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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:54 am
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
Scone Lover wrote:I turned up at CH, a shy only child who was frighteningly innocent to the ways of the world. My mum had covered me in cotton wool since my father died (Iwas 6 months old) and so I thought that everything that happened to me was unique.
Imagine my shock when I found that there were other people who shared my birthday and that one of them was my nurse-maid!
Add to that the fact that at CH everyone gets to punch you the same number of times that is your house number on your birthday. How charming is that! Thank the Gods of fortune that I was Maine B 7.
I think I was sent to CH
because I was a shy only child.
Like you I learned fast...
Lucky Col B didn't have the same punching routine because I was Col B 49!
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:37 pm
by blondie95
I went as a very niave girl who didnt think she was much to look at or talk to.....now look what happpend-you cant shut me up
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:26 pm
by huntertitus
In my day the shyest of the kids often seemed to have the hardest time
I was totally ignorant of the facts of life as was my poor brother and in those days someone would inevitably come up to you on your first day and ask if you are a prostitute
My bro said yes and had to endure people screaming "Prosty Thomson Tuppence-a-go!" at him during rugger matches. For some reason I gave the correct answer. It was a 50-50 chance for both of us.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:34 pm
by Scone Lover
When I was there you spent the first 3 years in junior houses
Leigh Hunt A / B
Maine A / B
Barnes A / B
Then you went up to senior houses
Lamb A / B
Coleridge A / B
Middleton A / B
Thornton A / B
Peele A / B
Luckily birthday punching didn't continue in senior end, I was Mid B 32
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:01 pm
by huntertitus
Same for me and my 2 brothers
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:06 pm
by Scone Lover
How far apart in age are you and your brothers?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:08 pm
by DavebytheSea
Scone Lover wrote:When I was there you spent the first 3 years in junior houses
Leigh Hunt A / B
Maine A / B
Barnes A / B
Then you went up to senior houses
A strange aberration in the school's educational thinking that lasted even a shorter time than sending the girls off to Hertford for a bit.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:11 pm
by Scone Lover
what was the score when you were there?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:17 pm
by DavebytheSea
Scone Lover wrote:what was the score when you were there?
thirty-six nil.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:23 pm
by Scone Lover
I thought you said you don't make jokes
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:29 pm
by DavebytheSea
Scone Lover wrote:I thought you said you don't make jokes
I don't. I have this on the highest authority from Warren Mitchell (Alf Garnett) himself:
viewtopic.php?p=14718&highlight=jokes#14718
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:54 pm
by huntertitus
Scone Lover wrote:How far apart in age are you and your brothers?
Oldest Nov 5 1955
Me Sep 15 1958
Youngest Sep 15 1960
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:55 pm
by Scone Lover
that puts your youngest brother on my year then! I was at CH with your brother?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:00 pm
by cj
huntertitus wrote:Oldest Nov 5 1955
Me Sep 15 1958
Youngest Sep 15 1960
Was it a pain having to share a birthday with your youngest brother?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:00 pm
by huntertitus
Go to memberlist at the top of the page
Click on total posts
Look at number 21
That's my little brother
Theres a sort of corpse there too
Your first incarnation
And you will not tell why you are in your second one now, will you!