The long boat game

[MrGongGong]

Like I said back to the Tories

[teamsaint]

not at all mr GG

round here we had a DR/MR/well a medical person anyway as a lib dem candidate so they can't all be tories...................Oh.

[MrGongGong]

not at all mr GG

round here we had a DR/MR/well a medical person anyway as a lib dem candidate so they can't all be tories...................Oh.

[kernelbogey]

And they get very huffy if you call them Doctor.

The information in my post 287 came from an occasion when, in a meeting, I referred to the psychiatrist present as 'Mr' Blogs. His elegant response was 'Alas, as a mere psychiatrist, and not a surgeon, you have to refer to me as Dr Blogs'.

[John Skelton]

And they get very huffy if you call them Doctor.

Just apologise and say you'd assumed they were qualified .

[Resurrection Man]

Lest this rather excellent article in the Independent get overlooked http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/...nton-oldfield/. Apologies if it's already been mentioned. Too many pages of Off-topic bumph to wade through. Terribly 'elitist'.

[EdgeleyRob]

Blimey,where did that year go !
Still boring

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And still only 2 universities allowed to compete. Now an all-universities boat race final on the Thames. That would be interesting.

[Flosshilde]

Was it on today? I thought it was usually Saturday, & my mother had made a mistake when she said it was on this afternoon.

[MrGongGong]

And still only 2 universities allowed to compete. Now an all-universities boat race final on the Thames. That would be interesting.

And why are the same ones allowed to have multiple teams on University Challenge ?
Daft nonsense indeed .........

[teamsaint]

its a " Blink and you'll miss it" event.

Sadly this year I forgot to blink.

[MrGongGong]

All we need to know is

1: Did anyone sink ?
2: Are they really students ? Or just strong chaps pretending to be ?

(http://www.independent.co.uk/student...m-8535247.html)

and

3: Did anyone have a go at disrupting it ?

[EdgeleyRob]

I didn't see it,just amazed that it has been almost a year since I started this thread!

[eighthobstruction]

See you next year then Rob....nuff said ....same time same place....

[mangerton]

Was it on today? I thought it was usually Saturday, & my mother had made a mistake when she said it was on this afternoon.

Oh flossie, surely you know by now...... mothers are always right.