Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:08 am
Toyce may well be a purely CH word but Winchester College (late 40's or early 50's) apparently had 'Toys' which had something of the same function.
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I don't think I'm very "with it" at the moment (must be the nasty cold) but I don't get this - why does being designed by BW mean they'd be uncomfortable?DavebytheSea wrote:.... must have made them damn uncomfortable to work in.Ruthie-Baby wrote:in Col B we were told that the toyces were designed by Barnes Wallis, just like the bouncing bomb.
One of the facts we had to learn for our 'Squits test'.
Bone-idle Old Codger, King (of) Employment ReductionScone Lover wrote:Oh boy, if we are going to get literal, what the hell will bocker come out as?huntertitus wrote:Table of youthful classroom excellence?Great Plum wrote:Maybe it stands for something - but I can't think what...
squits is also another name for what the Germans call 'Durchfall'...Ruthie-Baby wrote:there aren't any
it just means first year at CH
well I thought bokker was spelt like this with 2 ks...huntertitus wrote:Bone-idle Old Codger, King (of) Employment ReductionScone Lover wrote:Oh boy, if we are going to get literal, what the hell will bocker come out as?huntertitus wrote: Table of youthful classroom excellence?
btw does your christian name start with "S" - there's something fishy going on...
Award yourself a deerstalker and curly pipe!huntertitus wrote:That's not how Scone lover spelt it
btw did you notice how Scone lover appeared at about the same time a certain other very busy poster disappeared. I am slightly suspicious they may be the same person...
Well if they were designed like the bouncing bomb .......Ruthie-Baby wrote:I don't think I'm very "with it" at the moment (must be the nasty cold) but I don't get this - why does being designed by BW mean they'd be uncomfortable?DavebytheSea wrote:.... must have made them damn uncomfortable to work in.Ruthie-Baby wrote:in Col B we were told that the toyces were designed by Barnes Wallis, just like the bouncing bomb.
One of the facts we had to learn for our 'Squits test'.
well it's kind of important if you're trying to think up acromyns... but otherwise no it doesn't matterScone Lover wrote:By skipping marbles across a tub of water in the garden?
Who cares how bokker/bocker is spelled, I would just like to know where it came from.
And he/she can do what ever he/she wants on here surely. Whats with all the speculation who I may be, does it matter?