That’s useful. 
I’m cold and wet through. Football training in the pouring rain 
Oh come on – if they have “Teenage Dirtbag”, I’ll even sing my own personal Straight Dope version… 
Gyrate, Gyrate, Gyrate, how much do you love cookies?
Eh? CamDope? When what how did that happen?
I dunno, Shade, but I am personally quite intrigued.
Shall you all be actually in the river?
Wet t shirt and trouser competitions in November - you are truly hardy individuals over there in GB. If I had a hat on, I’d take it off to you all.
Yes, if I was organising it, I’d have called it CantabDope to avoid confusion I had heard something - Angua was visiting in december, and wondered who’d be around. But nothing else.
And for ‘hardy’ read ‘stupid’ or ‘drunk’ when it comes to the cam - it’s not so much the cold (which is quite deadly) but the toxicity…
Sorry to disappoint, but CamDope = Camden Dope. Those London-centric dopers
Aha! Thanks. I figured there must be another Cam* in the uk, but I couldn’t for the life of me think of one. Though I suppose a literal Cam Dope could be held anywhere on the Cam, not just at the Bridge.
Yeah, there is more than one Cam* in the UK. Gah, you Cambridge types, so insular.
Anyway, a CanTABDope may be forthcoming, it all depends on the finer details.
Shade, I knew a fellow collage-mate of yours who jumped into the Cam at dawn on Suicide Sunday a couple of years ago. He had to go to Addenbrookes to get his stomach pumped. :eek:
Your point would have been more ocnvincingly made if it contained a ‘for instance, off the top of my head:’ 
Yep, that story rings a bell. Several bells even, but I’m fairly sure one of them really happened.
Camden, Cambourne.
The stuff of urban legends. Varisty reported it, not that that means anything mind you. I could give a name as well, but I don’t know if that’d be allowed.
BTW - I hear Gonville and Caius want to close down Gardies. :mad:
Not that I doubted - as I said I was sure there were some, I just couldn’t think of any. But I hope to avoid one day having to have Cambridge,Cambridgeshire,UK-dopes
Yep. Well, according to Varsity…
(I’ve been losing trust in student papers since I saw a retraction that said “No, our front page story last week wasn’t true. It was a slow news day and the editor made it up.”)
Well, quite. I lost trust in Varisty the day they managed to misquote me from a CUSU Open Meeting that I hadn’t even been able to attend but had, as the GEEMA Officer on CUSU sent an official GEEMA statement to. So not only did they misquote what I said (IIRC it was about this entire hoo-ha with the Duke of Edinburgh, and him saying something silly and racist, and CUSU and the student press over-reacting as usual, and me being the voice of reason, telling them all that its not a big deal, and lets concentrate on the real issues here), but the idiots didn’t even realise that I wasn’t even there!
So, yeah, I wouldn’t trust a Varsity hack any further than I could throw them. But apparantly, the BBC have picked up on the entire Gardies is closing thing, so maybe there is some truth to the rumour.
And on that note, I think we should stop hijacking this thread. Its just wrong.
Yeah, that kind of thing. It becomes understandable when you realise it’s being written by a hungover student under a lot of time pressure. The scary thing is, how much all papers are like that.
I assuming this story is true - most of the stories are true, just not as many as we’d hope/assume Though, while it’s a shame, I can’t really bring myself to care that much.
Hasn’t this thread actually been a gigantic hijack all along? How of hundreds of posts actually been about organising a the dopefest? And since when have we not done wrong things?
But yes, I feel a bit guilty sometimes. Maybe we should have a ‘cambridge-related posts we wanted to make in another thread, but they would have been hijacks’ thread somewhere
Scarier still is how many of these Varsity/TCS hacks actually go on to become “proper” journalists.
Good point. A lot of this thread has in fact been “lets make fun of Angua”, not naming any Dopers in particular coughGyratecough**coughianzincough**coughgarius*cough
well its that or a flirtfest no?
No, not really. There have been known to be threads which have not degenerated into flirtfests. I just can’t think of any at the moment.
Besides, no one wants to flirt with me at the moment, they all just want to poke fun at me. :sulk:
awww poor Angua
Aw, bubbeleh…we tease because we love, you know that…
Science threads?
Didn’t you say something about giving up online flirting for Ramadan?