chaosriddenyears wrote:[quote="Kim2s70-77"
Kim, was it you who wrote "sausages" or some such word in every sentence in physics prep because rumour had it that the teacher never bothered much about what we wrote? I seem to remember that rumour did not lie on this occasion.
I don't remember that one, although it is entirely possible - but I do remember Miss Riddiford was always game for some diversions in German class. She loved it if we took her off topic for some reminiscing etc and she was always the first to play German Bingo or sing Carols in German (end of term sorts of things) WAY before other teachers relaxed their strictness. She would always take great delight in BOOMING "Glucklische Geburtstag" (apologies for spelling, Lynn!) whenever someone had a birthday and this was a great diversionary tactic, especially from Fridays' vocab. tests. Having a birthday in August, I always felt gypped on the 'celebration with friends' front - so took it into my head that I was going to invent a birthday one Friday in order to a) avoid the vocab test that I hadn't learned b) GET SOME ATTENTION! and c) obtain the Birthday pencil that she kindly bestowed (what little crumbs we lived for!!). This was so successful a diversion that I repeated it the following Friday and the next successive 6 or 8 subsequent Fridays! I snagged quite a collection of pencils and had a gay old time. Whether she was really that vague - or just plain indulgent, I'll never know!!
Were you the other frontman, Lynn for the Great German/Latin class switch???? We wanted to see if the 'vaguer' teachers really paid attention (maybe 3rd form??) and so those who took german went to Mr Upton's latin class and the Latinites went to Miss Riddiford. I volunteered to translate a passage for DGS Upton - and I think the game was up by the time I had stammered through "The soldiers advance, wriggling on their bellies........." and he said something about "Bellum being 'war' ,not 'bellies'"..........and then, for the first time looked up, peered over his glasses at me and said in a confused tone, "aaahh..do I know you?????" What fun! We also used to get Wendy Jones to switch ties with her twin and put Barbara's glasses on, and play great tricks with those teachers who couldn't tell the difference. What little things delighted us!