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helpmejeeves

.03 [Video]

Mar 21, 2011 13:12

Did some eventful event happen this weekend? This ship looks like the streets of Oxford after a particularly lively Boat Race Night.

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thegooddrjones March 21 2011, 22:08:11 UTC

I didn't realize that Oxford went that nuts when they won.

helpmejeeves March 22 2011, 02:54:11 UTC

Not the whole town. [Thoughtful frown as he adds quietly.] Actually, the townsfolk themselves usually seemed quite pipped at the whole affair. [Then louder.] But for exuberant young gentlemen, Boat Race Night was an important part of the Oxford educational experience. All sorts of important things a fellow can learn, like the special trick of the wrist that is essential for separating a helmet from his policeman.

thegooddrjones March 22 2011, 04:34:53 UTC

I didn't realize it was essential.

fanged_aleera March 22 2011, 01:27:43 UTC

I do not know, Sir... It is a mystery to me, but another has spoken of winning things.

Perhaps there was a party?

helpmejeeves March 22 2011, 02:55:30 UTC

If there was it seems to have been a rum one. Everyone's a bit down in the dumps, and not in the pleasantly sozzled the night before way, either.

fanged_aleera March 22 2011, 03:08:44 UTC

'Sozzled'... Is this to do with what she had won?

helpmejeeves March 22 2011, 03:28:51 UTC

[puzzled frown]

I don't think so. I don't think one typically wins anything for becoming stewed to the gills beyond a headache the next morning.

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