...and us in our gowns.
The photo obviously doesn't do it justice; I think it's the most beautiful room I've ever seen.
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Posts: 8359 (11/02/09 8:48 PM) Spelling Gestapo |
Jesus wept, Jesus Christ
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Posts: 489 (11/03/09 1:39 AM) |
I didn't know, that you're in Hogwarts.
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Posts: 4308 (11/03/09 8:12 AM) Admin |
What college are you at Twisty? Do they have the concept of "pennying"?
I've been to a few Cambridge formals, always messy events! The civilised surroundings and gowns give entirely the wrong impression of what they are actually like, wine-soaked, drinking game fueled insanity is closer to the truth.
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Posts: 285 (11/03/09 8:42 AM) |
WOW! What a beautiful environment to be in! So, how are things going so far? "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn´t exist." |
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Posts: 3202 (11/03/09 12:03 PM) Purveyor of Filth |
Nice room!!! Spiffy gowns too...I get a very medieval vibe from it. So where are you in the pic Twisty?
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Posts: 3203 (11/03/09 12:06 PM) Purveyor of Filth |
Slap wrote: Gonville and Caius (pronounced like "Kyuss"?) I believe. " wine-soaked, drinking game fueled insanity is closer to the truth"...puts the term "higher education" in its proper context, doesn't it. Debauch...Debase...Defile. |
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Posts: 8360 (11/03/09 12:47 PM) Spelling Gestapo |
Gonville and Caius, pronounced KEYS. And it was founded in 1348, so it is medieval! In the picture... well this is our matric dinner (a special formal hall at
the start of term for Freshers), which is why you can see Fellows (wearing black gowns instead of undergrad blue, and with varying amounts of scarlet which
they are only allowed to wear for some occasions) mixed in with students. I was in the gallery (upatairs), a table over from where this was taken from.
We have formal hall every day, so it's not wine-fuelled insanity! Sorry Slap. Which college is your sister/was your girlfriend at? Jesus wept, Jesus Christ
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Posts: 4311 (11/03/09 3:29 PM) Admin |
puts the term "higher education" in its proper context, doesn't itHa ha, not quite the same as my friends and I in Manchester... we favoured the opening part of that phrase rather more than the latter! We have formal hall every day, so it's not wine-fuelled insanity! Sorry Slap. Which college is your sister/was your girlfriend at?My sister was at Emmanuel and the girlfriend went to Homerton. I went to a couple of formals at Emmanuel (for my sister's birthday) and they were very messy. The custom is that if you drop a penny in someones wine they have to down it, the whole lot of them loaded their gowns up with pennies and got hammered! Quite amusing for an outsider... although a little strange compared to my university experience. I think that they only had formal once a week so it was a bit of a party!
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Posts: 612 (11/03/09 3:37 PM) Powertrip tripper |
Cool stuff.
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Posts: 3204 (11/03/09 3:51 PM) Purveyor of Filth |
The Twisted Priestess wrote: Hehehe...In my usual annoying American way I will probably still pronounce it in a way that rhymes with Kyuss. I studied Latin in high school...is that a bastardized English pronunciation of the word? I'm not sure...  
Oh and btw...there are rankings of the top universities of the world. The top 5 are; 1. Harvard 2. Cambridge 3. Yale 4. Oxford 5. MIT It seems like New England and "Old" England are well represented... Debauch...Debase...Defile. |
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Posts: 8361 (11/03/09 4:19 PM) Spelling Gestapo |
Well Caius was his name I'm afraid (originally spelt Keys) so it's not to do with accent. The new spelling is Latinised though, yes. Have you read
Shakespeare's the Merry Wives of Windsor? Well Dr. Caius in that is our Dr. Caius.
Homerton? Poor girl. I bet she's a good cyclist. Emma Hall is meant to be very loud; I'm actually going to one in a few weeks (my friend from Sheffield is there), and to one at Peterhouse (the oldest college) as well. I'll report back. And we do have pennying, yes! It occurs more in the Caius Bar than at formal hall though. Jesus wept, Jesus Christ
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Posts: 8362 (11/03/09 4:20 PM) Spelling Gestapo |
What are they doing on the picture, praying before dinner?The Lord's Prayer in Latin. Jesus wept, Jesus Christ
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Posts: 1934 (11/03/09 4:23 PM) soniknaut |
The Twisted Priestess wrote: 
Is upatairs a medieval term then........?
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Posts: 3205 (11/03/09 4:28 PM) Purveyor of Filth |
The Twisted Priestess wrote: Really? HAHAHA...yeah very medieval, cool!! But you haven't lived until you've read "Caesar's Gallic Wars" in Latin...while high as a f'ing kite.
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Posts: 343 (11/04/09 6:16 PM) Stone Fox |
u really have to pray before dinner? how old-fashioned..i like it!
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Posts: 8363 (11/05/09 7:29 AM) Spelling Gestapo |
Is upatairs a medieval term then........?You got me. Well I haven't Lib, so I guess I haven't lived. And considering my Latin is pretty poor (in that I've never studied it, ever) I guess I never will. Hey ho. Well we pray but we don't have to say anything except the Amen. You are all allowed to go in and sit down, and then there's a gong. You have to stand up on the gong and be silent for the Fellows and something the Master as they enter. And then there's another gong and someone reads: "Benedic, Domine, nobis et donis tuis quae ex largitate tua sumus sumpturi; et concede ut, ab iis salubriter enutriti, tibi debitum obsequium praestare valeamus, per Jesum Christum dominum nostrum; mensae caelestis nos participes facias, Rex aeternae gloria." And we all say AMEN and then you can sit down and eat. At the end there's sometimes another gong for when the Fellows leave, and you stand up for that as well. And SLAP, I was talking about it yesterday with some people and apparently Caius invented pennying! There was someone here a few years ago wo did it to Stephen Hawking and got banned from the college. Jesus wept, Jesus Christ
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Posts: 4318 (11/05/09 8:39 AM) Admin |
I studied Latin... don't remember a great deal now except a few verb endings and how to say "piss-head".
Pennying Hawking? Brilliant. Sadly, I am pretty sure that every college reckons that they (or their founder) invented pennying!
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Posts: 4319 (11/05/09 8:42 AM) Admin |
Incidentally, the Latin teacher at my school was Welsh... he was very Welsh in fact! This meant that an entire generation of Reading School Boys learned Latin
with a Welsh accent!
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Posts: 8364 (11/05/09 8:43 AM) Spelling Gestapo |
You know about Emma students' ancient right to throw forks at the guy if he doesn't bow, right?
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Posts: 8365 (11/05/09 8:46 AM) Spelling Gestapo |
Ha, did you have to speak Latin out loud then? I don't think they did that in Latin at my school. I can kind of read it because it's sort of French.
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