Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Any literary talent out there?
Try writing a limerick about CH. If no one else posts I'll just keep adding to it myself from time to time when I'm on the forum and nothing else appeals. When I've had aenough I'll get the topic deleted.
Here's one to start it off:


Praise the Lord for the good old foundation
And abjure any hint of vexation
Whatever I mean
In the lines in between
Could be something that's lost in translation.

Well, good idea - but 21 people have looked in and no one is helping you out! So, here I go.

CH is a school I know well
There're so many tales I could tell,
Of things that went on,
But now that I've gone
I don't need to focus on . . . . a place that I found extraordinarily difficult to cope with.



I'll try and write a nice one soon, in keeping with the CH ethos, if I can work out what it is.

Just saw yours rebel after my edit. Must have been telepathy. Hope you add more.

rebel wrote:I'll try and write a nice one soon, in keeping with the CH ethos, if I can work out what it is.

Nice dig! Keep em coming.....
(not a literary bone in my body - Maths/Physics/Chemistry - so I'll leave this thread to the literarily equiped!)

J

there was a small Council of toffs
who manged money (as were seen to be boffs)
but with their damned 'Master Plan'
it all went down the pan
and now the school's running at loss!

dire, i know. but not bad for 3mins effort!

Perhaps there will be more suggestions if we lower the tone a bit.

So -

Remember the school song, our ‘Votum’?
The words – all in Latin they wrote ’em,
I’ve taken much time
To find a nice rhyme
But all I can think of is – well, we used to call it that, anyway…..

sorry, you're right. it's just that the thread i read before this one was the rather 'emotive' masterplan one, and it was all that i could think of.

The users of 'Christ's Hospital Forum',
liked the topics but sometimes they bored 'em.
Thus some Old Blues were sods,
so lamented the mods;
'Dear Lord please, let us have some decorum!'

there you go, an apology for my rather fiery limerick, in limerick form! oh the joys of a classical education....

Lower the tone ? OK, given they're limericks! - but I'll have to overcome all the CH training re 'low tones' - and Julian's ethos directives! I know some people don't think they're really limericks unless they're bawdy - so see what you can get away with!

I'll try to get with it later, but for the moment here's my today's effort.

There once was a school of some note
Where no one liked rocking the boat
The consequence was
Very dismal because
It made any changes remote.

OK, thread author has given permission to be bawdy, rock on.

That limerick was awesome. In rhyme (perfect), in rhythym (flawless) and the content was sheer brilliance. Best so far IMHO. Eagerly awaiting next one.

Come on you lot! It's rhyme time[ ]...

helen wrote:There once was a school of some note
Where no one liked rocking the boat
The consequence was
Very dismal because
It made any changes remote.

By far the best so far......
J

Oh, dear, I'm quite overcome with the applause blush blush.
Now here's one in the mildly bawdyvein, although the line between bawdy and vulgar/bad taste might be something for another topic. I'm sure Julian will referee.

At Hertford the girls were required
To wear 'underwear' hardly inspired,
It gave no support
In the places it ought
So the contents were never admired.

Looks like that's put a plug in it. Perhaps they couldn't take it in spite of their encouragement to 'lower the tone'.Here's my latest, not specifically about CH but re this thread.


If limericks are to be lewd
You'll sometimes offend the odd prude
When all's said and done
They can't be much fun
If you always avoid being crude.

If Old Blues were cheerful and proud,
of a school that was old and endowed,
They'd even enjoy
all the rules that annoy
on a forum that's there for the crowd.

This applies to the Hertford era. I guess things are different now.

Our uniforms all were designed
To keep us from vain turns of mind
And some of us tried
But we couldn't decide
If they looked worse in front or behind.