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John Gray wrote:Which college?
See PM

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Great news, thanks for sharing, which college? what subject?
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StuartR wrote:which college? what subject?
I'll send you a PM with the college. He will read Music.

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Congratulations!!!!!
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Congratulations.

But I didn't know that you had to go to Oxford to read music.

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CONGRATULATIONS!


Definitely a red letter day. Please give all the stucklings my very best and especially congratulate stuckling#2 on his high achievement.

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Gosh...now that is a ruptious applause...
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GeoffW wrote:But I didn't know that you had to go to Oxford to read music.
Apparently it beats studying...

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stuck wrote:
GeoffW wrote:But I didn't know that you had to go to Oxford to read music.
Apparently it beats studying...
And the lecturers rock.
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... Rudi is on a roll.

Just like a hot dog.

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Is THIS Rudi?
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Nah.

That hot dog doesn't have ketchup. It doesn't cut the mustard.

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Mustard have ketchup? That is the wurst kind of advice, Geoff.
Me thinks the sauce of your info is on the bun.
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stuck wrote:Today was THE day, the day the UK Exam Boards release the 'A' Level results, which for the benefit of our non-UK readers are the exams that determine university entrance...

stuckling2 did it, he got the grades he needed. He will got to Oxford University in the autumn

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Rudi wrote:Gosh...now that is a ruptious applause...
Ruptious?

I hope it was a courteous ruptious.

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Courteous Ruptious?
I think you are getting mixed up with Courteous Rupteous who was a Second Lieutenant in Caesars seventh Roman battalion who invaded Normandy.
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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs (C. Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, book 1)
translated by a hapless schoolboy as:
All Gaul is quartered into three halves.
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stuck wrote:I've mentioned in the past that my youngest son seems to have a talent for music.

This last week has seen him reach new highs. First he was told he'd passed the ABRSM Diploma (piano) exam he'd taken earlier in the summer, only two or three few weeks after his 16th birthday.

This morning he received a letter awarding him an organ scholarship at one of the colleges at Oxford University. This means that as long as he gets three A grades in his exams next summer he will be off to study music at Oxford.

I'm just a little bit proud of him.

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I have been away for a few days, I have just seen this, fantastic news, I bet you are still walking around with a puffed chest :cheers:
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steveh wrote:...I have just seen this, fantastic news...
:whisper: are you aware that the bit you quoted from me was originally posted about a year ago? I resurrected the thread when his results were received last week and it was confirmed he'd made the grades.

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Rudi wrote:Courteous Ruptious?
I think you are getting mixed up with Courteous Rupteous who was a Second Lieutenant in Caesars seventh Roman battalion who invaded Normandy.
It was\is a politely held back burp or gaseous emission. :smile:
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