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Wooden Speech - Having The Last Word ?

Posted by Doug Langmead on April 16, 2001

In Reply to: Wooden Spoon Award posted by Doug Langmead on April 13, 2001

To those who responded, thanks for the information. At our squash league presentation night, the best theory was that at the victory feast, the winners went to the stewpot first, and by the time the losers got their turn, all that was left was the wooden spoon. Not a bad alternative, but who's to argue with Cambridge ?

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