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BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford

02 Apr 06 - 11:54 AM (#1708806)
Subject: BS: Boat race between Cambridge and Oxford
From: Scooby Doo

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


02 Apr 06 - 12:27 PM (#1708818)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Zany Mouse

Booooooooooo


02 Apr 06 - 01:42 PM (#1708853)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: mandotim

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


02 Apr 06 - 02:45 PM (#1708893)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Rapparee

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?


02 Apr 06 - 02:56 PM (#1708902)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Crane Driver

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


02 Apr 06 - 03:00 PM (#1708905)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Scooby Doo


02 Apr 06 - 04:33 PM (#1708971)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Rapparee

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


02 Apr 06 - 05:59 PM (#1709033)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: lady penelope

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......


02 Apr 06 - 07:50 PM (#1709100)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Bunnahabhain

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?


02 Apr 06 - 08:44 PM (#1709146)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: billybob

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!


02 Apr 06 - 10:14 PM (#1709222)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Rapparee

Forget the pump thing. Mount a cannon.


03 Apr 06 - 04:13 AM (#1709325)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Dave the Gnome

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

:D (tG)


04 Apr 06 - 03:39 AM (#1709989)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: Strollin' Johnny

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


04 Apr 06 - 06:55 PM (#1710631)
Subject: RE: BS: Boat racebetween Cambridge and Oxford
From: McGrath of Harlow

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