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I think the bonus questions only match the starter questions if it's pictures or music. Otherwise, it's just random.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Has The Pinefox kidnapped Isobel Campbell & is holding her prisoner in his room?

Does this explain his transformation into The Bellefox?

In a way I hope not, because it would affect my impression of his constancy towards Hillary.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

how can you people watch this program?

it is insufferable.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

they asked a question, about deleuze t-shirts, last night.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

q.e.d.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the answer was "fruit of the loom".

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

[cumshot]

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the future is looming.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

This should all be nipped in the bud.

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Cozen, you are wrong, but that's OK.

RJG - I don't believe you!

Mooro: I can't believe how dirty you came to be, there.

Yes, it is Isobel, in my room, in a way. But Hillary is on the wall and on the filing cabinet. I see her more than twice a day.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Stefano Mariani: C/D?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/cathyleech/mariani.jpg

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks like a serial killer. His hand look bout to shank whitey in the armpit.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I love him.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't see that picture, but he's the Oxford chap who knows everything and who is Most Likely To Take Over The World In A Megalomaniacal Stylee, yes? Can't remember the college, sorry.

I see I was called to thread last year. I'll never live down 'frottage'.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, has *anyone* else ever had the chance to say "Frottage" to Paxman on TV? It's not like politicians say it very often.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he's Corpus Christi.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

He was on last night - Balliol maybe? Or was that the opposing team?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

He was Corpus Christi. Need to hear more about this frottage thing, Liz.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks like a vile cross between Heinrich Himmler and Ken C.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

In a hot way!!

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS IS HOW NAZI GERMANY STARTED BY THINKING PEOPLE WERE HOTT

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey hey don't forget Oakley, when they won he FLUNG himself on his fellow team members who frankly looked petrified, in fact, I was petrified that after he got round the team members, he would crawl out of the TV, RING style, to fling himself at ME whilst shouting "YESSSSS!!! I AM A VERY STRANGE MAN WITH A WIERD FAAACE!!! YESSS!!! WE PARTY IN BALLIOL TONIGHT or is it Corpus Christ fvcked if I can remember".

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes, I'd forgotten that!

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

no one is hotter than paxman.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

paxman hott? puke! talk about a squashed danish pastry!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I got all the graves and none of the Strauss, although I did know it was Strauss. I liked Mr Directional Haircut and his beardstroking and his Chandler-loving ways.

Enough speculating about who'll be the next James Bond. Mariani for next villain!

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't help it. i have a strange, burning passion for him.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS IS HOW THE SPANISH INQUISITION STARTED

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS IS HOW ILE STARTED

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

They need a fluffy white cat mascot.

Frottage: correct answer to a question about an artistic technique favoured by Max Ernst. Paxo hoist an eyebrow. I may have blushed slightly.

Is Oakley the odd ginger one on the Corpus team?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

No, he was the odd captain of the Balliol team.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ally and cathy and I got 220 points, last night.

we are thinking of founding a university, next week, so we can qualify for the series, next year.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Directional Haircut claimed to be from Rugby, but I don't recognise him.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, he went to Rugby School, that's why. Toff.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What is it with all the wops on University Challenge this year? It seems every time has one member who ends with an unnecessary vowel.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah bloody eyeties with their vowel-ending names

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm jealous of your name, Marcello - my Venetianness hides behind my final vowel, whereas you are clear a son of La Serenissima in name (and in your fiery passions).

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

K is not a vowel.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Y is arguably a vowel, though

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

what a heart-warming thread! i am glad the missus and i are not alone in our slightly odd penchant for UC. although the rules about *saying the answer out loud* apply here, we haven't gone as far as scoring (points, i mean). perhaps next series.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, did we notice the Smiths fan last week?

Paxman: Spell 'cemetery'
Speccy girl: C-E-M-E-T-R-Y

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I should add my name to the roll call. Lancaster 1998. Went out 425-125 to the Open University, who featured a former 15-to-1 winner, a 15-to-1 finalist, a mastermind semi-finalist and someone who was a genuine lifelong learner. Bloody Harold Wilson.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~oakley/ucteam2.jpg

Apparently they win the series.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Looking at that photo, Sharp just doesn't fit in, does he? Like how you never that bloke out of Fischerspooner being photographed next to Stephen Hawking, or something.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

no one could spell cemetery last week. the things j.p. has to endure.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Bunch of spoffs.

Come back Emily Wotsit.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Grand final!

http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~oakley/ucreport.html

Will Mariani win it?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

100 plays -5!

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, yes, Mariani did rather win it. I am deeply suspicious of people who know that much, but also rather envious. Sharp = Alex Sibley off Big Brother (but with added brains).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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