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Hmmm.. without your broadie buckle, prayer book and bible... hmmm...

Without having tasted the delights of baked beans every day for seven years, having marched to lunch, worn a stinking wet housey coat all through lessons on a cold rainy day, not having had your hair freeze on the way to breakfast in the morning coz it was so cold, not having done dining hall nor house trades, nor having planted your poppy in the Quad on Remembrance Sunday, not having shed a stifled tear at the leaving service, to have got muddy yellow socks from standing on the touch line cheering on the 1st XV as they thrash Charterhouse (Baaaaaaaaa), not having felt oh so naughty walking on the grass in the quad, nor felt that surge of pride singing a stonking hymn like the Foundation Hymn or Jerusalem in Chapel... I'm not sure you can be an Old Blue, even honorary, I'm afraid...

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww pulleeeeeze!!
I will get a broadie buckle off ebay if I have to! (could you tell me what one is please?)

It isn't something that could be conferred lightly. Some of us worked hard and suffered for seven long years to become an Old Blue!!!

Didn't plant my poppy in the quad but I do know what spam fritters tasted like (and russian fish pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Tell me what I have to do and it's done!

AKAP - as Shoz is from your era, perhaps you should define what being an Old Blue for your generation means.

Spam Fritters... mmm... I have vague recolections of those.

I can eat spam by the bucket load, and the vote is split 50 50 up to now. Am I in with a chance......?
Pretty pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

I think you summed it up very well, what amazes me is how little the place changes (all those kids on rock school were there in the 60's just had different names). Even the introduction of mixed sex education dosen't seem to have changed it that much.
Spending the best part of seven years living with your friends rated highly.
But I couldn't persuade my sons that they might enjoy attending.

Is that a yes or a no? lol!

You can join the CHA and wear a funny tie.

OK, if that will lead to an honorary old blue! (Whats the CHA?)

If I can't become an Honorary Leopard (ex Skinners' Company School where my husband went) even if I can name all their houses and sing their school song, then I don't see why we should have Honorary OB's.

Nerrr.

Unfortunately, the 2 options in the poll are extreme... To be an OB is, like Deb said, something we all worked hard for!

Honarary? Possibly... I think you'd have to be initiated first off. And then have to prove yourself. And it wouldn't be easy!

I think you have to convince those in authority that you have a real need, then sit an entrance exam and finally lose a fairly large number of years. Then you can attend the school for about seven years - et voila