Morrus Goes Boating in Oxford

Re: The Other Place

Chris_Nightwing said:

Bah. As a student of Cambridge I must express distaste at your visit to the Other Place. You should come to Cambridge instead.

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We're planning on it!

Interesting how those in Oxford refer to Cambridge as "The Other Place" in just the same way that you referred to Oxford!

ColonelHardisson said:

Sorry to be pedantic, but there were native people here on our continent way before that, who built some impressive structures in their own right.

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Not to encourage additional pedantry, but what structures in North America would those be?

Macchu Picu, Mesa Verde, the Mayan Pyramids ...

Wulf Ratbane said:

Not to encourage additional pedantry, but what structures in North America would those be?

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serpent mound, along with many other mounds requiring possibly thousands of workers comes to mind.

and the pueblo cliff dwellings, awesome in their structure and location.

not to mention some of the other impressively huge southwestern structures that housed cities of as many as 10,000- in the midst of a desert, all in one rambling structure.

a quarter mile long, and beautiful

Mmmm... yeahhhh... Mayan and Aztec construction, no problem.

But a mound of dirt, however long, doth not a structure make.

Wulf Ratbane said:

Mmmm... yeahhhh... Mayan and Aztec construction, no problem.

But a mound of dirt, however long, doth not a structure make.

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i will spare quoting them for everyone, but i just read the definition of structure from 6 dictionaries, and they all agrre with me, so unless you want to make up definitions for words all your own, at which point there is no point in having a conversation, yes, it is a structure.

Careful Wulf. I think Clay is kind of sensitive about the dirt. Something about them being cousins.


Edit: To keep it on topic. Great looking pictures!

Ok, fair enough. Perhaps I should have said... an edifice?

I just don't get the same vibe off the Serpent Mound as I would from an aztec ziggurat as I would from an abbey that's been standing for 1000 years... There's a difference among all those "structures."

Seriously, I'm not dissing our native peoples. I've just been always rather more impressed that they *didn't* clutter the land with structures-- err, edifices. What have you.

My best friend was married in a small chapel in Queen's College about a year ago,(both she and her husband were teaching there at the time), and it was a wonderful experience, and a great inspiration visually.

To sit in varnished wood pews hundreds of years old, to see a capstone in the Chapel inscribed with a date from the 1100's, to wander around a green courtyard with medieval statuary depicting the college's origins as a seminary, let me say it was a very rich experience.

I was blown away by the fact that the different College's at Oxford have Head Porter and other medieveal titles positions, give a sense of history that just doesnt exist in the United State,(especially out here on the left coast where I live).

"Punting" on the canals of Oxford was very enjoyable. I wish I wasnt moving or I would scan some of the Photos I have.