Talk:Reality Checkpoint

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GA removed, no ref, not encyclopedically written, misses on loads of account. Lincher 18:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

This page is fiction and should be deleted. The lamp post is not known by this name. Someone scratching words on a lamp postis evidence of nothing.

In fact, the lamp post is referred to as the reality checkpoint. But I agree that the article needs sourcing. Bluap 15:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I can also confirm the lamp post is called this and I have been aware of the inscription on it since about 1979. Ben Finn 23:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

(Sorry, can't be bothered digging my old login details out...) Reality Checkpoint is one of those Cambridge place names, like Four Lamps and Mitcham's Corner, you won't find on any official map but is widely known amongst the local population. Any local taxi driver would be able to take you there (well, close to it as it's in the middle of a park.) It definitely predates my 14 years in the area. I'd be very surprised if it hadn't had some serious work written about it, however it has made it into print at least once: [1]. The Beeb have mentioned it too: [2] Just another bit of local folklore... do something once round here and the porters clean up after you. Do it twice and it's tradition. --db

I learned of 'Reality Checkpoint' in the application literature for new undergraduates I received before coming up to Cambridge around 1976. It had a very nice black and white photo of the graffiti scratched into the black-paint. Can't remember the publication. Madir 10:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)