BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford

Subject: BS: Boat race between Cambridge and Oxford
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 11:54 AM

What a good race Oxford won,but what a race.
Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 12:27 PM

Booooooooooo

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: mandotim
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 01:42 PM

Boring...same two teams in the final every year!
I'll get me coat...
Tim from Bit on the Side

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 02:45 PM

What happened? They punt the rivers around the towns? Do they wear straw boaters, white flannels, and striped jackets while ladies in white lawn recline in the front of the punt?

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Crane Driver
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 02:56 PM

It's REALLY hard work just rowing between Cambridge and Oxford, never mind racing. The long stretch up the M40 is a killer.

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 03:00 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 04:33 PM

Well, yeah, CD, I wondered about that myself....

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: lady penelope
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 05:59 PM

It is this race that we pause and have a thought for the much missed Mike Mullen. Mike, a dedicated follower of the race would stand at the finish line each year and cheer on his alma mata team ......... Sheffield......

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 07:50 PM

Now you're just being silly. You'd row all the way down the Thames, past East Anglia, into the Wash, and up the Cam. I don' think there are any weirs between Cambridge and the Sea, and neither of the boats have sunk for a few years. They must be ready for the North Sea by now, or what have they been practicing for?

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: billybob
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 08:44 PM

Ok Oxford won, but they said that they had a pump on board, Cambridge lost 'cos they did not and took in loads of water All my family support Oxford, not me, Cambridge for ever, had to take the phone off the hook to avoid the gloating phone calls, they do not even speak, just go "ha ha ha" Cambridge to win in 2007!

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 10:14 PM

Forget the pump thing. Mount a cannon.

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 04:13 AM

What happened to the tradition that an attractive young lady used to kiss the winning team's cox?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 03:39 AM

Yep Dave, it was a real Blow when they stopped it.

Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:55 PM

Incidentally, it's always referred as "the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race" never the "Cambridge Oxford Boat Race". (That's when it's not just called "the Boat Race".)

Well, Oxford is the older university