Some questions about today's CH

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shoz wrote: The cuff buttons are also symbolic of status: if the outer button is unfastened on both cuffs then the boys is an academic; if one is unfastened he is both academic and monitor. If neither is unfastened the boy in question is only a monitor.' Is this still true?

Do you have a school cat? If so, what is its name?
Re. buttons - I had my (academic) buttons in 1978 - never heard of this one....

Re. cat - are you being serious??
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The buttons thing was still semi-true, though people interpreted it as they wanted to more. A few people on my year (myself included) had two undone on each arm, for no reason whatsoever really except that it apparently looked better or something. Kids, eh?
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Richard Ruck wrote:Re. cat - are you being serious??
Yes I am, many schools have cats to keep mice at bay, particularly in old buildings.
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shoz wrote:Do you have to make your own beds; who changes them?
Shoz, if you were obliged to make an inspired guess here, what would your answer be?

Go on, have a go! :roll:

You really are trying to construct a rather detailed picture, aren't you?
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shoz wrote:Can anyone please answer these questions in relation to CH as it is now?

Do you have a school cat? If so, what is its name?
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I think you are getting confused with Hogwarts.
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I thought the colour yellow got rid of the rats! ;)
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How well informed... the colour yellow is certainly not a rat's favourite.
I think there was a study carried out in Japan once on this very topic - maybe you were involved in the research. Anyway - the bottom line seems to be that the colour yellow causes diarrhoea and then eventually wrecks the rat's liver. Poor little things....
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Rory wrote:Anyway - the bottom line seems to be that the colour yellow causes diarrhoea and then eventually wrecks the rat's liver. Poor little things....
I'd better remember that when I'm next at The French House supping Ricard!
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I believe that is why the colour yellow is used so priminently in the sock colour... in London they were hung at the end of the beds to keep the rats away...
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Rory wrote:How well informed... the colour yellow is certainly not a rat's favourite.
I think there was a study carried out in Japan once on this very topic - maybe you were involved in the research. Anyway - the bottom line seems to be that the colour yellow causes diarrhoea and then eventually wrecks the rat's liver. Poor little things....
how did they know all this in 1552? had japan even been invented then?
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shoz wrote:post withdrawn
Well that's no fun, is it?
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Very Strange !
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the undoing of the cuff buttons still applies, none is a monitor, one is both academic and monitor and both is just academic.

there is no school cat as far as i am aware, (modern days therefroe no mice (i wish!)!)

from what i was told by the museum on my second form the yellow was not for rats, as the rumours say, but because onion dye was the cheapest available at the time so it was used and has stayed. i do not know which is true, just telling you what i have been told.

anyway i find that a big boot up the rear end, or a pellet gun keeps the rats away better than any cheap dye!!!!!!
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