Well Christmas must be coming if an old Boar's Head thread resurfaces. So I shall add my favourite bit off pedantry, it's not "Queen's College", it's THE Queen's College Oxford. The college specialised in students from the north (particularly Cumberland and Westmorland) and transport being a bit slow in the old days, they didnt go home for Christmas at Queen's, unlike the other Oxford Colleges. So they always had a big Christmas Gaudy(Oxford for Feast). And they still do, though it's shifted to just before Christmas. And the boar's head is real all right, and the choir still sing the old carol as they carry it in.And I went to that dinner a few years back (Queeen's being my old college) and disgraced myself by snowballing people during the dinner...very felicitously there was a heavy fall of snow actually while we were dining.(Not actually in the hall, the buildings are a bit old but they are adequately roofed) And I have some gold painted bay and rosemary leaves as a souvenir, which are used to decorate the head.