Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:33 pm
Erm pardon?
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Roger Sutcliffe
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:16 pm
Pardon to what?
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:22 pm
Thats whatRuthie-Baby wrote:IYTILTLYWW
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:00 pm
Mr Sutcliffe was my housemaster for a few years after our previous housemaster left for *ahem* things he shouldn't have done. I rememebr his attempts to engage us in philosophical conversations which I didn't really appreciate at the time which now I think was a shame. He was always softly spoken and I think he only shouted once in the 3 years I was in his house, stunning us all into silence. I seem to rememeber someone finding out the hard way one lucnhtime that he could lip read. glad he got rid of the sideburns!
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:08 pm
I wonder what the previous housemaster left for...
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:24 pm
Great Plum wrote:I wonder what the previous housemaster left for...
SO DO I !!!!
I suggest Mr Plum asks the relevant questions on his next visit to parent !
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:39 pm
see post on page 1 of this topicsoc wrote:Thats whatRuthie-Baby wrote:IYTILTLYWW
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:13 pm
Some things are best left unsaid, especially if we don't want to get suedJ.R. wrote:Great Plum wrote:I wonder what the previous housemaster left for...
SO DO I !!!!
I suggest Mr Plum asks the relevant questions on his next visit to parent !
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:02 pm
I can guess what happened...
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:00 am
so long as you put 'allegedly' somewhere in the explanation you should be ok?!
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:50 pm
or "without prejudice" at the top - that's supposed to help
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:07 pm
Could it be a Catholic priest and altar boy syndrome, or possibly a Nabakov 'Lolita' Scenario, ALLEGEDLY !!!
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:31 pm
well...allegedly....without prejudice...single middle aged man....young boys...made page 3 (??) of The Sun with a headline 'Goodbye Mr Chips'. Not sure we ever found out who leaked the story.Great Plum wrote:I wonder what the previous housemaster left for...
Re: Roger Sutcliffe
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:04 pm
Funny, all my friends and family use the phrase "b....er grips" to describe side burns, and all probably due to this guy.srcudlipp wrote:For any of you that wondered what happened to good old Gripper, he can be found alive & well here....
http://www.dialogueworks.co.uk/dw/au.html
If I am right then the grips fashion was around the same time that the word "zob" was in fashion, to describe a certain house master.
Re: Roger Sutcliffe
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:23 pm
"Gripper" was not only my housemaster but also my maths teacher. I remember my heart sinking when i discovered he would be teaching me, but as things worked out he was fantastic, very patient and knew how to get the best out of one as a pupil. The rotating head habit he adopted when listening to you explain why you were a few minutes late used to annoy all of us followed by the "now look here young man" catchphrase, i always found that condescending and was close to replying "yes old man!" He held great respect in the house and certainly more than the previous housemaster, Mr.P.Webb who i think ended up on a houseboat in Norfolk? No doubt with a bottle of whiskey by his side! 
