Tangfastic
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From 'The Chap' There is, of course, only one university in Britain, and that is Oxford. Many other cities and towns claim that they also have similar establishments, but a true chap would blush from spending three of their formative years in some concrete monstrosity of the Midlands, or the dark satanic mills of the North. One is not to be fooled either by members of the royal family who opt to join the arts-and-craft communities of our Caledonian cousins. Intelligent homosexuals are permitted to attend the University of Cambridge, which offers a variety of courses on espionage leading to worthy careers working for the KGB in mysterious buildings south of the Thames. And: Should the Chap not wish to attend Oxford the only other establishments worth frequenting are the Universities of Heidelberg and Ruritania. At the former one can obtain duelling scars, blood-brotherhood, Palatinate beer and flaxen-haired maidens; at the latter one can wear funny hats, partake in comic-opera revolutions, and end up as Minister of Culture (where one can make statutory the Noonday Absinthe Power Nap). Do not make the mistake of going to the Sorbonne. Instead of sipping a Pastis and swapping bons mots with Henri de Montherlant, one will find oneself ripping up the agreeable cobblestones of the Boul’ Mich’ and lobbing them at blue-chinned riot police â€" scarcely the way a gentleman wishes to spend his education. http://www.thum.org/oxon/archives/000706.html
