[=SDC=] Q19 Benoised
Adrian Bailey
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Jacqui
Adrian Bailey wrote:
> Where is this?
> http://www.geocities.com/dadge.geo/where.jpg
It *could* be mediaeval Oxford. Hmmmm. More squinting required to be
sure.
Jac
Jacqui
Jacqui wrote:
Ok, I'm fairly sure it is. Rotate it right to align it with modern
maps, and that's St Giles on the left, St Clements up at the top, the
castle mound at the centre bottom, and rivers in roughly the right
places.
Jac
Django Cat
Based purely on Googling your subject line (and there look to be a fair
number of rivers), St Petersburg?
DC
Wood Avens
I think so, too. That's Osney Abbey, for one thing. It's cunningly
upside down, just to fox us.
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Jacqui
Wood Avens wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2006 06:56:49 -0700, "Jacqui" <bopee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Adrian Bailey wrote:
> >
> >> Where is this?
> >> http://www.geocities.com/dadge.geo/where.jpg
> >
> >It *could* be mediaeval Oxford. Hmmmm. More squinting required to be
> >sure.
>
> I think so, too. That's Osney Abbey, for one thing. It's cunningly
> upside down, just to fox us.
Not for long, though. :-)
http://starbright.dyndns.org/jac/oxfordaue.jpg
Jac
Mike Lyle
Nice work, chaps! Now then, the slugline. "Benoised" referring to
bells, as in "summoned by"?
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Mike.
LFS
Well, there you are. I glanced at the map at 14.50, thought to myself
"That looks strangely familiar", went to make a cup of tea, realised
where it was, came back and Bob's your uncle, Jacqui's there already.
Still, maybe she'll lend me her prize...
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Laura
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Jacqui
Mike Lyle wrote:
> Nice work, chaps! Now then, the slugline. "Benoised" referring to
> bells, as in "summoned by"?
I was thinking it just referred to a deliberately 'noisy' pic (it's a
lot easier to see if you do something like this:
http://starbright.dyndns.org/jac/oxfordaue2.jpg to it).
Jac
Jacqui
LFS wrote:
>
> Well, there you are. I glanced at the map at 14.50, thought to myself
> "That looks strangely familiar", went to make a cup of tea, realised
> where it was, came back and Bob's your uncle, Jacqui's there already.
> Still, maybe she'll lend me her prize...
I can bring some sheep roun' to nibble yer lawns, no problem missus.
An' a wiper for any tables wot need cleanin'. ('e might even read ter
yer about trolls an' tigers.)
We 'ad a gen-oo-ine rag'n'bone man come roun' earlier, an' 'e's put me
all of a fluster.
Jac
Wood Avens
A hitherto-unappreciated advantage of a laptop is that one can simply
open it out flat and turn it round.
the Omrud
> On 4 Sep 2006 07:14:58 -0700, "Jacqui" <bopee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Wood Avens wrote:
> >
> >> On 4 Sep 2006 06:56:49 -0700, "Jacqui" <bopee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> >It *could* be mediaeval Oxford. Hmmmm. More squinting required to be
> >> >sure.
> >>
> >> I think so, too. That's Osney Abbey, for one thing. It's cunningly
> >> upside down, just to fox us.
> >
> >Not for long, though. :-)
> >
> >http://starbright.dyndns.org/jac/oxfordaue.jpg
>
> A hitherto-unappreciated advantage of a laptop is that one can simply
> open it out flat and turn it round.
If you have ATI drivers, you can electronically flip the display (or
rotate by 90 or -90 degrees).
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tinwhistler
Looks like Carcassonne, the medieval walled town in south central
France.
tinwhistler
Should have turned the map that Jacqui found upside down -- clearly
Oxford.
Mike Lyle
But stubborn silence from the Judges' Bench. Hmm...maybe Oxford is just
a clue. Perhaps we should look harder at "Benoised".
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Mike.
tinwhistler
Mike Lyle wrote:
> But stubborn silence from the Judges' Bench. Hmm...maybe Oxford is just
> a clue. Perhaps we should look harder at "Benoised".
I tried to see if Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has any reputation
as a "party school" (ie, a noisy place). While it's undoubtedly
noisier than Oxford, UK, and thus to some extent "benoised," I can't
associate a high noise level with the place.
rzed
news:1157395802....@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
How about Oxford, Mississippi, home of Ole Miss? Something of a
party school, I think.
But maybe "Benoised" is being parsed incorrectly? Did someone
named Benois have a hand in the architecture of Oxford?
Or is this a reference to the application of Beano? A Beano-ised
fortification ... nah, I guess not.
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rzed
Jacqui
> Wood Avens wrote:
> > I think so, too. That's Osney Abbey, for one thing. It's cunningly
> > upside down, just to fox us.
>
> Not for long, though. :-)
>
> http://starbright.dyndns.org/jac/oxfordaue.jpg
The annoying smudge where Christ Church should be is St Frideswide's
Priory, which dates this map to before 1522, anyway.
I can find no evidence that this isn't supposed to be the real Oxford -
it's not Philip Pullman's Oxford, for a start. The map in 'Lyra's
Oxford' doesn't tally.
Jac
rzed
news:1157396618.0...@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
This one looks quite similar to the contest version:
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/boris/guides/maps/jsoxf.jpg
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rzed
Adrian Bailey
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Thank you!
Adrian
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tinwhistler
rzed wrote:
> How about Oxford, Mississippi, home of Ole Miss? Something of a
> party school, I think.
>
The Princeton Review ranks Ole Miss 7th in its list of party schools,
so I really like your suggestion; webpage:
7. University of Mississippi (University, Mississippi [ed: actually
Oxford, MS])
Students tell us that Ole Miss is "a huge party school." The Greeks,
who claim one-third of the student body, are integral to the action:
"On game nights, fraternities have big parties at their houses." You
should know that "people either really like Ole Miss or really hate Ole
Miss. It is a Greek-oriented school, and if you aren't that type of
person, or an athlete, you probably won't like the school."
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/college/default.aspx?Article=partyheartyschools
tinwhistler
Oxford Airport -- in July 2006, an effort was made to reduce noise
there; see:
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www.oxfordairport.co.uk/home/noise_comparison.pdf - Similar pages
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