Some questions about today's CH part 2

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Some questions about today's CH part 2

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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.

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Oh you sarcastic man you....
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You flatter me...! :wink:
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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".
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Ah, another 'Python' moment!

"Oh Yangtze, oh Yangtze! River full of........fish!"

I'm trying to remember the song, now.....
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can't help you there I'm afraid....
that's the only line I remember...
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Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
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J.R. wrote:Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
Aaaaaarrrrgh!!! :lol:
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Richard Ruck wrote:
J.R. wrote:Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
Aaaaaarrrrgh!!! :lol:
Hahahahaha!

Probably the funniest thing I've heard all day
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Emma Jane wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:
J.R. wrote:Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
Aaaaaarrrrgh!!! :lol:
Hahahahaha!

Probably the funniest thing I've heard all day
Glad to see you're easily amused !
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J.R. wrote:
Emma Jane wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote: Aaaaaarrrrgh!!! :lol:
Hahahahaha!

Probably the funniest thing I've heard all day
Glad to see you're easily amused !
Well, she is a student! ;)
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and possibly pissed...
and the author of the post is 50 something....
(altho it did make me smile a bit)
Allegedly the shag drops its crest when it has mated.
How would that fit in with Old Blues???

And shags are green...
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Great Plum wrote:
Well, she is a student! ;)
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.

Isn't that called a protestant? or is DebGP getting me completely confused??
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Rory wrote:and possibly pissed...
In the context of this thread, how about "well-oiled"?
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Post by englishangel »

Not today's CH but from the rules at Hertford.

When can you NOT have a picnic in the school grounds?
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