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Corpus Christi Trimble Victorious and her team the toast of the nation today and deservedly so after snatching the University Challenge trophy last night from what looked like the jaws of defeat and a very strong Manchester team.
Suddenly the Trimbleites came storming through to take the lead with a starter question I'm a bit vague about now but along the lines of how many buckets will be filled in three weeks by so much rain falling at such and such a rate if  the bucket was £1.99 in B&Q and the raindrops are medium-sized in accordance with European legislation...well something like that. Manchester got it wrong, the Corpus Christi chap on the end had meanwhile been frantically and quietly computing digitally albeit on his fingers and came up with the correct answer of eight and they were away.
There was much nervous tricoteusing going on here to help me cope with the stress of it all and some fascinating debate in the press today about how we pay millions to people for acting stupid whilst the likes of Gail Trimble are pilloried for being clever (and apparently some of it has been very nasty)
What a strange old world I'm getting older in.