Quotations, Memes and Jokes - Top 10 things showing Cambridge is seriously weird space/time vortex

[jack]

1. 300m is a long way
   
2. 10am is early.
   
3. Four years is an eternity.
   
4. Sundry Lovecraftian beasts roaming CUWOCS.
   
5. It's possible for no route between two points to be the shortest¹.
   
6. Whenever I start, and where-ever I'm going, and however fast I go, I'm 5 min late.
   
7. No-one can leave.
   
8. Someone invented differential manifolds.
   
9. Trinity Street, Bridge Street, and All Saints Passage each meet at right angles, but form a triangle.
   
10. I saw a bus going to March.

[1] Even when there a finite number of routes. If you allow the possibility of an infinite number of routes I *think* compactness is the criteria that makes it absurd, but I'm not sure. Comments?

Comments

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Trinity Street, Bridge Street, and All Saints Passage each meet at right angles, but form a triangle.

This is because the earth is a sphere :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It would have to be a *little* sphere. That would explain why you can't get out of cambridge.

But you'd be able to *see* it :)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

:-)

BTW, who is sonic drift? I'm quite happy to friend them back if I have a clue who they are ..