Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Anyone have any decent ( or even crap) jokes to share? It would be nice to have a thread which can be relied upon to raise a titter or two. I'll contribute a few which have been shamelessly nicked from elsewhere.... While out one morning in the park, a jogger found a brand new tennis ball, and seein...

What's this 'Grange Hill' thing all about? A load of child-star actors poncing about in a secondary school where they keep a donkey in the caretakers shed, Richard. About as believable as Father Christmas. (Oh, the irony, J.R. !!) About as believable as pupils being expected to empty their lower co...

So what's happened to the Prep block now? I assume it will still be needed as temporary housing if the other boarding houses get refurbished....

What's this 'Grange Hill' thing all about?

Do older members recall the bogs in the car-park behind the Art School? When I first came accross these as a squit, I was horrified by the lack of doors on the khazis. The whole thing was open to the elements, and each cubicle contained a roll of old-style hard bog-paper flapping in the wind, almost...

Outed!

Julian is a Television Evangelist, and I claim my jar of fake tan,peroxide-blonde 'wife' with dazzling teeth and the bank account in the Cayman Islands.....

Hendrik wrote:

Great Plum wrote:Most of the locks used to be pretty 'breakable' and winodws could always be opened...

no - it's just that we scouts were never deterred by 'closed doors'!

Was burglary part of the scouting tradition?

I had an official one.

As band captain I had to lock the music school every night.

Of course, I never used it for anything else........

Laura M wrote:Or maybe it was that mighty Ba.A was just such an impenatrable fortress.....

Ermmm, not in those days it wasn't.

Remember, all these things were possible because the doors were never locked.

Matron's inspections - I think there was always the threat of a 'Matron's bath' for those who failed to maintain their personal hygiene. This supposedly involved being scrubbed in the bath by matron (the old one, not the young Dutch assistant matron with short skirts and very long legs). I don't kno...

Don't recall our breeches getting lifted from Barnes A - perhaps they started at your end of the Avenue and couldn't carry any more after a while.....

The Swing March is from the film "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" (a Blake Edwards film).

The music is definitely by Henry Mancini. We used to play it, too.

Come on guys/gals, enough already - otherwise I'll start getting emails from people saying that certain pages are undisplayable etc. etc. which will down to you lot trying to subvert the word censors! J Nothing like a little linguistic challenge...! However, don't worry, as we are all well brought ...

I see that sh1t has now been added to the list of naughty words.

Well b****r me!

By the way, just previewed this post, and would like to point out that it was the automatic filter that put the "1" in the word "sh1t", not me. I would never be so prissy. How quaint! I suppose this means that no-one will know what I actually wrote..... The filtering of "sh...