The Thursday Thought - The days!
Welcome all to the Thursday Thought.
Being my first post on this particular blogger site, I found it a bit puzzling as to what I want to discuss. Excuse the dodgy business phrase, but in search of inspiration, I am hoping to draw on the great wisdom of a certain Mr Paddon and any of his ideas may come to fruition!
This is about our English lessons lower down the school. Thinking of something to type is like I'm at school again, having to write you one of those popular essays set by teachers. You know the ones which intend to waste as much as your time as possible, because the teachers can't be doing with the hassle of actually discipling you. That or they just want to torture you to submission with such essay titles as the inside of a ping-pong ball or the origins of the cocoa bean! Worse still, you may be made to write an essay and hand it in, yeah get this people...on time! Oh how we wept in laughter as our English teacher went through categorically a list of people who hadn't handed their essays in for marking. The dialogue went roughly as follows.
Mr Cropper: So Atif, you still have work to hand in so mark down them as follows.
Atif (in an Ali G accent): but Sir, right, I think I done 'em all...
Mr C: look I have the ones marked down as missing in my book, so where are they?
Atif: I handed 'em in ages ago
Mr C: What, all 10 of them?? (he reels off a great number of titles)
The class laughs in unison with sounds of "all right, aite" Atif smirks and leans back on chair...
Mr C: Right, is that clear Atif (Atif nods in response) Now, next on the list Mr Clarke...6 pieces of work outstanding...
Clarke: (on cue) But Sir, thing is...
Thanks for reading
The ickle Jonah
23 Comments:
Well, that saves me a job. But, a job well done by the sole employee of the Scandal Press, branching out yet again onto yet another blogger site. Marvellous job, Scotty, and I must say it brings all the memories flooding back. The Paddon Cartoons in all their cruel glory, the cackling in the front rows we had, the talks we did, including Clarkey's epic 15 minute journey through a disregarded war, the perversions of Mr Cropper when going through Lord of the Flies and all the laughter.
Thanks for that Scotty!
9:36 pm
lol that was a nice read! thanks scotty! and thank you for not making me feel guilty for not having the time to write anything (or to annoy paul to such an extent to make him finally write something ;p)! :D:D:D
yeah why do teachers always do things like that? but to the essay with the title "inside a tennis ball" I probably would have written that story bout a princes loosing her bal in a well and then kissing a frog only she would have lost a tennis ball and the hole story would have been tolled by the perspective of the poor tennis bal. no need to write much there cus the tennis ball will hit his head and fall unconscious once the princes throws him and he hits his head on the wall of the well ;p lol heheh guess I still do have an imagination ;p
bye bye
bizzzzzzz
Adri
6:54 am
I forgot to mention a few things about those English lessons - Mr Cropper's stories, his obsessions with sexual references in poems and his overall chuckle at the antics of our set. To be fair, it wasn't my favourite subject but the lessons were fun all the same with the doodles (which I still have today) of cartoons, the banter and the moment big Nige fell through the table, which sent shockwaves around the school in both senses of the word!
*Raising glass* ahh the days.
Jonah
2:04 pm
well I'd tell you about my english lessons but I'm afraid none of you might think the analysis of the little hungry caterpillar all that interesting (shame I'm sure we're all missing something ;p)
9:21 pm
english lessons, thank god theres no more of them for me! i'd have killed myself if i had to suffer one more lesson on 'i'm the king of the castle' or as rachael affectionately called it 'i'm the king of the turd' shows how much she enjoyed it. wish i had someone to mess around with in those lessons though, but sadly i was on my own for the most part, apart from the odd conversation with rachael and jenny. but who really cares about the parallel in a poem between a field and a battlefield? thank god for abbie and nat though, without their odd comments i think i wouldn't have survived this long! all we did was work, we didn't get any personal stories, or breaks for that matter, it was writing at 100mph for the full hour and 10 mins! although our teacher wasn't too strict on handing things in, well we barely got hwk, that was the plus side! but i always handed my stuff in on time, being the angel that i am ;P
9:40 pm
You've done the analysis of The Hungry Catterpillar??? Do tell, Miss Ferrari...
