So What Was It Actually Like When the School Went Mixed?

[Spoonbill]

I still don't get this thing about being nicknamed 'Stubby'. I mean, presumably it doesn't apply to all men? So what exactly does the nickname denote?

I'm so confused. Men just weren't called stubby in my day. Nobody was.

[J.R.]

I still don't get this thing about being nicknamed 'Stubby'. I mean, presumably it doesn't apply to all men? So what exactly does the nickname denote?

I'm so confused. Men just weren't called stubby in my day. Nobody was.

As an 'older' one on this site, I can only assume it follows this analogy.

Take a cigarette from a packet - You have a long thin cigarette.

Smoke it right down, then put it out, and you have a STUB.

Something rather short, soiled and rather useless.

(Nurse ?? I think I need the pills again !)

[Spoonbill]

You're not telling me that people who ran out of baccy used to smoke their own choppers?

I positively refuse to believe this.

(Sensible explanations only, please.)

[J.R.]

You're not telling me that people who ran out of baccy used to smoke their own choppers?

I positively refuse to believe this.

(Sensible explanations only, please.)

That kills this thread, then !!

[adlop]

The girls arrived in my UF year, though they had been visiting during the LE year. The one thing I remember people saying was not about the girls but about the way the booze changed. We mainly drank beer and cider but when the girls came it changed to cinzano, martini and spirits.

[Richard Ruck]

but when the girls came it changed to cinzano, martini and spirits.

Spirits OK, but CINZANO ???

[adlop]

Spirits OK, but CINZANO ???

cheap and strong for price, seem to remember taking some from my parents and regretting it for a good while after.

[Richard Ruck]

Well, cheap is good when you're at school........

I drank all sorts of vile concotions during my school career.

Many people here will remember Watney's Party Sevens



Vile stuff, really, but quite the thing at the time.

[Sergiu Panaite]

By the time I got there, numbers were slightly more equal (that really doesn't make sense..), and it was all quite normal. Plenty of people "sneaking around" as you'd expect (myself included, on a few very rare occasions), although obviously some still got caught and dealt with accordingly (which, iirc, rarely meant expulsion - depended on how old they were as well of course). I can't even imagine it, but CH must've been quite different in its previous, single-sex state.

[cstegerlewis]

Same as adlop (he and I were best buddies at the time) I was also in the UF when they arrived, and mostly the social life improved. The first few weeks of Michaelmas '85 was raging hormones and gross exaggerations of who would like to be with (and do what) to who, and I remember there were loads of rumours of Grecian night time activities that were probably stretched as they filtered down the years.

Certainly sitting on the railings on the back asphalt became a favourite pastime during the afternoons, at least where you could see the netball courts. And I think DNP's productions became more popular for a while as you could get closer to girls out of uniform!

But you also did go to some extreme lengths to get girls into the house after prep or at the weekends, because it was so much harder to get into theirs - all the boys studies were downstairs, whereas in the girls houses you had to get upstairs, much more likely to be seen.

Oh and Ads, thanks for dissappearing on Sunday afternoons when ZBB visited, although you were probably off with some one else!

[adlop]

Oh and Ads, thanks for dissappearing on Sunday afternoons when ZBB visited, although you were probably off with some one else!

ZBB - now there's a real blast form the past. Do you still keep in touch? I've lost touch with that group.