Have any of you got any?
I was told at the City of Norwich School that I could have been Head Boy but for my foray into rather a lot.
The honour went to a son of the deputy head who went on to do rather well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eastman
He was a brilliant bassoon player.
Pranks
I got into serious trouble after a sixth form concert (I wrote most of it).
The Masters had their own bike sheds and they secured their bikes with (mostly) number locks.
I could pick them with ease. Just tug them apart and watch them click into place.
But I did a bit of a swap around. I also retrieved the woodwork master's bike. It was just like a "sit up and beg" Cambridge one with the usual wicker on the handlebars.
After my joke about the call girl and the lampost I produced said conveyance and proceeded to conduct an auction.
I wheeled it out.
What will you bid for this? It was found in the bike shed with "a little basket on it".
I was in the Headmaster's study shortly after.
The Masters had their own bike sheds and they secured their bikes with (mostly) number locks.
I could pick them with ease. Just tug them apart and watch them click into place.
But I did a bit of a swap around. I also retrieved the woodwork master's bike. It was just like a "sit up and beg" Cambridge one with the usual wicker on the handlebars.
After my joke about the call girl and the lampost I produced said conveyance and proceeded to conduct an auction.
I wheeled it out.
What will you bid for this? It was found in the bike shed with "a little basket on it".
I was in the Headmaster's study shortly after.
In my last year of uni, we were a house of five and our other mates from first year lived a block away (four of them). I forget all the examples, but a bit of a prank war started between us ... well, all but the sensible girl over at theirs.
I remember the more 'destructive' stuff like falling buckets of water, rotting carton of milk, dead squirrel. The one I submitted was more subtle. I signed them up for all kinds of potentially embarrassing literature but made the address their neighbours' so they'd have to hand Erik his info about bed wetting, Marc his info about erectile dysfunction, etc. etc.
(Only really works when the neighbours actually know each other, and I think theirs were an older family on one side and seniors on the other side.)
I remember the more 'destructive' stuff like falling buckets of water, rotting carton of milk, dead squirrel. The one I submitted was more subtle. I signed them up for all kinds of potentially embarrassing literature but made the address their neighbours' so they'd have to hand Erik his info about bed wetting, Marc his info about erectile dysfunction, etc. etc.

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But not how to spellSlick wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 9:37 pm I was at school with the grooms brother, Bufty, tremendous bloke. He was head of my house. Buggered me senseless. Still, tought me a lot about life
OK. but I did say "day" and not day and night.
Took me ages to get that done. A uni pal was a mountaneer. He went up the tower like a rocket and dropped a line so that three of us could get up to the clockface.
Globus wrote: Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:10 pmOK. but I did say "day" and not day and night.
Took me ages to get that done. A uni pal was a mountaneer. He went up the tower like a rocket and dropped a line so that three of us could get up to the clockface.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul
Both of us. We were up there on a parapet and a ruddy police car came and parked outside the bookshop right underneath. He was there for ages, eating a sandwich, I think.
We were stuck and the legs started shaking. The old glucose levels had shrunk considerably.
As soon as he drove off, we got down asap. I really wish I'd taken a photo I could share. I've got the newspaper articles somewhere in the loft.
My back is playing up big time. So no ventures up the ladder.