Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Where did I state or imply that I wanted to remove anyone?

I hope that Avon's contribution was meant as a joke, but, as someone who spent 34 years in the Army and frequently worked with the RAF, I find it in poor taste. For the benefit of those not 'in the know,' "crab" is a term used in the RN and Army to describe RAF - it is sometimes used humo...

I find it deeply comforting that CH produced so few crabs. Quite right too.

On a different note here’s an anecdote about a frequent contributor to this Forum, who after leaving school had a most distinguished career in the services. He was at CH a few years after Griffiths and had an unusual CCF related experience while at CH, after winning an award from the RAF to complet...

Unless people are truly memorable, I remember them by resemblance. So Baker I remember as Baker, but his successor looked like Erich Honecker, and the one after that looked like Squidward from spongebob squarepants. Likewise, there was a housemaster who looked like Marvin Monroe from the Simpsons. T...

Thats the feller. Mad as a box of frogs, ISTR that he was into petrol lawn mower racing. Nice guy though - so was his opposite number Yuri Bondov.

When I first joined the Navy, the Masons were a bit of a wardroom joke. I was approached to join once but the bloke was a bit of a tool and a joke himself. Nowadays I just don't hear of them. I guess it's dying out. The politics master at CH took against them (I'm pants with names) and was quite int...

Have you had a look at http://www.chassociation.org/shop/ ? I would say 'what a load of toss' but there are only about five things. I very seldom wear ties that signify 'belonging' but I've always thought that the CH one was particularly uninspiring (the striped one) - ones with crests are just dow...

The media are always deeply disappointing - we had TV with us for three days filming Sea King crews and we took them up and put up with them wanting to bolt cameras in strange and dangerous places. All for just under two minutes of airtime. Not worth the candle and despite the MoD media machine fawn...

Out shopping in Helston today ....... Is the Blue Anchor still there and does it still brew Spingo (?spelling) on the premises? It surely is and it surely does, O Drink-Sodden One. http://www.spingoales.com/ Some of my best hangovers have Spingo written on them. However I confined myself to a bitte...

Out shopping in Helston today I saw two sets of violently ginger parents but their children looked normal. Clearly a cure has been found.

Oh yes - I forgot music. I don't have a musical bone in my body. I think there were some lessons on music on the 2nd form and then I never reentered the building.

Spent a lot of time smoking behind it though.

michael scuffil wrote: By the late 70s TK was quite a serious figure compared with the early 60s.

By the 80s he was back to being a joke. Seeing as this is a thread on uselessness it's also worth mentioning his wife, who put the Borgias to shame with her attempts at mass poisoning.

Marching. I had two left feet. However, I used to avoid lunches - I've never been much of a lunch person and I just took a nap instead.

I suspect because Her Majesty The Queen is head of State, AND Head of the Church of England. Probably - but that makes it a sinecure. Until the CofE shows leadership at that sort of level and stops in-fighting over women bishops and gays in the clergy perhaps the Lords Spiritual had better spend th...