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Some questions about today's CH
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:20 pm
by shoz
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Re: Some questions about today's CH
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:29 pm
by Richard Ruck
shoz wrote: The cuff buttons are also symbolic of status: if the outer button is unfastened on both cuffs then the boys is an academic; if one is unfastened he is both academic and monitor. If neither is unfastened the boy in question is only a monitor.' Is this still true?
Do you have a school cat? If so, what is its name?
Re. buttons - I had my (academic) buttons in 1978 - never heard of this one....
Re. cat - are you being serious??
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:02 pm
by Sergiu Panaite
The buttons thing was still semi-true, though people interpreted it as they wanted to more. A few people on my year (myself included) had two undone on each arm, for no reason whatsoever really except that it apparently looked better or something. Kids, eh?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:55 pm
by shoz
Richard Ruck wrote:Re. cat - are you being serious??
Yes I am, many schools have cats to keep mice at bay, particularly in old buildings.
Re: Some questions about today's CH
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:53 pm
by Richard Ruck
shoz wrote:Do you have to make your own beds; who changes them?
Shoz, if you were obliged to make an inspired guess here, what would your answer be?
Go on, have a go!
You really are trying to construct a rather detailed picture, aren't you?
Re: Some questions about today's CH
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:20 pm
by sport!
shoz wrote:Can anyone please answer these questions in relation to CH as it is now?
Do you have a school cat? If so, what is its name?
I think you are getting confused with Hogwarts.
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:21 am
by Great Plum
I thought the colour yellow got rid of the rats!
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:31 am
by Rory
How well informed... the colour yellow is certainly not a rat's favourite.
I think there was a study carried out in Japan once on this very topic - maybe you were involved in the research. Anyway - the bottom line seems to be that the colour yellow causes diarrhoea and then eventually wrecks the rat's liver. Poor little things....
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:34 am
by Richard Ruck
Rory wrote:Anyway - the bottom line seems to be that the colour yellow causes diarrhoea and then eventually wrecks the rat's liver. Poor little things....
I'd better remember that when I'm next at The French House supping Ricard!
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:40 am
by Great Plum
I believe that is why the colour yellow is used so priminently in the sock colour... in London they were hung at the end of the beds to keep the rats away...
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:52 pm
by Hendrik
Rory wrote:How well informed... the colour yellow is certainly not a rat's favourite.
I think there was a study carried out in Japan once on this very topic - maybe you were involved in the research. Anyway - the bottom line seems to be that the colour yellow causes diarrhoea and then eventually wrecks the rat's liver. Poor little things....
how did they know all this in 1552? had japan even been invented then?
Re: Some questions about today's CH
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:51 pm
by Richard Ruck
shoz wrote:post withdrawn
Well that's no fun, is it?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:15 pm
by J.R.
Very Strange !
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:58 pm
by Vonny
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:53 pm
by Moulam
the undoing of the cuff buttons still applies, none is a monitor, one is both academic and monitor and both is just academic.
there is no school cat as far as i am aware, (modern days therefroe no mice (i wish!)!)
from what i was told by the museum on my second form the yellow was not for rats, as the rumours say, but because onion dye was the cheapest available at the time so it was used and has stayed. i do not know which is true, just telling you what i have been told.
anyway i find that a big boot up the rear end, or a pellet gun keeps the rats away better than any cheap dye!!!!!!