Last night antics
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Re: Last night antics
Last night in Prep A lower dorm there was an almighty pillow fight after midnight plus beds overturned etc. Slipper for everyone in the dorm -ouch
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Re: Last night antics
Very quiet night now - thank God! I remember a bonfire in the Quad in my early years. Those days are long gone and I don't think you will find many staff who mourn!
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sejintenej wrote:Last night in Prep A lower dorm there was an almighty pillow fight after midnight plus beds overturned etc. Slipper for everyone in the dorm -ouch
I was under the impression that corporal punishment was now illegal.
John Rutley. Prep B & Coleridge B. 1958-1963.
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JR you are showing tempus fugit. - I was there in your time. Anyway corporal punishment is coming back.J.R. wrote:sejintenej wrote:Last night in Prep A lower dorm there was an almighty pillow fight after midnight plus beds overturned etc. Slipper for everyone in the dorm -ouch
I was under the impression that corporal punishment was now illegal.
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Great stuff ! Any news on capital punishment ??sejintenej wrote:JR you are showing tempus fugit. - I was there in your time. Anyway corporal punishment is coming back.J.R. wrote:sejintenej wrote:Last night in Prep A lower dorm there was an almighty pillow fight after midnight plus beds overturned etc. Slipper for everyone in the dorm -ouch
I was under the impression that corporal punishment was now illegal.
John Rutley. Prep B & Coleridge B. 1958-1963.
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Re: Last night antics
My last night was a bit...shall we say...chaotic.
A couple of friends and I had planned to wrap the statue and other Quad-related items in the 40-or-so toilet rolls that we had "borrowed" from the toilets over the course of the 1990 Summer Term (I like to plan ahead). I had all these carefully stashed away in my wardrobe, which I had secured with a padlock.
Unfortunately, I had too much of a good friendship with a bottle of Bacardi that evening, and drunken antics led to me breaking a window and severing an arteriole in my finger (messy). Cue being marched down to the sicker where Dr Hoskins was summoned, stitches were administered and I was told in no uncertain terms that I was in no state to go back onto the school grounds. So I was kept in. And I still had the key for the padlock.
Despite the cubicles having windows that only opened a few inches, I knew the end cubicle had no restriction and opened fully - I doubt the nurses did. So once everything was quiet, I tiptoed drunkenly down the corridor, pushed up the window and jumped out. Unfortunately for all my stealthy escape, I was rounded up in the Club about an hour later whilst looking for my partners in crime and forcibly put back to bed by Sister Spring...
It was certainly a night I won't forget in a hurry (still have the scars to prove it) and my Mum was quite grateful for not having to buy toilet roll for a while.
PS Edit: From the photo of myself and Nigel Killpack the morning after, it looks like some sort of chessboard was made outside dining hall using sheets but I have no recollection of anything fantastic being done. Damn that bottle of Bacardi!!


A couple of friends and I had planned to wrap the statue and other Quad-related items in the 40-or-so toilet rolls that we had "borrowed" from the toilets over the course of the 1990 Summer Term (I like to plan ahead). I had all these carefully stashed away in my wardrobe, which I had secured with a padlock.
Unfortunately, I had too much of a good friendship with a bottle of Bacardi that evening, and drunken antics led to me breaking a window and severing an arteriole in my finger (messy). Cue being marched down to the sicker where Dr Hoskins was summoned, stitches were administered and I was told in no uncertain terms that I was in no state to go back onto the school grounds. So I was kept in. And I still had the key for the padlock.
Despite the cubicles having windows that only opened a few inches, I knew the end cubicle had no restriction and opened fully - I doubt the nurses did. So once everything was quiet, I tiptoed drunkenly down the corridor, pushed up the window and jumped out. Unfortunately for all my stealthy escape, I was rounded up in the Club about an hour later whilst looking for my partners in crime and forcibly put back to bed by Sister Spring...
It was certainly a night I won't forget in a hurry (still have the scars to prove it) and my Mum was quite grateful for not having to buy toilet roll for a while.

PS Edit: From the photo of myself and Nigel Killpack the morning after, it looks like some sort of chessboard was made outside dining hall using sheets but I have no recollection of anything fantastic being done. Damn that bottle of Bacardi!!

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