Dubious Links

**Ten Euros**

The most tenuous of dubious links is actually used to describe a link that is very tenuous (we are so meta, even this acronym) and was realised on Camping Tour 2013 by Alan Browne and Krista Middleton. It goes as follows:

1. Tenuous

2. Ten Euros

They were very drunk at the time and a two stage link was about all they could manage and now a particularly tenuous link is known as ten euros!

**Touch the Cup Combos**

**Double (Two in a row)**

Michael Dublé, derived from Michael Bublé. Also in common usage as a Michael or a Dublé.

**Triple (Three in a row)**

Triple, or Tripoli as it is also known, gives rise to the following link:

1. Tripoli
2. Colonel Gaddafi (or Gaddafi)
3. Colonel Sanders (or The Colonel)
4. Finger lickin' good (KFC link)

Any of the above, and permutations of the above, can be used to describe a triple.

**Quadruple (Four in a row)**

Now this one is a link!

1. Felipe Quadroponé (ten euros name-bludgeoning of the Argentine rugby player Felipe Contepomi)
2. Prince Phillip
3. Prince
4. Purple Rain
5. Deep Purple
6. Deep Heat
7. Miami Heat
8. LeBron James
9. Le Bronze Age
10. Sage (ten eurosously)
11. Confucius

A quadruple can be called any of the previously mentioned links, and it is very common to hear the phrase "I'm getting pretty Confucius right now!" shouted when someone hits four in a row. The phrase and accompanying links were coined by Tom Ripley, and bought in to common usage in term 2 of the 2011/2012 year.

**Table**

Alas 'tis a short one:

1.Bouncy

2.Springy

3.Jerry Springer Show

4.Jerry

**Miscellaneous, Extraneous and Spontaneous Linkages**

**The Origin of Corkscrew**

Many claim that the following sequence of logical leaps is the true origin for the blossoming legend of the Corkscrew. However, these people are wrong. It's blindingly obvious why the man is called Corkscrew.

1. Leigh
2. Surely
3. Surely not
4. I can't believe it
5. I can't believe it's not butter
6. Butter knife
7. The Subtle Knife
8. Philip Pullman
9. Phillips Screwdriver
10. Screw
11. Corkscrew

Seriously, though. This is purely coincidental and should not, under any circumstances, be thought of as the origin of the name.

**Surf —> Spitroast**

No-one knows why. Is it acceptable? Probably not. Dreamt up mid-spoon in the depths of Leamingtour 2012/13, Sam Mason and Julian Regan somehow managed to spit*ball* all the way to spit*roast*

1. Surf
2. Surfboard
3. Bored
4. Uninterested
5. Interest rates
6. Global economic downturn
7. Recession
8. Receding hair line
9. Rich Powe
10. Deep powe
11. Deep pan pizza
12. Pan-Asian Cuisine
13. Cosmo
14. Cosmo March
15. Warwick Snow
16. Christmas Tour '11
17. Sebastian Twahtt
18. Twat
19. Flat (€10)
20. Flat-pack table
21. Tabernacle
22. Knuckle
23. Buckle
24. Belt Buckle
25. Conveyor Belt
26. Convey
27. Imply
28. Plywood
29. Ali Wood
30. Alys Cooke
31. Dinner
32. Roast Dinner
33. Spit roast

This has absolutely no practical use but is documented here for your bemusement/amusement, or perhaps as an encouragement for you to form your own lexical ladder.

**CATS**

During a session on Floor 5 (A.K.A. Flo5, FloorFiveLive, #FFL) Ben Bostock and Harvey Francis decided that the word 'CATS' wasn't a good enough word to describe how much a degree module is worth and so consequently filled a white board with dubious links. It is wonderful and luckily there is photographic evidence of the event (see below). They even managed to link CATS to CATS - the old circular link!