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I never had a detention or a drill in my seven years at CH.
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cj wrote:I never had a detention or a drill in my seven years at CH.
Neither did I!
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Great Plum wrote:
cj wrote:I never had a detention or a drill in my seven years at CH.
Neither did I!
Must try harder.
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cj wrote:I never had a detention or a drill in my seven years at CH.
Neither did I!

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cj wrote:I never had a detention or a drill in my seven years at CH.
I'm glad you are ashamed enough to try to hide your post.
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I was extremely naughty in my last two/three years, but never got caught! And I'm not going into any details.
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Oh but I think you should!
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Great Plum wrote:Oh but I think you should!
Seconded, Matt !!
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cj you've got us all eager to learn more
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Great Plum wrote:Oh but I think you should!
Seconded, Matt !!
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cj wrote:I was extremely naughty in my last two/three years, but never got caught! And I'm not going into any details.
Why not?

You know we all want to hear now!!!
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I only had ever one detention, from DR.

We had to learn some verses of a psalm (I think) for prep and as I was in ther middle of a good book I read that instead.

Next RE lesson we each had to recite said verses and muggins was told to go first. I 'told the truth and shamed the Devil' and got a detenetion for my honesty.

Of course by the time everyone else had recited it I was word perfect, which I proved, I still had to do the detention though, learning another few verses.
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cj wrote:I never had a detention or a drill in my seven years at CH.
I think I got two in 9 years. The first I forget but the second was a laugh; it was given by a master in his first term out of uni and I was simply one member of a chemistry class which got detention en masse.

Slight problem; he was my junior house master, I was trades monitor and, come hell and high water (and Asian Flu) the trades monitor had, absolutely had, to be in dining hall for trades. Slight problem; trades were at the same time as the detention; trades won :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Stupid a**ehole. He had instructed us to make aniline dye and gone out of the lab. The process involves N30 NaOH (sodium hydroxide) which is just about as nasty a common chemical as you can get hold of (we had to make it to get it that strong). Explosion (accidental) ; two boys covered in boiling NaOH so we merely thoroughly doused them with water. The floor was swimming; their clothes were burnt off them but they got away with reddening of the skin. The master came back, added 2 + 2 and got 50 and gave everyone detention. By the time he ascertained what had happened he couldn't back out of the punishment! I know Kit Aitken had a go at him over that.
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cj wrote:I was extremely naughty in my last two/three years, but never got caught! And I'm not going into any details.
Man! And there was me thinking that butter wouldn't melt in your mouth.
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Happy wrote:
cj wrote:I was extremely naughty in my last two/three years, but never got caught! And I'm not going into any details.
Man! And there was me thinking that butter wouldn't melt in your mouth.
Did you know me? And do I know you?

It helps if no-one expects you to break the rules ie. you do it for your own benefit, not because you want people to think you are a rebel. You can get away with a lot more. All I am prepared to say is that the offences would have resulted in immediate expulsion if caught. I made it by the skin of my teeth on a couple of occasions, but was probably not worried about the outcome at that time. That's all, folks - I have my reputation to think about!!
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