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» Your Weirdest Teacher
Poor Mrs Bovington...
The only Cornish teacher in a school full of young Yorkshire miscreants.
God knows how it started, I suspect it's fallen into legend, but for some reason it became known that she really hated the phrase "I 'erd that!", as said in a ridiculous Cornish accent. Which of course, pupils took great joy in saying around her.
I don't know quite what it was that she couldn't ignore or laugh off as childish schoolboy comments, but that phrase got to her like nothing else. Someone I know was standing on a street near our school when he saw her driving past with her window open, so when she had passed he yelled at the top of his voice, in a customarily ridiculous Cornish accent, "I 'ERD THAT!"
The car pulled over.
The shoutee decided it might not be a good idea to stick around, so fled the area rather quickly. But that's how much it annoyed her.
By the time I was in my final year at that school, she was clearly paranoid about it. She used to hussle people up against the walls accusing them of saying it to her and saying that it was "harrassment" and that she would take them to the headmaster. Nobody took her at all seriously until finally, one person was actually excluded for saying it, which shocked the school population. Into large fits of laughter, that she was taking it so seriously...
From then on she used to continue to hussle people up against the wall when she thought she'd 'erd that, often saying with a twisted grin that she'd already got one person excluded from school for uttering "that phrase" as she called it, and that she would have no problems with doing it again.
Shortly before I left that school, I heard her saying to someone that she would go to the police about it next time, as it was harrassment, and for all I know she might be giving a statement right now!
So here's to you, Mrs Bovington. Jesus loves you more than you will know...
(Wed 9th Nov 2005, 14:36, More)
Poor Mrs Bovington...
The only Cornish teacher in a school full of young Yorkshire miscreants.
God knows how it started, I suspect it's fallen into legend, but for some reason it became known that she really hated the phrase "I 'erd that!", as said in a ridiculous Cornish accent. Which of course, pupils took great joy in saying around her.
I don't know quite what it was that she couldn't ignore or laugh off as childish schoolboy comments, but that phrase got to her like nothing else. Someone I know was standing on a street near our school when he saw her driving past with her window open, so when she had passed he yelled at the top of his voice, in a customarily ridiculous Cornish accent, "I 'ERD THAT!"
The car pulled over.
The shoutee decided it might not be a good idea to stick around, so fled the area rather quickly. But that's how much it annoyed her.
By the time I was in my final year at that school, she was clearly paranoid about it. She used to hussle people up against the walls accusing them of saying it to her and saying that it was "harrassment" and that she would take them to the headmaster. Nobody took her at all seriously until finally, one person was actually excluded for saying it, which shocked the school population. Into large fits of laughter, that she was taking it so seriously...
From then on she used to continue to hussle people up against the wall when she thought she'd 'erd that, often saying with a twisted grin that she'd already got one person excluded from school for uttering "that phrase" as she called it, and that she would have no problems with doing it again.
Shortly before I left that school, I heard her saying to someone that she would go to the police about it next time, as it was harrassment, and for all I know she might be giving a statement right now!
So here's to you, Mrs Bovington. Jesus loves you more than you will know...
(Wed 9th Nov 2005, 14:36, More)
» Best Comebacks
Some guy called 'Jimbob' at college
had been pissing me off the coach to/from a trip, and was making fun of me for drinking ginger beer (which i'm rather partial to), saying it as cockney rhyming slang - "ginger beer - queer". Somehow i immediately thought and said "Jimbob - nob". He couldn't think of anything to reply with and left me alone for the rest of the trip :P
(Fri 30th Apr 2004, 17:41, More)
Some guy called 'Jimbob' at college
had been pissing me off the coach to/from a trip, and was making fun of me for drinking ginger beer (which i'm rather partial to), saying it as cockney rhyming slang - "ginger beer - queer". Somehow i immediately thought and said "Jimbob - nob". He couldn't think of anything to reply with and left me alone for the rest of the trip :P
(Fri 30th Apr 2004, 17:41, More)
» Impromptu Games You Play
The Michael Fish Game
My dad and I have been playing the Michael Fish game for donkey's years. It starts by one of us saying "Michael Fish". The other then has to say "Michael X" where X is something that relates to the previous word, either in meaning or phonetically. The first person does likewise. Words cannot be repeated (except Michael, which is there for show). The aim of the game can be one of two things:
In the long game, the aim is to try and make the other person go back to Michael Fish by giving them nowhere else to go (getting all sealife out of the way early on helps to achieve this, but it still takes ages).
In the short game, the aim is to be the person who gets back to Michael Fish, which you cannot do until the topic has firmly and clearly left sealife at the start.
Do try the long one on long plane journeys, it makes the time just fly by!
Nobody in the family is quite sure where the Michael Fish game came from, but it was most likely something my dad thought up on the spot once upon a time. Now it can be started while we're on any journey by simply mentioning the name ;)
(Wed 31st Mar 2004, 18:53, More)
The Michael Fish Game
My dad and I have been playing the Michael Fish game for donkey's years. It starts by one of us saying "Michael Fish". The other then has to say "Michael X" where X is something that relates to the previous word, either in meaning or phonetically. The first person does likewise. Words cannot be repeated (except Michael, which is there for show). The aim of the game can be one of two things:
In the long game, the aim is to try and make the other person go back to Michael Fish by giving them nowhere else to go (getting all sealife out of the way early on helps to achieve this, but it still takes ages).
In the short game, the aim is to be the person who gets back to Michael Fish, which you cannot do until the topic has firmly and clearly left sealife at the start.
Do try the long one on long plane journeys, it makes the time just fly by!
Nobody in the family is quite sure where the Michael Fish game came from, but it was most likely something my dad thought up on the spot once upon a time. Now it can be started while we're on any journey by simply mentioning the name ;)
(Wed 31st Mar 2004, 18:53, More)
» Pet Names
Go on then
When i was younger, we had a rabbit that we renamed Houdini, because it somehow had an ability to unlock its cage and jump out. We used to keep them in the garage where they were sheltered, and we used to find it hiding behind something on the floor in the morning. We never understood how!
A giant padlock and reinforced cage soon sorted that one out, but the name stuck.
(Fri 27th Feb 2004, 1:25, More)
Go on then
When i was younger, we had a rabbit that we renamed Houdini, because it somehow had an ability to unlock its cage and jump out. We used to keep them in the garage where they were sheltered, and we used to find it hiding behind something on the floor in the morning. We never understood how!
A giant padlock and reinforced cage soon sorted that one out, but the name stuck.
(Fri 27th Feb 2004, 1:25, More)