Eulalia is being very clever!
Cambridge university really was set up after an argument, actually it was about whether the King or the Pope should appoint the Archbishop of Canterbury, but Eulalia chooses to mix it up with the theoretical question 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?', that is, how many angels can be in the same place at the same time. It was supposed to have been discussed by late medieval scholars but these days it is used as an illustration of a pointless theoretical question.
Then she brings in one of Cambridge's greatest, Sir Isaac Newton, in particular his first law of motion: "An object will remain at rest or moving at a constant velocity unless an external force acts upon it."
And then she has a great deal of fun with that traditional annual contest between the two universities, the boat race!
Puns never translate. The short form of 'coxswain' (the person who keeps a rowing team working together) is 'cox', which sounds the same as 'cocks' the plural of 'cock', i.e. penis.
I don't know if that helps or not, TC, but I enjoyed it!!
Cambridge university really was set up after an argument, actually it was about whether the King or the Pope should appoint the Archbishop of Canterbury, but Eulalia chooses to mix it up with the theoretical question 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?', that is, how many angels can be in the same place at the same time. It was supposed to have been discussed by late medieval scholars but these days it is used as an illustration of a pointless theoretical question.
Then she brings in one of Cambridge's greatest, Sir Isaac Newton, in particular his first law of motion: "An object will remain at rest or moving at a constant velocity unless an external force acts upon it."
And then she has a great deal of fun with that traditional annual contest between the two universities, the boat race!
Puns never translate. The short form of 'coxswain' (the person who keeps a rowing team working together) is 'cox', which sounds the same as 'cocks' the plural of 'cock', i.e. penis.
I don't know if that helps or not, TC, but I enjoyed it!!