Was burglary part of the scouting tradition?Hendrik wrote:no - it's just that we scouts were never deterred by 'closed doors'!Great Plum wrote:Most of the locks used to be pretty 'breakable' and winodws could always be opened...
Last night antics
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Well the doors were never particularly 'closed' were they?Hendrik wrote:no - it's just that we scouts were never deterred by 'closed doors'!Great Plum wrote:Most of the locks used to be pretty 'breakable' and winodws could always be opened...![]()
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!
Yeah, I think my year was the last year that could have a good time on the last night...
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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!
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!
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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!
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yeah, it could have been... I just remember hearing about it. ![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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If it was the Grecians of 2000, they were a year above me - I did my Grecians twice.
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ha! Actually I did... but that wasn't the reason I did my Grecian's twice... it was pretty complicated. ![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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Re: Last night antics
How virtuous we were in the 40s and 50s, compared with this lot!
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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;Richard Ruck wrote:Was burglary part of the scouting tradition?Hendrik wrote:we scouts were never deterred by 'closed doors'!
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 ................
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What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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Re: Last night antics
'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!
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Well, it's good to see that an excellent education wasn't wasted!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!
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