Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I will explore more in August when the French head south and leave the rest of France to the tourists.

When most of them head south but leave the elderly in Paris to melt...

Yvelines - where Versailles is, if I'm not mistaken?

J.R. - have you nicked my Dad's jokes?

That just made me remember, one of the most brilliant, memorable and clever 'jokes' here was made by your dad on the first day of my squits.

I was lucky enough to have him for English on my 2nd form, and in our very first lesson, we were there waiting for ...

Lucky lucky you.
How long have you lived there? Do you ever get bored of it?
We've spent a couple of weeks every summer for as long as I can remember near the Place des Vosges, such a beautiful and relatively little-known place by visitors. I always think of it when I'm in the Garden Quad for some ...

So two of the old blues married then? That's really nice.

I'd crash my computer if I named everything that Robbie Kirkland stole. [allegedly - Ed]

Gosh.
Nice to see the CCTV is working in a positive manner.

He was actually stupid enough to be caught in the act by a member of staff!
But the CCTV has been something in the refurbished houses that has been a good success; a number of people who have brains small enough to do things like open ...

There was also a musician in residence about 3 or 4 years ago who got sacked after he was caught stealing in one of the boarding houses.

Dr. Maddren still used this trick as late as between about 1999 and 2001, when he came back to Peele B as a house tutor. There were things like ten pound notes or CDs dotted blatantly around the house, and it seemed to work, but I don't know if anyone got caught doing it, because everyone was warned ...

A couple more courtroom howlers from a book called 'The World's Stupidest Laws':

Q: Was it you or your wife that was murdered?
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Q: So you have three children, is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: How many of them are boys?
A: None.
Q: Are there any girls ...

Are you NOT allowed your personal lap-tops at school ??????

Yes we are, but we're not allowed to connect them to the school network, and therefore the internet.

Maybe he wanted to play some Abba music

Well it looked like the staff thanked him for the music. Does his mother know?

There was a theory recently that he was some Czech man who'd disappeared - until he came on Czech TV to prove that he was not the Piano Man!
He drew a Swedish flag as well as a piano - why do they not seem to have enquired up there?

So...what were your feelings and reactions?

Two cringing ones courtesy of John Humphrys on 'Today'.

What type of pie can fly?
A magpie!

Why is there no aspirin in the jungle?
Because the parrots-et-'em-all!