The Official Oxbridge Rumour Thread

oooh you did not just say that.. if thats so true, why do they use six letters of Cambridge and just two of Oxford then ey?

The rumours about Brasenose being a secret den of unicorn fetish enactments are all very very true.

I have a Blade! It's pretty much the best thing ever.

My college got head of the river this year, and you're right, we burnt an old boat...not the Empacher....

The rumours about Brasenose being a secret den of unicorn fetish enactments are all very very true.

I have a Blade! It's pretty much the best thing ever.

My college got head of the river this year, and you're right, we burnt an old boat...not the Empacher....

Oxfridge doesn't have quite the same ring to it!

i think oxfridge sounds better! hehe

I have a metaphorical blade but not a physical one - still waiting for it to be made.

As for Head of the River, we burnt an old shell as well, but surely one day we'll run out of the old wooden ones?

They don't get burnt as much as they're used, do they? Seeing as every team uses one but doesn't burn one a year (or however often they're replaced).

Sorry, I don't know much about it as you can probably tell, but I would have thought that is where the supply is coming from.

Um, a boat lasts for much longer than a year. But the point was boats are now made out of 'carbon reinforced plastic' or fibreglass not wood, anymore. So they aren't replacing the wooden boats and eventually, a club will run out of wooden boats. Since plastic or fibreglass are more problematic to burn, this may be a problem. Except for us, we won't run out of wooden boats ever!

Surely they could just have one made as a symbolic thing as that is what it really is...or just buy a cheap wooden one and paint it. Or alternately they could get someone to make one out of paper and burn it in a kind of Viking funeral way...

They've never been to keen on health and safety- one of the traditions is the winning crew jumps the burning boat (in formal wear after boat club dinner) and I believe recently a cox set herself on fire during a boat burning.

I think the name Coxfridge-upon-Amford ought to be invented, right now. Oh look, I just did. Yay! It is now the recognised term because I said so, and I are smart.

Is you really?

I think the name Coxfridge-upon-Amford ought to be invented, right now. Oh look, I just did. Yay! It is now the recognised term because I said so, and I are smart.

You are very strange *calls the shrinks*