MIKE STEWART
- Buller Jeffries (art) cry of "Go to the Head" (Mr Mills)
- "Come her laddie boy, I am going to beat you!" I can still feel the impact of Brian Naysmith's dreaded slipper.
Dr Traynor (English) would frequently cry out in genuine anguish: "Barbarous, Portsmouth-English pronunciation!" after being subjected to grotesquely mangled efforts which would have made even television's Officer Crabtree (of Allo Allo fame) cringe! - Craig Barlow's (History) favourite imposition was "Punishment for conduct prejudicial to good order and scholastic discipline". So impressed was I by this magnificent example of the English language that I actually imposed it myself at times upon pupils in my charge when - for my sins - I entered the noble profession.
- We were encouraged not to waste writing paper during Jack Thomas's history lessons: "Concise and small writing, boys, save paper - write Gy for Germany...."
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