Musings on a hot lunchtime before breakfast

[enismirdal]

Your Cambridge Quotient is 74%

Our Verdict:

Well done, while you are not afraid to have a go, you have resisted becoming sucked into the pit of ponceyness that is Cambridge. You could even safely purchase some items of college clothing, and become involved in the odd society without losing that important sense of reality.

Cambridge Purity Test

Are there any May Balls within hearing distance of me tonight or do I get to sleep without earplugs now?

I am going to buy a book later. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Tolkien version of.

Comments

[senji.livejournal.com]

I got 142%

Hmm :)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Saw this on ucam.adverts - not sure if it's what you want...

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:25:17 +0100
From: zm228 <zm228@cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: ucam.adverts.forsale
Subject: Lit Books for Immediate Sale!

50 pence: Alpers, Paul - The Poetry of the Faerie Queene (Hardcover, no
dustjacket, pages crisp and white)



50 pence: Tolkien, J.R.R., and E.V. Gordon - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(rather battered, but no torn pages, no loose pages)




50 pence: Hoy, Cyrus - Hamlet (This is the Norton critical edition. Old, but
crisp and nice)

50 pence: Kimbrough, Robert - Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and its
Setting (Hardcover, no dustjacket, old)



2 pounds: Wu, Duncan - Romanticism, An Anthology (Large paperback. Pretty
good condition)





50 pence: Langland, William transl. J.F. Goodridge - Piers the Ploughman
(Old Penguin Paperback, some loose pages).

2 pounds: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight transl. Keith Harrison (verse
translation. Very new)



2 pounds: Chaucer, Geoffrey transl. Barry Windeatt - Troilus and Criseyde
(Well thumbed condition)



2 pounds: Tillyard, E.M.W - Milton (one of the best critical works on Milton
ever. Paperback, old, but good condition).


3 pounds: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J.J. Anderson (some creases
on the back cover. Otherwise good condition)



3 pounds: The Vision of Piers Plowman, ed. Schmidt, A.V.C (creases on the
spine and a crease on the back cover. Otherwise good condition)



4 pounds: Beckwith, Sarah - Christ's Body (very new)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the chap I'm buying it off. Indeed.

[sheffers.livejournal.com]

103% here. And this is despite owning College clothing from two Colleges, spotting both Professor Hawking and Rory McGrath in the street (and asking the latter for directions) and being able to name all 30 Colleges.

I should get a point as well for always capitalizing the word "college" in connection with Cambridge Colleges.

[(Anonymous)]

That's odd. I can name 34 plus the 1 the post cards and book marks omit. This may be because I include all the theological ones.
Abner

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

There do seem to be an absurd number of places to put Thelogians considering how few of them there actually seem to be in the University...

[atreic.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, Theological Colleges arn't there for people doing a BA in theology! Real colleges do that! Theological colleges are for people who want to be priests / vicars / methodist ministers etc.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

What qualification do you get out of that at the end? Does it have a name?

And where on Earth do they all come from?! :) Cambridge can't be the only minister-training-facility in the UK...

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Well, they get ordained, and get to be vicors, or ministers, or whatever, which is kind of more important than the actual qualification. But at Ridley hall you can get these, and wesley house seem to have similar things But it's all secondary to Becoming In Charge Of A Church.

[sheffers.livejournal.com]

Ok, Ridley, Westminster, Wesley and Westcott.

Hmm, I can't think of the plus 1. Do you mean another theological? The Margaret Beaufort Institute? I thought that was part of Wesley.

[(Anonymous)]

Westminster is the plus one. Hugh's Hall is the other. A _very_ long way out from anywhere (as one who tried to assassinate a person there).
Abner

[sheffers.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes. And I forgot it too, I had Lucy Cav, St Ed's, Wolfson, Darwin and Clare Hall from the grad/mature Colleges but I completely forgot poor old Hughes.

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

117%. Although I only got 24 colleges, assuming that Oberon was not supposed to be counted.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Did you count all the mature ones? I got bored at about 27 because of the diminishing-returns principle.

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

I think so. I didn't write my list down, though, and if I thought I'd already mentioned a college I didn't add the number in. So there are reasonable odds I was missing some of the more obvious ones on grounds of "already got that".

[melime.livejournal.com]

pit of ponceyness that is Cambridge

LOL. That made me giggle. I absolutely must visit your university now, if only to discover exactly what a "pit on ponceyness" looks like. ;)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's the people who really do wear bow ties and navy blue blazers with brass buttons down the front - there are a few. I really don't find my university poncy for the most part so much as a bit mad. Lots of random rules that have had no relevance to anything in last 100 years, and traditions that make no sense at all!

[melime.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess some silly traditions are always fun, right? All we have are drunk frat boys and sorority girls getting drunk and dunking each other in the fountains (either that or pouring soap into them).

And the only people who dress up even a little bit nice here are Mormons. I would love to see the Mormons wearing bowties, though. Heee.