Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!tcdcs!cbuckley From: cbuckley@cs.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley) Subject: Re: Global alert for all - Cambridge is coming soon! Message-ID: <1994Feb24.095553.21624@cs.tcd.ie> Organization: Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin References: <2ju8ts$im2@hippo.shef.ac.uk> <1994Feb23.233126.29624@black.ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 09:55:53 GMT Lines: 34 > == tr95006@black.ox.ac.uk (Chris Owen) >> == djsd100@hermes.cam.ac.uk (D.J.S. Damerell) >>Bzzt! Wrong! Trinity College is the centre of the universe. We're not >>arrrogant, King's is arrogant, we're just superior. :-) > Gerroff! It's just a pale shadow of the Only True Trinity College - >Trinity College, Oxford (holy horns!). We're the Original And Best (TM) >while you swamp-dwellers are just flogging an inferior imitation... Yer *both* wrong! The one and only Real True Honest-to-Goodness Trinity College is Trinity College, Dublin. *AND* we don't have to share our university with anyone else. (see http://www.tcd.ie/ for more details) Just because we're only four hundred years old doesn't mean we're not the Original and Best! Now, why do all three royal universities have a Trinity College? Is this one of the great Mysteries, or is there a perfectly mundane explanation? Are there constituent colleges within the Unseen University, mewonders? I can just see the annual Quirm College versus Hippo College tiddlywinks match, at which all competitors and spectators must wear red bow-ties and long, pointed shoes. -- Colm Buckley Colm.Buckley@cs.tcd.ie +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+ | Image Synthesis Group, | "My program doesn't work." | | Department of Computer Science, | "You forgot the semicolon." | | Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. | "But..." | | Phone : +353 1 702 1436 | "Line 376. Check." | +-----------------------------------------+ "But..." | | All the usual disclaimers apply. | "Trust me." | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+