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   From: tims_new_home@yahoo.com   
      
   "The Todal"  wrote in message   
   news:eeq7n5Ft3l1U1@mid.individual.net...   
   > On 24/01/2017 21:50, kat wrote:   
   >> On 24/01/2017 12:33, tim... wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> "The Todal"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> To be fair, I think Theresa May relied on advice from her Attorney   
   >>>> General and from the team of government lawyers at the Treasury. I   
   >>>> don't suppose she knows any law at all. I'm not sure what her   
   >>>> specialist subject is - maybe the fauna and flora of the Swiss Alps.   
   >>>   
   >>> a 2 something (presumably 2 otherwise it would have said 2-1) in   
   >>> Geography   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Oxford had 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th degrees ( which later became 1st, 2-1,   
   >> 2-2, and 3rd) until sometime in the 70s, I believe, possibly later than   
   >> when she graduated. So maybe that 2 is just that.   
   >>   
   >   
   > When Theresa and I were at Oxford, there were no such things as 2:1   
   > degrees. You got a 1st, 2nd or 3rd. A 2nd from Oxford is no mean feat.   
      
   Oh I didn't say otherwise   
      
   I have conceded in the past (elsewhere) that a certain other regular's 3rd   
   from Cambridge is worth more than my 2-1 from Mickey Mouse University.   
      
   tim   
      
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