The Girtonian
Posted in Sillyness | By tim |
I went to university at Girton College, Cambridge University. Girton is therefore seared into my memory and those of my friends as a wonderful place where we grew up and had a lot of laughs. Since we all left and moved to London (mainly), James Casey produced a regular monthly spoof-newsletter called “The Girtonian”, editions of which were sent by royal mail to each Girtonian and were excitedly waited-for and pored over all over London. As time went on the jokes got a bit too close to the bone and some of the more fragile members of the group began to become a little frustrated at Mr Casey.
One rainy Sunday afternoon I decided to put a shot across his bows and created a spoof of the spoof to suggest that The Girtonian had been taken over by new Management and Mr Casey had been shut down… here’s the evidence.
Whilst it was commended amongst the readership, I’m not sure I’m that proud of this as it had the unintended effect of stopping Mr Casey from continuing his editorship – I guess I had knocked his position. I was genuinely disappointed because I loved the Girtonian.
We received a new episode just before Christmas 2004 so perhaps there is still hope.
August 25th, 2005 at 10:37 am
Just wanted to say hello. Was out with the girls yesterday and Emma mentioned this.
Makes me feel guilty for not seeing more of you recently (not easy when you spend most of your time on the other side of the world) but still probably my fault.
Hope all is well and that (despite recent posts) the move to the States isn’t so imminent we won’t get a chance to catch up properly first.
Hx