2006-03-07
College Patriotism Post, undermined...
.... by the fact that the info is now somewhat out of date (meant to post it earlier, but hey)
The House of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Oxford, commonly called Oriel College, is double head of the river!
Cue much celebration and an normally mild mannered and reserved undergraduate (who bears an unnerving resemblance to the young Peter Wimsey, and dresses like the sixties never happened, but nevertheless is not actually British) shouting rather coarse insults at a driver who had the temerity to object to the triumphant procession of one of the old shells up the High to Oriel front quad...
Oxford is a somwhat strange place.
The House of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Oxford, commonly called Oriel College, is double head of the river!
Cue much celebration and an normally mild mannered and reserved undergraduate (who bears an unnerving resemblance to the young Peter Wimsey, and dresses like the sixties never happened, but nevertheless is not actually British) shouting rather coarse insults at a driver who had the temerity to object to the triumphant procession of one of the old shells up the High to Oriel front quad...
Oxford is a somwhat strange place.