Last night antics

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri May 20, 2005 2:24 pm

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?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri May 20, 2005 2:24 pm

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'!

not just the midnight band, your year seemed to be the last year to do all kinds of cool stuff.
though to be fair, you did make the most of it, iirc!

Well the doors were never particularly 'closed' were they?

Yeah, I think my year was the last year that could have a good time on the last night...

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Fri May 20, 2005 4:59 pm

not so much burglary, as 'breaking and entering', only without the 'breaking'. so if all we ever did was 'enter', are we really criminals?
[sweats profusely]

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri May 20, 2005 5:00 pm

Of course not Hendrik!

JimmyB · Post by **JimmyB** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:14 am

I remember waking up on the last day one year to find Mr Marlowe's bike threaded over a lamp-post. Genius!
Gladding's mini in a bush was standard practice...
On my last night, amongst other things, we moved the pool table out from the club into the middle of the avenue in the quad - turns out there's quite a camber on that piece of road!
Oh, and when four of us attempted to lift a car at the back of dining hall, we went for a little run when Rick the nightwatchman chased us up and down the back ave for an hour or so!

Jobaker · Post by **Jobaker** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:09 pm

I remember when the year above (I think) stole a sheep from one of the surrounding fields and dumped it in quad. There was talk of that for ages after!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:06 pm

Jobaker wrote:I remember when the year above (I think) stole a sheep from one of the surrounding fields and dumped it in quad. There was talk of that for ages after!

I thought that was a couple of yearrs above you - I know who did that!

Jobaker · Post by **Jobaker** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:22 pm

yeah, it could have been... I just remember hearing about it.

If it was the Grecians of 2000, they were a year above me - I did my Grecians twice.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:54 am

Twas the Grecians of 2000 - if you want to know who did it, PM me...

Well you must have enjoyed your Grecians then!

Jobaker · Post by **Jobaker** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:11 am

ha! Actually I did... but that wasn't the reason I did my Grecian's twice... it was pretty complicated.

Nyort · Post by **Nyort** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:22 pm

I remember last year, one of the leaving GE from Thorn A made a list of stuff he had to do before he left. His last night job was to take a dump on Dr Connor's (the deputy head) car. He took a picture of it as well. Consigned to Thorn legend that was!

viejoazul · Post by **viejoazul** » Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:35 am

How virtuous we were in the 40s and 50s, compared with this lot!

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Sun Apr 05, 2015 6:30 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
Hendrik wrote:we scouts were never deterred by 'closed doors'!
Was burglary part of the scouting tradition?

No but........ no - it's just the one occasion when Mr Eagle didn't turn up to remove the padlock on the store where the high jump and hurdles equipment was stored and there was a large crowd waiting to train. Scout training to the fore;
Be prepared, that's the Boy Scouts marching song.
Be prepared , don't solic******** etc (If you were a scout you know the rest, if not you don't want to know what the university professor said)

That was a dead easy padlock to open ................

Fjgrogan · Post by **Fjgrogan** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:12 am

'Be prepared' - I was never a scout although the rest of my family were - I was heavily into Guiding both at school and thereafter. However you have quoted my favourite Tom Lehrer song, and I see no problem with quoting the line in full 'Don't solicit for your sister; it's not nice, unless you get a good percentage of her price' - it's just that you can't convey a tone of voice on paper! Note to self - must re-read Scouting for Boys - I seem to remember that BP expressed a number of opinions that have been found somewhat dubious in retrospect!

Ajarn Philip · Post by **Ajarn Philip** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:11 am

Nyort wrote:I remember last year, one of the leaving GE from Thorn A made a list of stuff he had to do before he left. His last night job was to take a dump on Dr Connor's (the deputy head) car. He took a picture of it as well. Consigned to Thorn legend that was!

Well, it's good to see that an excellent education wasn't wasted!

I expect the perpetrator is thriving in the world of politics...

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