:11:00
I can't vouch for those times.
:11:03
Taken with the school alarm clock,
most of them.
:11:06
Give or take a second,
they're good enough for me.
:11:10
Have you come across a fellow
called Abrahams? HM Abrahams?
:11:13
He's challenged for the college dash.
:11:15
What's so special about that?
:11:17
In all the 700 years, nobody's ever done it.
:11:20
Right, what do you do?
:11:38
Right, chaps, thank you! Thank you.
:11:42
Let it be known that HM Abrahams
of Gonville and Caius
:11:45
has formally made challenge
for the college dash.
:11:49
You show 'em, Harold!
:11:51
For those not familiar with the rules...
:11:53
The challenger will atempt
to run around the court perimeter,
:11:57
to and from a point beneath the clock,
:11:59
within the time taken
by the clock to strike midday.
:12:02
A distance traditionally
recognised as one of 188 paces.
:12:06
I say, Abrahams, what have you got
on your feet? Rockets?
:12:09
The challenge will commence on the...
:12:11
- Abrahams, you haven't got a chance!
- Do it for Israel!
:12:15
The challenge commences
on the stroke of one.
:12:17
The challenger must finish
before the stroke of 12.
:12:20
Come on, Abrahams, you swank!
:12:23
Will the challenger make himself ready?
:12:32
This Abrahams.
What do you know about him?
:12:35
Repton chap.
:12:37
Jewish.
:12:39
- His father's a financier in the city.
- Financier?
:12:42
What's that supposed to mean, I wonder?
:12:44
I imagine he lends money.
:12:47
Exactly.
:12:49
And what do they say about the son?
:12:51
Academically sound. Arrogant.
:12:54
Defensive to the point of pugnacity.
:12:57
As they invariably are.
:12:59
Yet possessing
a keen sense of duty and loyalty.