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good question

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the tube did raise and fall a bit, but I never found a "lower level" of the tube. To be honest considering the fairly robust way in which the tube and most of the rest of the buildings were constructed I suspect a lower level is out of the question.

Because of the problems with there being a second big hole under the foundations of all the boarding houses, the fact that a lower level would have been even more costly (and CH has never been fond of spending money just for the sake of it) and the fact that the tube floods so easily all gave me the impression that there was no "lower level".

On a totally practical point what exactly would a lower level be for?
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Well, that's what I thought - but it was what the rumours were...
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i always thought that there were lower elvels that just carried loads more pipes and stuff, but i never saw any and to be honst i really didnt like teh tube, always seemed so wierd and freaky.
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I heard that the military did chemical research on a group of UF in the 60's which caused incredible mutations. They sealed them into the lower level of the tube, where their hideous grandchildren remain today. Occasionally one of them escapes, but they're usually rounded up quickly, subjected to mind-control drugs, and made to spend the rest of their lives in forced labour as as a "bokker".
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i heard something similar, they were called the 'Seriously Mutilated Test-patients', later abbreviated, and served a much more key role within CH.
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smt

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Does the School Masonic Temple still run stuff? What ever happened to Bob Sillet?

That man was way too connected. He is seriously scary
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BTW the school has a long tradition of chemical jokes. In my day the science crowd would mix up some elixir that would explode when put on hot radiators after a short delay. Scared the bejeezus (originally typed something else there) out of whoever was walking past at the time.
Only just caught up with this. It was something made with potassium permanganate. It actually exploded on contact also. Michael Cherniavsky (junior housemaster in LaA) always put his hand on the radiator when he came into the dayroom for house prayers between 1st and 2nd prep. Naturally he was a frequent target but never learnt.
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I well remember Cherniavsky - I had him for history for a while. He was promoted to Housemaster of BaB - shock of curly hair and somewhat distracted manner. I believe he is now deceased. Nice guy. Man you go back....
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Man you go back....
Don't remind me...

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Lamma looker wrote:
Man you go back....
Don't remind me...

It's surprising what comes crawling out of the memory banks.
No kidding - I'd rather not remember some of it though. Was not always happy, unlike our childhood summers which I KNOW were sunny.
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menace wrote:
No kidding - I'd rather not remember some of it though. Was not always happy, unlike our childhood summers which I KNOW were sunny.
But it always rained on Sundays...
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in all seriousness though, when i was at CH i did notice just how much it rained on sundays. anyone know why? :? :?:
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I might be clutching at straws here, but maybe it was coincidence??!??? :roll:
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Michael Cherniavsky

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menace wrote:I well remember Cherniavsky - I had him for history for a while. He was promoted to Housemaster of BaB - shock of curly hair and somewhat distracted manner. I believe he is now deceased.
A nice obituary of Michael Cherniavsky by Michael Craton (MA 43-49) is here: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoipa/Gaz ... herniavsky
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at CH i did notice just how much it rained on sundays. anyone know why?
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