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Some questions about today's CH part 2
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:42 pm
by Richard Ruck
Can anyone help me with the following question, please?
I saw in a film entitled "The Meaning of Life" a scene in which the headmaster of a public school announces that "a boy has been caught rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant".
Do all boarding schools have a cormorant?
Does Christ's Hospital have one, and, if so, how long is its beak? And is it still an offence to oil the cormorant?
If it is, I would be grateful if somebody could provide precise details of the applicable punishments.
Thank-you.
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:44 pm
by Great Plum
Oh you sarcastic man you....
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:49 pm
by Richard Ruck
You flatter me...!
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:23 am
by Rory
RR - a wonderful post and definately one of your finer moments on this thing - well done.
But its good that you mention cormorants. Over here - they're a big thing and very favoured - down in Yangshuo there's a gang of cormorants that go fishing - they're quite famous. However - ironically they fish in the Li river - not "the river full of fish".
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:46 am
by Richard Ruck
Ah, another 'Python' moment!
"Oh Yangtze, oh Yangtze! River full of........fish!"
I'm trying to remember the song, now.....
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:53 am
by Rory
can't help you there I'm afraid....
that's the only line I remember...
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:25 pm
by J.R.
Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:27 pm
by Richard Ruck
J.R. wrote:Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
Aaaaaarrrrgh!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:12 pm
by Emma Jane
Richard Ruck wrote:J.R. wrote:Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
Aaaaaarrrrgh!!!
Hahahahaha!
Probably the funniest thing I've heard all day
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:32 am
by J.R.
Emma Jane wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:J.R. wrote:Talking of cormorants, I suppose a shag's out of the question ?
Aaaaaarrrrgh!!!
Hahahahaha!
Probably the funniest thing I've heard all day
Glad to see you're easily amused !
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:46 am
by Great Plum
J.R. wrote:Emma Jane wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:
Aaaaaarrrrgh!!!
Hahahahaha!
Probably the funniest thing I've heard all day
Glad to see you're easily amused !
Well, she is a student!
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:39 am
by Rory
and possibly pissed...
and the author of the post is 50 something....
(altho it did make me smile a bit)
Allegedly the shag drops its crest when it has mated.
How would that fit in with Old Blues???
And shags are green...
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:42 am
by DavebytheSea
Great Plum wrote:
Well, she is a student!
No she's not - she's a nun (she said so but I don't know how to do multiple quotes from different sources) ...... wel may be a sort of student nun.
Isn't that called a protestant? or is DebGP getting me completely confused??
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:44 am
by Richard Ruck
Rory wrote:and possibly pissed...
In the context of this thread, how about "well-oiled"?
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:59 am
by englishangel
Not today's CH but from the rules at Hertford.
When can you NOT have a picnic in the school grounds?