<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Jailer:
P.S. Academics originally quit Oxford (shudder, what an industrial wasteland) and trekked to lovely fens of East Anglia because they were unwilling to submit to the Oxfordian code of sexual abstinence.
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As soon as hoi polloi left the Dreaming Spires for the, ahem, "fens", the fun started; Oxford was just waiting for the riff-raff to clear out.
Although, in fairness, I admit not all Cantabrigians are completely irredeemable. I do recall meeting one somewhere...