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by rockfreak
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Best names in the media
Replies: 21
Views: 4140

Re: Best names in the media

I don't know about the media, apart from the fact that it reported football, but in the Euro 2000s there was Cocu, Totti and Windass in one tournament, and if it had been the World Cup they would have had Titi Camarra who, I think, played for Nigeria. And then there was, many years ago, that French ...
by rockfreak
Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Programme of Marches Played by the Christ's Hospital Military Band
Replies: 3
Views: 337

Re: Programme of Marches Played by the Christ's Hospital Military Band

Years after I'd left they appeared to have resurrected the theme from Sports Report. This was where we all went silent at home (partly to hear the fortunes of Spurs (my team) or Middlesbrough (my Dad's team) and so my dad could work out whether he'd won a fortune on Littlewoods Pools (he never did).
by rockfreak
Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
Replies: 93
Views: 51469

Re: Michael Cherniavsky

Back to Geoffrey Cannon who posted originally on this site. He crops up in a new book: "Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961 to 1971". It's a new edition of a 1988 book by Jonathon Green which does what it says; collected unexpurgated opinions on the counter culture ...
by rockfreak
Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:02 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Bernard Levin
Replies: 2
Views: 5164

Bernard Levin

Did anyone catch the BBC documentary on Levin just recently? Fascinating. CH got briefly featured. Levin - small, bespectacled and Jewish - admitted to being bullied. But at election time he'd managed to hang a red flag around the clock on Big School. I seem to have heard another version that he'd h...
by rockfreak
Fri Nov 10, 2023 9:40 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: teaching relevance in later life
Replies: 24
Views: 43397

Re: teaching relevance in later life

Deafness in Later Life: I think a limerick is due.

Keibat went deaf through a bang,
While Le Freak heard the loud guitars clang.
But it must be more cheering
To be losing your hearing
As opposed to be losing your wang.
by rockfreak
Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Wiki is wrong! Launchbury
Replies: 8
Views: 23298

Re: Wiki is wrong! Launchbury

He has fallen on his feet since Wasps collapsed and been snapped up by Harlequins. Smith, Dombrandt, Care, Louis Lynagh, Joe Marler. You couldn't have picked a better team Joe. You would know I was a Quins fan wouldn't you. The Gallagher Premiership has seen three famous names fall by the wayside: W...
by rockfreak
Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:37 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 229200

The timely defenestration of Bonehead

Hooray! At last the Tory MP Peter Bone has been found out. Apart from the fact that he was a Brexiteer I always found him pompous and arrogant. He was a well-advertised, so-called Christian (the Plymouth Brethren in this case) but he always seemed too arrogant to me. After all we were always taught ...
by rockfreak
Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:35 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Paintings in Chapel - Frank Brangwyn
Replies: 24
Views: 34028

Re: Paintings in Chapel - Frank Brangwyn

I checked out the websites on him and what became apparent was how restrained the murals in the CH chapel were. At what seemed to me his best, his stuff could be a riot of sunflower yellows, emerald greens and vibrant purples. In the early 20th century he seems to have been part of the strain of Ger...
by rockfreak
Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:53 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: % of full fee paying pupils - any update available?
Replies: 13
Views: 62238

Re: % of full fee paying pupils - any update available?

Football definitely not acceptable back then. Even though the Magnificent Magyars had taught us a lesson at Wembley, Brazil were on the rise, and footie would shortly take over the attention of the world - even the snotty, middle class populace of the public schools. At CH those who liked soccer use...
by rockfreak
Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:45 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Death of Ben Sweeny alias Spoonbill
Replies: 8
Views: 15169

Re: Death of Ben Sweeny alias Spoonbill

Spoony (Spooney?) did indeed have a robust set of bouncing bomb opinions which pleased some and infuriated others. Upon his return to the site after an interval I wrote a limerick about him which he responded to with one of his own. Here's mine which may perhaps serve as his epitaph. Some welcomed t...
by rockfreak
Tue Oct 10, 2023 7:30 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70164

Re: On this day 70 years ago

I wasn't a huge film fan either but one I do remember being shown was The Searchers starring John Wayne. To this day one of the best Westerns ever made. Director John Ford who later faced down McCarthy and his henchmen during the so-called communist scare. It featured white settlers versus indigenou...
by rockfreak
Sun Oct 08, 2023 8:27 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: % of full fee paying pupils - any update available?
Replies: 13
Views: 62238

Re: % of full fee paying pupils - any update available?

I don't know why they're spending all this money on state-of-the-art sports facilities. When I was there in the 1950s, if they couldn't think of anything else to exhaust us with they resorted to heartyball. This was essentially the Eton Wall Game without the wall. Find a patch of rough ground and ha...
by rockfreak
Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70164

Re: On this day 70 years ago

Indigenous tribal societies I believe have a "rite of passage" ordeal. Well mine wasn't quite so rugged. When the Housey Special disgorged me into Victoria station in July 1960 I took off down Vauxhall Bridge Road to the very first Picasso retrospective which was showing at the old Tate (b...
by rockfreak
Fri Oct 06, 2023 8:01 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70164

Re: On this day 70 years ago

Reading Ruth's sad story it seems that the girls got the bum's rush. At CH Horsham, even in the1950s, we had some cultural capital (as it's called). There were choirs and an orchestra, a drama society who put on a full Shakespeare play every year (I can still remember Mr Keep explaining The Merchant...
by rockfreak
Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:50 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70164

Re: On this day 70 years ago

I arrived in the same intake as Sejintenej in September 1952. He to Prep A, me to Prep B. All I remember is that I don't remember much. For the first few weeks it was all a blank. I'm told by psychologists who have studied boarding school education that this is quite common. The effect of being thru...