Are you a novel or a poem?

6 comments on “Are you a novel or a poem?”

1. ed says:
   December 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am

   Brings to mind Uncle Monte asking, in “Withnail & I”, “Are you a stone, or a sponge?”

2. Paul Vermeersch says:
   December 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

   I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo.

3. Banjo Banjar says:
   December 12th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

   If I were a magpie, I’d be in a Child Ballad, though I’d go by ‘pie’. I think Cambridge’s question is of a different order than Oxford’s.

4. Basil says:
   December 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

   I am the egg man…coo coo cachoo cachoo coo

5. Owen says:
   December 13th, 2008 at 2:42 am

   It wasn’t that way when I were a lad. We had a proper exam – 3 hours – in the subject we proposed to study. PLUS some stupid questions that I forget – but not THAT stupid. Turned out though that the ‘exam’ was bogus anyway. I passed the exam and then had an ‘interview’ where they wanted to know about extra curricular activities – specifically Rugby (was I good enough and stupid enough to play for the university – despite having passed the exam – the hidden extra credit bit was when they revealed that last year’s captain had broken his neck) and Judo (sorry – only did it for three years) and photography (well maybe – but by then I was pretty pissed off – they had neglected to put a bed in the room they had put me up in overnight and weren’t interested in changing the arrangements to help me. I slept on the floor.)

   So when they didn’t offer me a place I was relieved of the burden of telling them I wouldn’t have gone anyway. I’m pretty sure that the people who dreamed up the questions mentioned were graduates of the institutions involved…

6. Daniel says:
   December 16th, 2008 at 12:44 am

   You know what they say… if you can’t get them to accept you, make them the idiots.

Discuss