Some questions about today's CH part 2
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Some questions about today's CH part 2
Can anyone help me with the following question, please?
I saw in a film entitled "The Meaning of Life" a scene in which the headmaster of a public school announces that "a boy has been caught rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant".
Do all boarding schools have a cormorant?
Does Christ's Hospital have one, and, if so, how long is its beak? And is it still an offence to oil the cormorant?
If it is, I would be grateful if somebody could provide precise details of the applicable punishments.
Thank-you.
I saw in a film entitled "The Meaning of Life" a scene in which the headmaster of a public school announces that "a boy has been caught rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant".
Do all boarding schools have a cormorant?
Does Christ's Hospital have one, and, if so, how long is its beak? And is it still an offence to oil the cormorant?
If it is, I would be grateful if somebody could provide precise details of the applicable punishments.
Thank-you.
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RR - a wonderful post and definately one of your finer moments on this thing - well done.
But its good that you mention cormorants. Over here - they're a big thing and very favoured - down in Yangshuo there's a gang of cormorants that go fishing - they're quite famous. However - ironically they fish in the Li river - not "the river full of fish".
But its good that you mention cormorants. Over here - they're a big thing and very favoured - down in Yangshuo there's a gang of cormorants that go fishing - they're quite famous. However - ironically they fish in the Li river - not "the river full of fish".
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No she's not - she's a nun (she said so but I don't know how to do multiple quotes from different sources) ...... wel may be a sort of student nun.Great Plum wrote:
Well, she is a student!
Isn't that called a protestant? or is DebGP getting me completely confused??
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