View Full Version : Going to the engagement party of my oldest friend on Saturday. Known him and his family 30 years.
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:21 PM
Trouble is, his dad used to teach me chemistry and I find it well-nigh impossible to call him anything but 'sir'. No matter how much he insists I call him 'Alan', it just seems wrong. :-
Isn't it odd how effectively childhood indoctrination sticks?
Classic Jorge
04-29-2013, 02:23 PM
They called me by my first name, I called them by theirs. They called me by my second name, I called them by theirs.
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:25 PM
You do remember what happened to him in the end, don't you?
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 02:25 PM
He should be addressed as 'Sir' until the day you die.
Standards, old chap.
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:29 PM
party and a large number of his son's friends are going to be calling him 'sir'. I think he'll find that awkward.
Even more awkward is the the fact that - after 30 years - I've absolutely no idea what my friend's mum's name is.
Classic Jorge
04-29-2013, 02:29 PM
I reckon Reg showed it to the class for that reason.
I used to say to the headmaster "respect is a two way street, Mike" I'm not sure whether I got through to him at the time but I like to think that, as he got older and matured, that he came round to my way of thinking a little.
Billy Goat Sverige
04-29-2013, 02:29 PM
Classic Jorge
04-29-2013, 02:31 PM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 02:32 PM
Tell 'em the old trouble's flared up a bit. Khyber Cough, Raging Delhi Trots. Dhobi Itch perhaps.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 02:33 PM
You'd have been tied to a radiator and buggered insensible.
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:34 PM
The end of corporal punishment must have been a sad day for teachers.
Classic Jorge
04-29-2013, 02:35 PM
Hang on, I thought you were a young scruffer-me-lad from the mean streets of south london who made his considerable way in the world through chutzpah, vim and vinegar.
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:36 PM
I fear I'm far too bourgeois to do that - however tempting it is. :-(
Billy Goat Sverige
04-29-2013, 02:36 PM
Or Bumbaclot by the black half of the class.
Mr Nash :****er:
Classic Jorge
04-29-2013, 02:38 PM
Part of the reason they put up with me though was that, even as a voluntarily part time student, I kept their averages up. Someone had to be there to offset the feeble minded rich kids effect on the curve.
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:39 PM
Supermac1976
04-29-2013, 02:41 PM
It never did me any harm either.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 02:41 PM
These things are rarely linear. I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see.
Classic Jorge
04-29-2013, 02:42 PM
:hehe: you *******
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:45 PM
the headmaster. The only one I hold anything against was a chap who used to hit kids on the backside with a tennis shoe in front of the whole class and was actively disappointed if you didn't cry. Nasty piece of work. I sincerely hope he's dead.
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:47 PM
Berni
04-29-2013, 02:52 PM
So who did the I've been to paradise one?
And no, I can't be bothered googling.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 02:53 PM
I'm pretty sure I've seen that movie.
redgunamo
04-29-2013, 02:54 PM
Classic Jorge
04-29-2013, 02:55 PM
She should make them go one at a time from now on.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 02:59 PM
Jesus H f**king Christ. An engagement party. Is he having a stag weekend in Ibiza as well?
The chap is jolly well old enough to know better, and there's an end to it.
Berni
04-29-2013, 03:13 PM
(and himself) that it will actually happen.
I'm quite cynical, though. And I've known him 30 years.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 03:13 PM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
04-29-2013, 03:24 PM
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