Carol Vordeman

[bennynorules]

Is it true that Carol Vordeman has a third class engineering degree from Loughborough University, and is therefore a complete mathematical and scientific genuis?

[jenstar]

I believe she has a third class engineering degree from Cambridge rather than Loughborough (now I think of it, Loughborough probably didn't award degrees back then as it was still a polytechnic.)

[TommyC]

Hmmmm... I understood it was a double-first, form Cambridge, and she did her 'A' levels disgustingly early as well...

[Quizmonster]

Click http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/hallof
fame/showbiz/carol_vorderman.shtml for a BBC website all about the lady. It confirms her Cambridge Third....sometimes called a "Richard" because of Richard the Third, of course! She didn't quite make a Desmond, in other words. The 2/2 degree is so-called from the name of the South African archbishop, Desmond Tutu.

[Merthyr Imp]

I don't quite see how a third class engineering degree would mean anyone is 'THEREFORE a complete mathematical and scientific genius'.

[bennynorules]

Merthyr Imp - did you not appreciate the irony of my original posting? Quizmonster - so what is the slang for a 'first' (which I have and Carol can only dream of)? On the other hand, I am poor and Carol Vordeman is an advertising millionaire. I mean, REALLY, who belives that Benecol is scientifically proven to reduce cholesterol?

[darth vader]

Einstein had no degree and was a patent clerk. You don't need a piece of paper to tell you how clever you are. (I got a third, and i'm doing very nice thankyou very much)

[Quizmonster]

Benny, a First is sometimes referred to as a 'Geoff' on the basis of Geoff Hurst, the hero of England's long-ago World Cup success. Another name for a Third, by the way, is a 'Douglas', based on the name of the politician, Douglas Hurd.