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Rise Of The Idiots

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I'm finding the whole reunion thread interesting. It's a completely foreign concept to me because we moved so often. (I went to four different elementary schools and three different high schools.) The idea of having life-long friends from childhood baffles me.


Who said anything about friends?

Just because a few of us attended the same school thirty years ago doesn't mean that we are friends, it just means that when we argue about what formation Liam should play there's a fair chance that the post will be punctuated. smile


What House were you in?
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I'm finding the whole reunion thread interesting. It's a completely foreign concept to me because we moved so often. (I went to four different elementary schools and three different high schools.) The idea of having life-long friends from childhood baffles me.


Who said anything about friends?

Just because a few of us attended the same school thirty years ago doesn't mean that we are friends, it just means that when we argue about what formation Liam should play there's a fair chance that the post will be punctuated. smile


What House were you in?


I was in Town.

Roy Cooke was head while I was there and Cod Walker retired after 984 consecutive years of trying to catch boys talking in assembly by leaving the room, counting to five and poking his head back through the doorway to surprise us.



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Town also. I understand that Roy Cooke and H P Arnold-Craft passed away in recent years. From a 2007 post on friendsreunited it seems that Alwyn "Butch" "Handstanding" Bowen is alive and well in NZ.

 

A more recent alumni I met 2 years ago, claims that someone daubed "Chisel is a ****" on the wall of the woodwork block. In attempt to track down the guilty party headmaster Sandy had all boys write "Chisel is a ****" on paper and analyse the results for a likness to what must have looked an amusing display. Is this true or apocryphal, does anyone here know?

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While I was there the wall was daubed with 'Chisel is a pig', rather basic but to the point and much more interestingly 'City and Guilds is that all?'.

 

Cooke was still headmaster then and I didn't hear of any investigations to track down the guilty party.

 

Chisel was also fairly apoplectic one November the fifth when the pupils that paraded an effigy of him around the school before hanging it in the quadrangle and burning it got away scot free.

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I find it fascinating, that a thread entitled, "Rise of the Idiots", turned into a Grammar School reunion! whistle laugh


Presumably you are not from that establishment, else you would not find the connection so fascinating! smirk
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I was in Cliffe, too, at a time when we were so crap sportswise that when Mac, our Head of House asked me, as captain, after the swimming gala how we had got on & I told him we had won, he thought I was taking the p*ss. We were [****!!****] at everything else but we could perform in the water.

 

Chisel was my form tutor for 2 years after 1 year spent with Mac, all 3 in the rooms above the separate block above the workshops. Now is it my imagination or was Paul Greengrass, of United 93 & the Bourne films also with us at least for 2 or 3 years? His biogs always refer to him coming from Surrey, but an article in the Distorter a few years back tied him to Gravesend & I am certain I remember the little bespectacled shock haired bugger fighting every break time with another kid (Jason Riddick?) on the landing of that block. It was do or die stuff; on one occasion they were only just held back from plunging over the bannister & down the drop of the stairwell. He wasn't in my form, but was in my year, if I'm remembering correctly (started Sept 1966.)

 

Arnie Craft came to my house once. I was a 1st year & he'd been going on in assembly about providing a tropical fish tank for some old people's home. My fish were sh*gging themselves senseless & producing fry by the score at the time, so I waylaid him in the corridor & asked him if he wanted some for the old geezers. Next thing I know, he's at my front door. He was like a cross between Larry Olivier & Lord Mountbatten. I thought my mum was going to split her sides at the sight of him walking out carrying umpteen guppies, platties, swordtails & God knows what in a plastic bag wrapped in newspaper, like so much fish & chips.

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Just spotted a seafood restaurant in London (near Tower Hill) called FishCraft.


Thats some pretty impressive binoculars you have there in Wagga Wagga Mick.


I live on a hill with a Northerly aspect and if i get up on the roof........ bigshock
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