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[altariel]

"Kirk and Spock" was just the answer to a question on University Challenge. To a question about slash.

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[katlinel.livejournal.com]

"57 academics just punched the air."

:-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*snort!*

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Did you get the answer right, btw? ;-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I struggled to it slightly more quickly than they did. Even if we know there's only one true Trek pairing. Kirk and Spock are just two men on a deck.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Yesssss!

:-)

Though I was more than a little disturbed this afternoon when the results of a search (I wish I could remember what for!) placed Jeremy Paxman uncomfortably close to the word 'sex'. Brrr.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha!

[narie.livejournal.com]

Did they get it right?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Only by process of elimination (they were given Star Trek in the question).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Eew and, indeed, yuk!

[narie.livejournal.com]

Ah, for shame, for shame. What was the question itself, then?

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I note that it was a male on the Oxford team who gave the answer (what do they teach them at Uni these days?)

The question started with a description of science fiction fanzines - somehow I didn't expect it to end with slash (silly me).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, I can't remember it word for word. They said it was a "controversial", I remember that, and then said something about it being about sex, and deriving its name from expressions like K/S, referring to which two Star Trek characters. Something like that.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I was sure one of the young women was going to answer, but they're clearly not getting the right supervisors.

When they mentioned fanzines, I thought, "Aye aye, is this about fanfiction, or are they going to go all the way?"

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I was just going to blog about it. The poor young man was rather embarrassed to admit he knew the answer.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Word.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I wonder if his mum reads it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Excellent icon!

[dberry.livejournal.com]

I was walking through the living room at the time, answered it correctly, and was subjected to a couple of awkward follow-up questions from my mother.

=|

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oopsie!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to imagine Jeremy Paxman talking about slash. No success so far.

[narie.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's actually pretty impressive, both on University Challenge and the contestant's part.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

*g*. My mum actually emailed me to tell me that, along with that one of the contestants was the obnoxious younger brother of a girl I was briefly best friends with when I was 12. Did anybody know the answer?

[klose.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I missed that bit - damn! I tuned out after seeing them flounder at a question about Singapore's first Prime Minister. :P

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

ZOMG! Heehee :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D