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by Spoonbill
Fri Apr 28, 2023 11:39 am
Forum: Barnes Photos
Topic: Barnes B striped rugger shirts
Replies: 7
Views: 7903

Re: Barnes B striped rugger shirts

Bottom left is Jeremy Dallyn, I think.

Could the faceless lad in the second row be John Cullen? That's my theory anyway.
by Spoonbill
Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:35 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
Replies: 7
Views: 5963

Re: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)

And you're quite sure he wasn't trying to get his hands on you purely in order to throttle you for being an annoying little tick?
by Spoonbill
Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:47 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Four Quick Questions
Replies: 0
Views: 20753

Four Quick Questions

(1) Is the ring fence still the same fence it was 50 years ago or did that rust into oblivion long since? (2) Are the so-called Cow Sheds (opposite the so-called Bluecoat Pond) still accessible to smokers? And were they ever actually cow sheds or just an equipment store? (3) Where do houseyboys/girl...
by Spoonbill
Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:19 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Does Being Bullied at School Help to Prepare You for Life?
Replies: 9
Views: 3097

Does Being Bullied at School Help to Prepare You for Life?

.....by introducing you to the concepts of having to take the rough with the smooth and having to share the world with all sorts of arseholes?
by Spoonbill
Thu Dec 24, 2020 8:16 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On Christmas Night
Replies: 3
Views: 1831

Re: On Christmas Night

And don't forget that at midnight on Christmas Eve, all animals temporarily have the power of speech. So make sure you have a good no-holds-barred chat with your companion animals tonight and don't forget to have a pen and paper with you, because they'll probably have plenty of complaints they'll wa...
by Spoonbill
Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:24 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Webb guilty. Again.
Replies: 4
Views: 12162

Re: Webb guilty. Again.

Are you up for being a judge yourself, Richard? Or would that mess up your plans to retire to sunny North Korea next year and play table tennis with Kim Jong-un once a week?
by Spoonbill
Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:09 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Black Lives Matter
Replies: 101
Views: 49118

Re: Black Lives Matter

Katharine wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:21 pm You men you will never have been shouted at in the street to "Show us your t*ts love"....
Er....actually....
by Spoonbill
Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:16 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 32953

Re: GRACE

Ajarn Philip wrote: Sun Jul 19, 2020 11:48 am Sadly, I don't remember ever being cheered! :lol:
On the other side of the coin, do you remember being booed? Or pelted with horse manure?
by Spoonbill
Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:06 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 32953

Re: GRACE

In my experience, if you did well in your A-Levels and were staying on to do a scholarship term (or a four-term scholarship term, even), you were automatically awarded Buttons. As for the other Button Grecians, they were for the most part school monitors whom it was obvious from the Second Form onwa...
by Spoonbill
Thu Jul 09, 2020 9:51 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 32953

Re: GRACE

When D H Newsome was headmaster at Horsham, there was an occasion when a Button Grecian read grace at the end of the meal and deliberately said So season and refresh our souls with thy heavenly spirit, that we may live to thy honour and Grolly - one of Newsome's nicknames. Killer Fry (in his capacit...
by Spoonbill
Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:58 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Leave Days in Horsham
Replies: 20
Views: 10490

Re: Leave Days in Horsham

You never threw up? What a wasted opportunity to drag the good name of Christ's Hospital through the mud. Shame on you.
by Spoonbill
Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:39 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Leave Days in Horsham
Replies: 20
Views: 10490

Re: Leave Days in Horsham

So did you throw up on the train or wait till you got back to CH before doing it?
by Spoonbill
Sun May 17, 2020 10:36 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Arthur Lockhart
Replies: 8
Views: 3481

Re: Arthur Lockhart

And to think you found all that stuff out in spite of being in Azerbaijan.

The wonders of the internet, eh?

So, have you traced your own ancestors back to the days when they actually made nails for a living?
by Spoonbill
Thu May 14, 2020 7:17 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
Replies: 34
Views: 17944

Re: Pongo - Eric Littlefield

What I do know is that 'Pongo' was a common RAF term for Army officers. So, why it should have been applied to Mr Littlefield I have no idea. I understand that the word pongo denotes an orang utan. Did Mr Littlefield look uncannily like an orang utan? If so, it might explain why he qualified for th...
by Spoonbill
Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:52 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The 'Old Blue': March 2020.
Replies: 4
Views: 2483

Re: The 'Old Blue': March 2020.

Maybe it just seems smaller because you're getting bigger and bigger. And bigger.

Go easy on the carbs, I'd say.