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

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

Just had to add more...

11. It's conceived as geeky rather than weird to speak Elvish.
12. If you're walking *to* the Sidgwick Site from King's, it's shorter to go up West Road, but if you're going the other way Silver Street is shorter.
13. It's always really hot nd blisteringly sunny *or* absolutely freezing and possibly snowy, but never anything in between.
14. It's more difficult trying to stay on at the university (where you already know everyone and they're aware of your intellectual merit) than it is to get in.

[naath.livejournal.com]

The distance thing is probably the slope and the wind...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

True. I'm going to have to do a version B with all the added ideas.

On the other hand, I'm unsure how space/time distortion makes Elvish less weird. Perhaps its a critical mass of geeks.