Librarians Beat Statisticians

The Oxford Mail and Oxford University have the story about a team of Bodleain Librarians winning a Jeopardy-like competition (University Challenge) against the Royal Statisticians in a competition on BBC2. Hurray!

August 4, 2006 by Uncategorized 5

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5 Responses

  1. Anonymous Patron says:
    August 5, 2006 at 2:01 am

    Oh I see
    Jeopardy like competition. Got it.

    From the headline, I thought baseball bats, chains, and switchblades were involved.

    Then I read it again.

    Then I thought, Librarians v. Statisticians… Now I wish that ball bats, chains, and blades were involved. I still say that you’d never want to pick a fight with a public librarian. They got things under the desk that are better left unknown.

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  2. Curmudgeony says:
    August 5, 2006 at 9:13 pm

    Re:Oh I see
    They got things under the desk that are better left unknown…

    Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

    …but perhaps I’ve said too much.

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  3. mdoneil says:
    August 6, 2006 at 12:59 am

    Re:Oh I see
    I spent 10 minutes with my Irish -> English dictionary trying to read that and it seems your herring have the croup.

    Have you tried a humidifier?

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  4. sarahmae says:
    August 7, 2006 at 8:36 am

    Re:Oh I see
    In Lovecraft’s fiction, R’lyeh is sometimes referred to in the ritualistic phrase “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”, which roughly translates to “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”

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  5. sarahmae says:
    August 8, 2006 at 8:08 am

    I forgot….
    you don’t consider Wikipedia to be reliable 🙂

    Here is a different source

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