The Boat Race - Popular Culture

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Boat race became such a popular phrase that it was incorporated into Cockney rhyming slang, for "face".

In the stories of P. G. Wodehouse, Boat Race Night is often alluded to as a time of riotous celebration, which frequently sees the participants in trouble with the authorities. Bertie Wooster mentions several times that he was fined ten pounds for stealing a policeman's helmet on Boat Race Night. The beginning of first episode of the Jeeves and Wooster television series shows his court appearance on this occasion.

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