 27 members' votes   (10 comments...)

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