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Jim Garten 
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 Posted: August 29 2007 at 12:17 |
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Or a practical chemistry experiment on the production of gaseous hydrocarbons?
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Jared
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 10:49 |
^^^ couldn't you have said you'd been sampling real ale as part of a project on local produce and biodiversity??? 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Neil
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Posted: August 28 2007 at 16:38 |
 Geck0 wrote:
There were lots of Prefects. All we did was occasionally get out of classes and sit at the reception desk to greet visitors. Then at lunchtimes I used to stand in the corridor looking for snotty-nosed Year 7s (or any other years) who were wearing trainers, running, being mischievous, had those annoyingly short ties (everyone had those, even the brainiacs... I didn't!) or had their shirts untucked.
I felt really important... in hindsight, I was just a tool. Brilliant!
They gave the Prefect rights to a lot of idiots... including me! There were some Prefects who had different ties as well, I'm not actually sure why that was... maybe they were Head Prefects. Again, some idiots had those too.
Where's the justice in the world?
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My mate and I were the first prefects in our school to get detention  . Got caught in a pub at lunchtime by the head of maths  . We thought we'd been so clever too having driven to a small village some miles away. 
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 28 2007 at 07:12 |
Well there's an interesting theory of its origins...  Must admit I've not heard that before, but I sooooo hope it's true 
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Tapfret
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Posted: August 27 2007 at 17:11 |
The-Bullet wrote:
Why does my teenage son and all his gormless mates walk around town with their  ing trousers so low that their crotch is down by the ing ankles. This must be the most ridiculous, idiotic fashion trend in the whole of human history  . Bring back the birch  |
Perhaps if you explain the prison origin of the saggy pant thug look it will put him off the desire to wear them. When a more dominant inmate owns a fellow inmate, he has him let his pants sag to let other inmates know that he is for sale to the highest bidder. I don't have to explain what kind of activity the sale is for. 
When it made it to the street as a 'cool' fashion statement is beyond me.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 14:22 |
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There were lots of Prefects. All we did was occasionally get out of classes and sit at the reception desk to greet visitors. Then at lunchtimes I used to stand in the corridor looking for snotty-nosed Year 7s (or any other years) who were wearing trainers, running, being mischievous, had those annoyingly short ties (everyone had those, even the brainiacs... I didn't!) or had their shirts untucked.
I felt really important... in hindsight, I was just a tool. Brilliant!
They gave the Prefect rights to a lot of idiots... including me! There were some Prefects who had different ties as well, I'm not actually sure why that was... maybe they were Head Prefects. Again, some idiots had those too.
Where's the justice in the world?
Edited by Geck0 - August 24 2007 at 14:23
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Jared
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 13:03 |
Peter wrote:
^ I was a fair, but cruel head prefect.... |
I can't see anything wrong with that, provided you were totally egalitarian, Peter, and gave everyone the opportunity of a good kicking in equal measure.... 
Edited by fandango - August 24 2007 at 13:04
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Wilcey
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 12:37 |
Ah....... I was almost 17 at the end of my tenure as prefect....... kids from 11-16/17 start getting seriously scary....... and opposite to what you might think it was the prefects that got bullied by the thugs a lot of the time.... some prfects then took out their frustration by lording it over the little kids and the cycle never seemed to break.... I couldn't wait to get out of school.I was your typical ....er.......um........ misfit in my youth... 
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Peter
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 12:33 |
^ I was a fair, but cruel head prefect....
Seriously, I think that for the most part, our prefect system worked. (It was only elementary school -- kindergarten to grade six -- so we pre-pubescent petty tyrants weren't too bad. I was only 11 years old, after all.)
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Wilcey
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 12:23 |
Peter wrote:
Well, PC, I was the HEAD prefect. 
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well I was also deputy head girl........ not such a great height of royalty as you though Peter...I bow to your superiority!
The prefect system ensures and encourages the understanding of hirearchy required for the work place, and obviously helps systemise bullying in school. Perfect system really 
My school days were hell...... there are some names even now if I hear them bring me out in a cold sweat of panic......
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1800iareyay
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 12:14 |
I saw that after I posted, but my short attention span forbade me from fixing it. I know it wasn't a caste system, just having fun. I only wish I could rant half as well as the all time king of the rant, Bill Hicks. RIP Bill 
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Peter
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 12:13 |
1800iareyay wrote:
Wow, kids in America don't have your complex caste system. We haven't theattention span for such nonsense. |
Or even for puttingspaces betweenwords....
BTW, it wasn't a "caste system" here in Canada -- just an old, effective method of maintaining more order in the school, and giving older kids some responsibility. 
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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1800iareyay
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 12:04 |
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Wow, kids in America don't have your complex caste system. We haven't theattention span for such nonsense.
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Jared
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 11:59 |
prog-chick wrote:
I was a prefect........  |
I was milk monitor....
until Maggie Snatcher stole it... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Peter
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 11:52 |
prog-chick wrote:
I was a prefect........
It's amazing really.......they must've had great hopes for me! |
Well, PC, I was the HEAD prefect.
That's "head" as in "chief" or "boss," Jim -- geez, a guy can't say anything around you lot of reprobates!
Send in the Head Nurse....
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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stonebeard
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 11:47 |
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Prefects?
SO English!
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Wilcey
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 11:44 |
I was a prefect........
It's amazing really.......they must've had great hopes for me!
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Syzygy
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 11:01 |
Geck0 wrote:
I was about to say the same, Andy!
At least they don't have to wear School Blazers like a lot of my school friends did (I went to a non-Blazer wearing school)!
No ties listed either... hmm. I still have my school tie somewhere, still with my prefect badge on it.
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Prefect badge?!?!?!
I was never made a prefect when I was at school.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Wilcey
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 10:42 |
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Its also the first time I've ever seen a gumsheild needed at school. |
health and safety, health and safety.........
In my day a sports injury was a badge of honour!
The third child wears a blazer to school........ often 'loses' them or rips them.....
I just spoke to my Mum... I don't know how she managed with five of us in shirts, ties and blazers.....
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sleeper
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 10:23 |
Geck0 wrote:
I was about to say the same, Andy!
At least they don't have to wear School Blazers like a lot of my school friends did (I went to a non-Blazer wearing school)!
No ties listed either... hmm. I still have my school tie somewhere, still with my prefect badge on it.
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Thankfully I escaped the ties and blazers (I still despise ties, uncomfortable, fiddly bloody things). Its also the first time I've ever seen a gumsheild needed at school.
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