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This prestigious award was given for representing the [[Unseen University]] at a high-level sporting event. Both [[Mustrum Ridcully]] and the previous [[Dean]] were awarded Browns for Rowing in their younger days. As the river [[Ankh (river)|Ankh]] is no limpid sweet-flowing Isis, the award of a Brown to members of the university's boating team is ''entirely'' appropriate. | This prestigious award was given for representing the [[Unseen University]] at a high-level sporting event. Both [[Mustrum Ridcully]] and the previous [[Dean]] were awarded Browns for Rowing in their younger days. As the river [[Ankh (river)|Ankh]] is no limpid sweet-flowing Isis, the award of a Brown to members of the university's boating team is ''entirely'' appropriate. | ||
Actually, the | Actually, the [[Boat Race]] itself is a running race across the crust of the Ankh ''carrying'' the boat... | ||
The Ankh being what it is, the boots generally corrode rather badly, another reason for their brown-ness... | The Ankh being what it is, the boots generally corrode rather badly, another reason for their brown-ness... | ||
Revision as of 22:37, 7 November 2015
This prestigious award was given for representing the Unseen University at a high-level sporting event. Both Mustrum Ridcully and the previous Dean were awarded Browns for Rowing in their younger days. As the river Ankh is no limpid sweet-flowing Isis, the award of a Brown to members of the university's boating team is entirely appropriate.
Actually, the Boat Race itself is a running race across the crust of the Ankh carrying the boat...
The Ankh being what it is, the boots generally corrode rather badly, another reason for their brown-ness...
Ridcully still displays a pair of mouldering brown boots on the walls of his study in recognition of his meritorious holding of a Brown.
Annotation
A parody of the "Blues" awarded at British and Australian Universities on Roundworld. A Blue is an award earned by sportsmen and women at a university for competition at the highest level. The awarding of Blues began at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the late 1830s.