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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:49 pm
by Paul N
marty wrote:dr maddren - spider
Spider Maddren - classic ! He was a big gangly !

Another slang list

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:58 pm
by Paul N
Here's my collection of slang, probably covered in the 20 odd pages before this one:
  • Crud and Flab - bread and butter
    The eternal and never to be banned "BOCKERS" !
    Mobbing - to boot off a junior by merely due to the fact that you were senior
    Squits - presume this one is still around
    Snilliards - a mutant combination of snooker and billiards
    KV (Kemp)
    Fruit - attractive male in a slightly non-hetero context
    Milky - fat
    Daily Trades - cleaning up after meals
    Cracks - corporal punishment by some sadist with a slipper (thanks Mr Grimshaw, I owe you one)
    Chariot Racing - being pulled down the dorm floor on a blanket ala Ben Hur (responsible for my above "crack")
    Bocker Squad - what you did if you were not in the CCF
    Sicker - the infirmary

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:19 am
by Richard Ruck
Paul N wrote:
marty wrote:dr maddren - spider
Spider Maddren - classic ! He was a big gangly !
Still teaching at C.H., I believe.

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:55 am
by Great Plum
Yes, I think he is now the longest serving member of staff...

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:18 pm
by Paul N
Great Plum wrote:Yes, I think he is now the longest serving member of staff...
What does he teach ?

I remember he had thick dark hair and perhaps a beard. He really was gangly, like an octopus, legs all over the place.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:29 am
by sport!
Paul N wrote:What does he teach ?

I remember he had thick dark hair and perhaps a beard. He really was gangly, like an octopus, legs all over the place.
It used to be chemistry didn't it?

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:15 am
by cj
I had Dr Maddren for chemistry during the mid-80s. I think he took my set through our GCSEs.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:20 am
by Great Plum
I had 'Mystic Mad' for Chemistry on my LE.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:14 pm
by DavebytheSea
Jonathan was taught Chemistry by Paul Maddren last year. Yes, he is still around and I am full of admiration for him.

Incidentally, his son James left CH last year. I saw him play in the Hall for Cornwall in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra last November. He is clearly a fine musician as, I believe, is his father.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:44 pm
by AndrewH
Paul N wrote:What does he teach ?

I remember he had thick dark hair and perhaps a beard. He really was gangly, like an octopus, legs all over the place.
He taught me the Chemistry bit of A level Physical Science 30 in 1975-77.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:09 am
by Great Plum
DavebytheSea wrote:Jonathan was taught Chemistry by Paul Maddren last year. Yes, he is still around and I am full of admiration for him.

Incidentally, his son James left CH last year. I saw him play in the Hall for Cornwall in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra last November. He is clearly a fine musician as, I believe, is his father.
James is an excellent musician - unbenkown to most, the 'non-foundationers' (ie teachers' children) every year do a mock panto/ nativity play. I remember James being the drummer in the band when he was 8 - he was already brilliant!

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:05 pm
by qwerty
Anyone remember doing a 'garage run' this is where you signed out to the 'library' during prep, then ran across some fields by the prep block until you came out on a dual carrage way where there was a petrol station, you would come out of the bushes jump over the crash barrier and run over to the petrol station, buy fags and run all the way back again in time for the end of prep.

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:50 am
by Richard Ruck
Great Plum wrote:
DavebytheSea wrote:Jonathan was taught Chemistry by Paul Maddren last year. Yes, he is still around and I am full of admiration for him.

Incidentally, his son James left CH last year. I saw him play in the Hall for Cornwall in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra last November. He is clearly a fine musician as, I believe, is his father.
James is an excellent musician - unbenkown to most, the 'non-foundationers' (ie teachers' children) every year do a mock panto/ nativity play. I remember James being the drummer in the band when he was 8 - he was already brilliant!
James was the drummer at the jazz evening at C.H. on Friday evening.

This was the first time I'd seen him play. He was outstanding.

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:35 pm
by Great Plum
qwerty wrote:Anyone remember doing a 'garage run' this is where you signed out to the 'library' during prep, then ran across some fields by the prep block until you came out on a dual carrage way where there was a petrol station, you would come out of the bushes jump over the crash barrier and run over to the petrol station, buy fags and run all the way back again in time for the end of prep.
I never did a garage run but they were quite popular I believe...

Yes, James is an outstanding musician!

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:01 pm
by peter2095
I remember doing the Garage Run

Don't think it was dossing over prep though

We did it one night when it was half term and we had to stay to go on CCF camp up to Capel Curig

All the boys were staying in Pe A (the only way) and when we got back we had a whisky and poker evening, i remember coming back from half term to find cigarette butts stashed behind my bed, it stank