How not to start the day

[chickenfeet]

I woke up with a persistent earworm of the Terence and Philip song and it's snowing. I think I should just cancel today.

I also realised that I know people who teach at the Universities of Victoria and Waterloo. Are there any other universities named after London railway termini?

Comments

[radinden]

Not that I can think of. We of course had a Victoria University here until not all that long ago. I suppose there's City University, as City Thameslink counts as a London terminus for ticketing purposes.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

You're inspiring me with the desire to found the University of Fenchurch Street.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I was thinking Paddington U in Lima, Peru of course. And then I'm sure King's Cross University in Sydney weould be able to find appropriate academic posts for oursin and misia.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

I think I saw on the Internet that degrees can be obtained by mail order from the International University of Marylebone on payment of a certain consideration.

[lnr]

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/weather/weathergraphs-html.cgi?today

sorry :-)

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Oh! Aren't Radcliffe, Vassar, et al. the Seven Sisters?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

That's really a stretch. Seven Sisters is a tube stop on the Victoria Line. For all I know there may be a University of Chipping Ongar or Clapham Common but they hardly count as railway termini.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Oh -- I missed the 'Railway Termini' part and just thought of the tube (although strangely, when I think of Victoria, it is the railway station I see in my mind's eye). Possibly because I've only ever taken trains from Victoria, Eustace, and St. Pancras.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Eustace?

That is definitely where Ernest should have been found!