From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V7 #168 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, June 6 2004 Volume 07 : Number 168 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] B's B-day (yeah, thanks) ["Keith Astbury" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] B's B-day (yeah, thanks) > ok ok ok...gimme a break guys...the U is right next to the I (at least it is > on American typewriters) Bet you get your I Roy and U Roy mixed up then ; ) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:21:28 EDT From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] B's B-day (yeah, thanks) > Bet you get your I Roy and U Roy mixed up then ; ) Like the marvellous BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer who said John Peel would be playing tracks by "Prince Far the First" Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 05:28:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: AW:OT [idealcopy] Supporting Roxy Music //// This guy was clearly a STAR!! I'm afraid that at my old school, we'd have given anything for a teacher like that. Unfortunately, what we got was a shower of *the* most disconnected, stuffy and in some cases, wildly eccentric people ever to grace the classroom. The very notion that any of his pupils were even entertaining going to see one of those [harrummphh] "Beat groups" would've called for a carpeting and a lecture from our head, and I only *ever* learned 2 useful things from *my* R.E. Teacher , to wit:1) There are a lot of religions you may choose to ignore, and 2) The importance of keeping .....erm......'hygienic'(?): for french speakers, that's "Ne pas de fromage...." , I guess. Indeedy, all told, Barrow Boy's Grammar was to education what H.M.S. Bounty was to naval morale......... :-( I was so-oo jealous of some of my fellow 4th formers who hauled off to see the Velvet Underground at Lancaster Uni, for donkey's years, until I found out they went to see the rather bogus version fronted by Doug Yule. I'm not *that* jealous, anymore..........:-) dw Tough luck, Keith, getting carted off to see Heep, though. How's the tinnitus? ;-) Keith Astbury wrote: > Well jealous of the fact you saw RM in 72....well beyond teh aspirations of my 11-year-old self at that time ! > > Mark Our RE teacher, Mr Kerfoot Owen (named cos he deserves it) used to take us to gigs. I had my name down to see Roxy in 1974, but he had to cancel it due to lack of interest. So I went to see Uriah Heep instead. Drat! This is how great the guy was... There was a petrol shortage early 79. He rang me up at home at the weekend before to tell me to keep it quiet that we were going to see Elvis Costello as he didn't want the head to know he'd driven us to Manchester when there was a very real possibility that he wouldn't be able to re-fuel in the forseeable future (and therefore not be able to get to school!) All this and he couldn't get a ticket himself. He sat in his car, marking pupils homework, under a street lamp. He retired a few yrs back, and fittingly my eldest son was one of the pupils in the retirement photo of him in the local paper. Sent him a card belatedly thanking him for his troubles. After all, I wouldn't have seen T.Rex without him. Kerf. I salute you! Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V7 #168 *******************************