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by Richard Ruck
Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:46 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Health and safety gone mad!
Replies: 51
Views: 6983

Re: Health and safety gone mad!

....and yet in reality today we have the potential available for wholesale slaughter at the touch of a button - and it could be done automatically at long distance without the button-pusher ever actually setting eyes on the bodies, which you would think would make it 'easier' and 'less personal', b...
by Richard Ruck
Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:25 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

passage
by Richard Ruck
Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:23 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: The fewcher of edicayshun
Replies: 14
Views: 3454

Re: The fewcher of edicayshun

I hate to be pedantic, but as this thread is about learning I feel obliged to point out that the plural of stadium is stadia, not stadii. Ta!
by Richard Ruck
Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

Riot
by Richard Ruck
Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:42 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Bokkers Today
Replies: 57
Views: 11937

Re: Bokkers Today

Well, in my day (late 70s, Horsham), the term 'bokker' pretty much denoted all non-academic CH staff except matrons, the Catering Manager and the Estate Manager. All groundsmen, all Dining Hall staff, all house-cleaners, wardrobe staff and linen-room assistants were bokkers. The staff of the Tuck S...
by Richard Ruck
Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:32 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

Feck
by Richard Ruck
Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:36 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Bokkers Today
Replies: 57
Views: 11937

Re: Bokkers Today

Chrissie Boy wrote:Is Richard Ruck a bokker, by the way?
No.
by Richard Ruck
Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:21 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

Sidon(s)
by Richard Ruck
Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:14 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

Blimp
by Richard Ruck
Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:24 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

Bogey
by Richard Ruck
Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:52 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

nostrum
by Richard Ruck
Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:47 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: MEMORABLE THEATRE OR MUSIC CONCERT AT CH
Replies: 63
Views: 37568

Re: MEMORABLE THEATRE OR MUSIC CONCERT AT CH

huntertitus wrote:Hey Dick - would you like to see what Rory looks like now? I was sent a photo of him recently. He's a died in the wool smoker and doesn't give a monkeys about the health implications! If you send me your email address I'll send it to you. (info@robinft.co.uk)
Have sent e-mail.....
by Richard Ruck
Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:45 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Change of Name - is it true?
Replies: 43
Views: 10713

Re: Change of Name - is it true?

englishangel wrote:Friends of Christ's Hospital would have been inclusive.
This already exists. It's a group in the USA which raises a lot of funds for CH, arranges exchanges etc.
by Richard Ruck
Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:41 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Change of Name - is it true?
Replies: 43
Views: 10713

Re: Change of Name - is it true?

You can't be that backward, you are on here. Exactly the point. The subject of communications was raised at a meeting of Governors a couple of years ago, which I attended in my (then) capacity as a CHA Board member. A significant minority of the more senior governors were quite vehement in their op...
by Richard Ruck
Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:16 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3705608

Re: Mallett's Mallet

Quellada