Porterhouse Blue
by Tom Sharpe · first published 1920
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on “The Great British Reading List” ↗Sounds like an american version of the novel Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porterhouse_Blue
on “UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board” ↗Reminds me of Porterhouse Blue, the 1970s satirical novel about life in the fictitious Porterhouse college at Cambridge, where swans were served at massive feasts and "porterhouse blue" became another name for a stroke caused by excessive…
on “We don't eat swans” ↗