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- Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:07 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Global Warming - fact or fiction (round 3!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4583
1) Incandescent light-bulbs are an extraordinarily inefficient way to heat anything. You might as well say that your satellite receiver on stand-by is helping to heat the room (it is; it's also helping to heat the LNB on the roof). 2) As regards SAD, you can get (with some difficulty) low-energy bul...
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:00 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Global Warming - fact or fiction (round 3!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4583
The general theme of this article is to be found in a book by Christopher Booker and someone else whose name I forget (perhaps Mr Carter), and regurgitated in the Telegraph by Mr Booker from time to time (most recently on Monday). I don't know whether it's true, but Mr Booker is quite generally not ...
- Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:38 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11436
- Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:34 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11436
Perhaps someone who knows Cambridge can tell me where this was taken, becasue I have a feeling we were somewhere we should not have been. Also does anyone remember these two guys, who must have left in 1965/6 or thereabouts The pic is taken by the fountain in Trinity Great Court. I think you were a...
- Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:31 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11436
I knew Mike Smith very well. He was Senior Grecian 1963/64 (the year after I left), and I took over his room in a house-share in Cambridge with two other OBs in 1968. I think he lectures in history somewhere, but I don't know where. I don't think Mike Hiley was an OB. He must have been a friend of M...
- Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:23 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Things you brought with you from home.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9024
(For the benefit of the ladies and youngsters a beating of between 4 and 8 strokes was carried out with a hard slipper or a long cane on underpant covered buttocks with the skin well stretched. This is the first I have ever heard of this. I was never beaten, but of those I knew who were, they never...
- Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:09 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH Debating Society
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1830
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:06 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Things you brought with you from home.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9024
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:01 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Things you brought with you from home.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9024
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:55 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11436
Hey, since I was at Hertford from 63 to 70, I must have been in your '64 group .... tee hee ! I remember the punting, but not for the life of me much else - although I do remember that our undergrad ( not necessarily you, Michael) would not let us have a go with the punt - he thought that we might ...
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:44 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11436
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:03 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Bullying & Abuse - Take II
- Replies: 132
- Views: 62040
- Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:31 am
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11436
Mr Stiff was an OB who was something in the City. In the 60s he had the idea of taking Hertford juniors on outings to Cambridge, and getting OB undergraduates who could stand the embarrassment of being surrounded by 12-year-old girls to do Cambridgey things with them, like punting on the Cam and tea...
- Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:11 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11436
Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings
Hi girls
I'm told Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings are still remembered. Anyway, I was one of the outers -- 1964 and 1965. Excruciatingly embarrassing! Mind you, to be surrounded by little girls then was merely comical.
Is there anyone out there who was on my punt? I was the one from Emmanuel College.
I'm told Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings are still remembered. Anyway, I was one of the outers -- 1964 and 1965. Excruciatingly embarrassing! Mind you, to be surrounded by little girls then was merely comical.
Is there anyone out there who was on my punt? I was the one from Emmanuel College.
- Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Jokes, please.....
- Replies: 2390
- Views: 412870