10:24 pm
urm well I would the only problem is that I think I was asleep when it was done ;p but I think I tolled you my private interpretation of the book ;p hehehe (hey that wasn't all that bad of one anyways ;p)
xxx
10:30 pm
Scotty, you forgot the Feeder Poem!!!! How could you forget Mr C's one good piece of work, ever! I'm sure he'll be very disappointed in you! And you better give me those doodles, they are going where they belong,(no Paul, not in my stomach!!) on a bombfire!!! I'd like to congratualte Scotty on such a wonderful piece of writing, and i think next Thursday should involve another piece of writing about our wonderful time at that place. Although the memories will not be as good as those English classes, especially with Petes essay on Jigsaws!!!!!!!
The thought of it all, just brings a tear to my eye *goes to hide in his corner*
1:11 am
YAY! *jumps up in the air as high as he can possibly spring* What a response to the Thursday Thought! I knew it could be decent and the suggestions are brilliant. Maybe we can look at some of the other memories of our school time or our fav/worse lessons...dare I choose Physics next!? hehe
Answers on a postcard to this site...
Jonah
p.s. postcard must say in catchy handwriting - Wish you were here!
1:22 am
But what is there to say about a teacher that sends you to sleep? Even now! We could always talk about the german lessons(although you werent there for the amazing rip takes of Ede and Mo in KMH's set!), lots to say about James and those. And then theres the French lessons(although we werent there for the "J'habite a Ben" saga) We have Mr Whittens amazing stories in History, plus i'm sure you can think of some other stories
1:29 am
"But what is there to say about a teacher that sends you to sleep?" umm yeah I'd like to know the answer to that question as well! then I'd finally have a response to my mum's q (how was school) ;p
Addy
8:14 pm
**chough** umm not that I've actually ever fallen asleep in school ;p
(well apart from history, religion, english, physics umm and maybe a few other classes ;p)
Addy
**halo**
8:15 pm
"Is IT rue that....."
"It says in my book that..."
Sorry Moe flashbacks uhhhh!
8:53 pm
..um ...right **eyebrow raised** **looks around** is ther anyone else out that who gathers as much meaning behind that out of those few lines as myself or am I just being left out? ;p
9:03 pm
No Adriana, let me explain. They are comments form a certain wannabe smart-ass called Moh, whose favourite thing " ya know, jus' to wind the teacher up" was to quote facts from his text books, and then just ask...."is it TRUE that, erm...."
Slightly annoying after the 5th time of asking each lesson!
Jonah
9:10 pm
lol heheheheheh sounds like a great guy!!! (no wonder I fall asleep in school ;p)
9:18 pm
There are far too many memories of lessons to try and fit them into one post, let alone a series of posts. Good luck with this one Scotty!
And I've progressed from those feeble little sketches, you'll be pleased to know Chris. Just wait for the feature length film in 2050! It's sure to be a hit!
An don't mention Mo. I'd manage to get that line out my head at long last. There's some painful flashbacks there!
Perhaps the best was Danny's story about the cocoa bean that we passed around chemistry, all adding a line or two. Pure class there. Mind you, we did function well as a team!
8:31 pm
Just thinking about that Paul. With my sketeches and yours combined, we could compose a feature length film with special effects on the movement of the chubby chappy in full flight after being shot out of a cannon! Ahh, our imaginations went wild...instead of listening to random talks about para-rhyme!
Jonah
10:17 pm
only if I'm allowed to be the director (wouldn't want to leave me out now would you? **innocent doggy eyes**)
xxx
10:30 pm
James, Mr C. (or anyone else who can remember) could you please sum up the moment when Mr Cropper started trying, perhaps failing, to explain what para-rhyme meant?
Jonah
11:18 am
oh god, JUST NO para-rhyme is a literary term that basically means that if there is no rhyme then is it para-rhyme. we took the piss soo much out of it. it was are blanket term.
11:24 am
Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I’m thinking of the days
I won’t forget a single day believe me
Those lyrics fit so well, don't ya think?
4:00 pm
lol that's brilliant!! I think that that will be able to sum up my days perfectly ...**sniff** when I'm finally though with the torture!! Grahhh you lucky devils!
4:32 pm
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