Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
True story.
When I was teaching at DGSB and still had my yacht one of my colleagues asked if I could take him and his two sons out sailing.
We spent a while tacking backwards and forwards in the harbour and everyone having lifejackets I suggested we departed the Western Entrance for an hour 'at sea'.
Lovely sunny day and my colleague had fallen fast asleep when one of the kids said 'Mr F, I think I'm going to be sick'.
Told him to puke downwind and the poor little bugger turned puce and tried to turn himself inside-out.
Once things had settled I told him not to worry as Nelson had been sick most days at sea.
'What! Nelson Mandela?' he replied.
As I said true story.
1. WTF are they teaching in History nowadays?
2. What are they teaching in Geography? How longs the sodding crossing to Robben Island?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,075
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Well, I think what's called for is: Horatio the musical. Certainly one would have a number of genres to choose from.
(Not my real name.)
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Lloyd George knew my father. My father knew Lloyd George.
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
I was chatting to a work colleague a few years ago and we were talking about the Berlin Wall and our experiences of it. A much younger colleague overheard and asked what the Berlin Wall was!
I also met Princess Anne a couple of weeks ago and when I told my 15 year old what I'd done, he replied " who is she"........and he goes to DGSB!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
I met the lovely Princess Alice who was the Duke of Edinburgh's mother many years ago, but to widen the subject a little.
Worryingly I have noticed when watching almost any quiz show the number of times teachers do not know the answer to the simplest general knowledge question.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 106
I am a Norfolk man and glory in being so
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
How I Wrote Elastic Man wrote:I am a Norfolk man and glory in being so
How do you feel about heights and pigeons?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
"Normal for Norfolk - or NFN - most likely came from doctors to indicate the patient betrayed a peasant or rustic streak, or as a form of exasperation with patients who couldn't describe their symptoms."
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
We watched Family Fortunes the other night and one of the questions was ' Name a famous Dame'. The two teenage boys in the family admitted that they didn't even know what a 'dame' was! - Honestly!
Jan Higgins likes this
Life without a dog is like a salad without lettuce.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes I saw that .
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Edna.
(Not my real name.)
How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 106
#9
As it goes, not that keen on heights!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
Christopher Biggins?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 106
I don't believe Mr Biggins is one of us
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
Renowned pantomime dame though?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 106
I only think of him as lukewarm
