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Rise Of The Idiots

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Uncle Urchin Newbie

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How do you get Hornchurch out of Hx?


in the old days of map referencing a church was always denoted with an X....the bus companies used it on their old fashioned scroll signs as hornchurch was to long for them...over the years they dropped the horn and it became Hx...still is to this day..
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How do you get Hornchurch out of Hx?


in the old days of map referencing a church was always denoted with an X....the bus companies used it on their old fashioned scroll signs as hornchurch was to long for them...over the years they dropped the horn and it became Hx...still is to this day..


Pah! That's Unc's revisionist history at work. The 'x' comes from the cross they used to put over the door when towns were infested with bubonic plague. Hx still has it to this day. grin
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How do you get Hornchurch out of Hx?


in the old days of map referencing a church was always denoted with an X....the bus companies used it on their old fashioned scroll signs as hornchurch was to long for them...over the years they dropped the horn and it became Hx...still is to this day..


Pah! That's Unc's revisionist history at work. The 'x' comes from the cross they used to put over the door when towns were infested with bubonic plague. Hx still has it to this day. grin


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The technology might change but the kids don't. I remember when a couple of us stuck the centre spread of "Mayfair" into the folder of this kid who sat up the front under the teacher's nose in English.

 

When the poor boy opened up his folder to unearth the unexpected delights within, the teacher, old Steady Teddy's eyes nearly plopped straight out of his head, not with desire I hasten to add, he was as unashamedly gay as the Scottish Gordons was Steady.

 

Our victim became a Fleet supporter like myself & I sometimes used to watch games with him from in front of the old tea bar next to the main stand. I never did confess to the folder episode, though. After university he moved up to Nottingham, as I found out when I bumped into him decades later at the Huddersfield cup tie a few years back; he was at the championship clincher too, at Bedford that season & both times, on seeing him, a vivid mental picture returned of him slapping shut his folder on a mass of pink flesh in front of Stead's bolting eyes.

 

So, Simon, if you're reading this, yes sorry it was me, but I didn't do it alone. Steve Dace helped me sellotape the pages in & neither of us had the nerve to buy the mag from the newsagents at the top of Denton - that Williams kid with the red hair waltzed in as cool as you like announcing that he needed some reading matter for an elderly relative who was sick.

 

Happy days.

 

 

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Actually the bubonic plague and HX(Hex) look like a good match.

 

What was vendor thinking when he okayed a young urchin buying Mayfair for a sick elderly relative..those photos+old age+illness(heart?)...a rapid demise...inheritance.

 

Teaching at Hay(far western NSW) in the late 80's and there was a young male science teacher, a strong christian, 23 going on 53 if you get my drift.

Used to teach the whole course using an overhead projector.

Creature of habit, the first thing he did when he entered the room was face the students and address them as he rolled down the OHP screen.

Kids had taped multiple Playboy centrefolds to screen.

He turns to the screen, nigh on passes out and then flees the room.

I could hear the kids laughing 50 metres away.

 

Graham...Simon is probably a mess...and is now makes his living as a model for Adult magazines somewhere!

You, Dace and that Williams kid have got a lot to answer for.

 

 

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Originally Posted By: waggamick


What was vendor thinking when he okayed a young urchin buying Mayfair for a sick elderly relative..those photos+old age+illness(heart?)...a rapid demise...inheritance.


Being Grammar school boys seemed to provide a passport to ludicrous levels of public tolerance. I even had a lunchtime pint with Dacey in the Miller's Cottage in uniform on one occasion.

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Teaching at Hay(far western NSW) in the late 80's and there was a young male science teacher, a strong christian, 23 going on 53 if you get my drift.
Used to teach the whole course using an overhead projector.
Creature of habit, the first thing he did when he entered the room was face the students and address them as he rolled down the OHP screen.
Kids had taped multiple Playboy centrefolds to screen.
He turns to the screen, nigh on passes out and then flees the room.
I could hear the kids laughing 50 metres away.


Love it! That's natural selection working at its most effective.

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Graham...Simon is probably a mess...and is now makes his living as a model for Adult magazines somewhere!
You, Dace and that Williams kid have got a lot to answer for.


No making me feel guilty on that one, Mick! Judging by the car he was driving when I saw him at Huddesfield, Simon had done very well for himself. He always was Captain Sensible - more than capable of shrugging off our childish antics.
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Still go for the lunchtime pint?
Big money in those Adult Mag photo shoots!


No chance for a lunchtime pint within the half hour rotating slot regime we have now at work. There's a cafe close enough for an enormous helping of cholesterol & stewed tea though. No doubt some of the boys from Gravesend Grammar still get into The Millers at lunchtime, though. Ironically, I probably would get turned away now, on grounds of age, being a good 3 decades older than their average punter.

As for the money to be made from those photo shoots, is that based on personal experience? I'd probably be paid a small fortune not to appear in their pages if I ever threatened it.
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Originally Posted By: Gravesend_Princess
i can take the old one off but when i go to put a new one on it puts the old one back on......


Have you tried clearing your cache & deleting old cookies, then trying again? Deleting the cookies will log you off the site, incidentally.

I'm no expert, but I often find this approach works for such things.
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Originally Posted By: Chatham Gary
God, we had an eclectic mix of teachers at Gravesend Grammar, didn't we. Graham. Joey Geaton, George Bourne, Cod, Albo, Chris Waller. All as mad as monks.
Lord knows how we got an education!!!


We didn't! That's why we're all barking mad & support the Fleet!
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God, we had an eclectic mix of teachers at Gravesend Grammar, didn't we. Graham. Joey Geaton, George Bourne, Cod, Albo, Chris Waller. All as mad as monks.
Lord knows how we got an education!!!


The school may have a very traditional motto, “Consule Cunctis,”

Did you blokes have to practise saying the school motto?

I can't comment...our motto...Conserve, Preserve, Serve...kids call it The Jam Factory.
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