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The annual Oxford tortoise race. The Magdalen tortoise Oscar wins every year, but gets disqualified because Oscar is actually a JCR committee member dressed up in a costume.

J.

And wearing a batcape for dinner???

And wearing a batcape for dinner???

The proper batcape is only for scholars whilst the commoner's gown is sleeveless, is it not?

We wear the scholar's gowns regularly whilst on prefect business; i wear a special blue one.

J.

Gowns are different at each college. We have sleeves, and damn annoying they are too!

at oxford the gowns are the same for all colleges - for undergrads there's the commoner's gown which is sleeveless, and the scholars gown (for getting a high first in mods or prelims or something) which has long sleeves.

Assasins are people who go around once a term shooting rubber band guns and water pistols at other assasins who have signed up for the game. Most of them don't know what the others look like and thus go around all term being extremely paranoid (opening post with gloves incase someone poisons them and opening doors from ten feet away with string incase someone has planted a bomb). The last person in Cambridge left alive wins. One of my best friends is an assasin and it is extremely funny watching him go into a panic everytime somebody knocks on his door.

The annual Oxford tortoise race. The Magdalen tortoise Oscar wins every year, but gets disqualified because Oscar is actually a JCR committee member dressed up in a costume.

J.

Assasins are people who go around once a term shooting rubber band guns and water pistols at other assasins who have signed up for the game. Most of them don't know what the others look like and thus go around all term being extremely paranoid (opening post with gloves incase someone poisons them and opening doors from ten feet away with string incase someone has planted a bomb). The last person in Cambridge left alive wins. One of my best friends is an assasin and it is extremely funny watching him go into a panic everytime somebody knocks on his door.

We had a similar thing at my prep school, but it incorporated Lord of The Rings into it and no rubber bands and water pistols. People were issued with rings, to which they had to hide from others but had to wear at all times, whilst over a term had to complete tasks, the person to complete the most tasks won. At the end we all dressed up in Lord of the Rings stuff and had a banquet. It was quite fun, but then we were only 10.

I signed up for assasins when i first came. sounded hilarious. Quick relisation though was it was a geeks game, which they all took very seriously. I know a guy who spent days making a HUGGGGGGE cardboard tank for gods sake
J