whats the point - Page 6

Acrylic-bob · 25-02-2005, 17:41

The biggest yawnfest I had to endure at school was Crane's The Red Badge Of Courage. It was made into a film with Audie Murphy, which was, if anything, even more stultifyingly boring! At college we were made to read Aristophanes' play The Frogs, I couldn't stay awake. But the next day we were asked to perform the play, and we could not stop laughing. Funny innit?

lindsay ormerod · 25-02-2005, 17:46

I once [genuinely] forgot to take in some English homework and was given 500 lines by teacher. [Moorhead circa 1982]
Whilst sat at home that evening doing the said lines my father asked what I was doing.I explained and he promptly threw the 10 or so lines in the bin and said I should do no more. He accompanied me to school the following morning and berated my teacher for giving me lines to do;"if you need to give her something to write make it a bloody essay;you are supposed to be teaching her English!"
Dad was a lecturer in English at the college and had a more "modern" outlook to teaching!

Acrylic-bob · 25-02-2005, 17:57

And quite right too. Any subject is interesting, it is the way that it is presented that turns people off (this obviously does not apply to The Red Badge of Courage, there is nothing that would redeem that).

yerself · 25-02-2005, 18:05

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I found Cider with Rosie a huge yawnfest, second only to Shakespeare!

Got to agree there. I hold Laurie Lee personally responsible for my failure at English Literature 'O' Level. Unadulterated drivel.

rockrabbit · 25-02-2005, 19:09

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Am I right in thinking that rockrabbit, slinky, and tinkerbelle all went to Mount Carmel?

nope only me and slinky s hubby but he started later on

rockrabbit · 25-02-2005, 19:12

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Originally Posted by slinky

The best book I ever read at school was OF MICE AND MEN (john.STEINBECK) fantastic.....
then I watched the film and it was a flop, but usually the case.

we had to do that book in the 4th year we read half the book then we got shown the folm so was pointless reading the rest of the book we had some crazy geordie teaching us well think he was geordie his name was r mcaloon or summat like that i know he d been there as long as the foundations

shiny gem · 25-02-2005, 19:17

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Originally Posted by rockrabbit

we had to do that book in the 4th year we read half the book then we got shown the folm so was pointless reading the rest of the book we had some crazy geordie teaching us well think he was geordie his name was r mcaloon or summat like that i know he d been there as long as the foundations

hey he rocked!!!!! he was such a cool teacher!!! he made us read a book about the rats of nyhm!!! and he kept telling us off for our pronunciation of werewolf!!! lmao!!!!
And of mice and men was a fab book!!!! although i did like the film!!! gary sinise is gorgeous!!!

rockrabbit · 25-02-2005, 19:21

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Originally Posted by shiny gem

hey he rocked!!!!! he was such a cool teacher!!! he made us read a book about the rats of nyhm!!! and he kept telling us off for our pronunciation of werewolf!!! lmao!!!!
And of mice and men was a fab book!!!! although i did like the film!!! gary sinise is gorgeous!!!

he was off his head lol must admit he was pretty entertaining at times taking the micky out of people the best one was mr mulderrick dotn think you ll remember him he was at the bottom site a history teacher and used to give people bear hugs if you annoyed him lol

shiny gem · 25-02-2005, 19:25

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he was off his head lol must admit he was pretty entertaining at times taking the micky out of people the best one was mr mulderrick dotn think you ll remember him he was at the bottom site a history teacher and used to give people bear hugs if you annoyed him lol

no sorry dont remember him!! he must have left!! sounds like a blast though!!

rockrabbit · 25-02-2005, 19:31

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no sorry dont remember him!! he must have left!! sounds like a blast though!!

dont tinik he knew how to smile sure he left coz of mental problems quite a few seem to have left though now i dont know half of the names of the teachers is mr fowler still there ? he was always a laugh who was the teacher who was the teacher who s famous line was DONT BARK AT ME lol

shiny gem · 25-02-2005, 19:40

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Originally Posted by rockrabbit

dont tinik he knew how to smile sure he left coz of mental problems quite a few seem to have left though now i dont know half of the names of the teachers is mr fowler still there ? he was always a laugh who was the teacher who was the teacher who s famous line was DONT BARK AT ME lol

mr fowler was there when i left!! i never had him though... dont bark at me??? hmmm what did he look like??? what did he teach???

rockrabbit · 25-02-2005, 19:43

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mr fowler was there when i left!! i never had him though... dont bark at me??? hmmm what did he look like??? what did he teach???

mr fowler was my from teacher when i move to the top site plus had him for R.E. and i think it was mr law not sure though but he was my P.E. teacher then i think he started teaching geography later on after mr keighley started

shiny gem · 25-02-2005, 19:52

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Originally Posted by rockrabbit

mr fowler was my from teacher when i move to the top site plus had him for R.E. and i think it was mr law not sure though but he was my P.E. teacher then i think he started teaching geography later on after mr keighley started

i loved mr Law!!! he was great!!! yeah he took me for geography !!! i wasnt too keen on mr keighley!! he always reminded me of a bulldog!!!

rockrabbit · 25-02-2005, 19:55

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i loved mr Law!!! he was great!!! yeah he took me for geography !!! i wasnt too keen on mr keighley!! he always reminded me of a bulldog!!!

mr law was sound i hated keighley he was a cocky little git a few out my year where after sorting him when they left not sure if a few did if was rumoured and meant to be true he was seeing a girl out my year even when we was still at school

shiny gem · 25-02-2005, 20:01

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Originally Posted by rockrabbit

mr law was sound i hated keighley he was a cocky little git a few out my year where after sorting him when they left not sure if a few did if was rumoured and meant to be true he was seeing a girl out my year even when we was still at school

lmao!!! you know there was supposed to be a hole from the lads changing rooms to the girls (rumoured!!!) so that the lads could peep on us poor girls!!! dont know if it was true or not but it kept us on our toes!!