It will not surprise you to know that I fully
support the proposal of Mr Trump to train the teaching profession in the use of
ordnance.
I adopt this position on the basis of
experience and watching how effective it was during my schooldays.
I cannot imagine that Dr Adey would have been
so successful in instilling respect for Chaucer’s popularisation of the
vernacular had he not reinforced his thesis with his trademark P938.
Miss Stones, later Mrs Lewis, was famous for
her enquiry about the number of Commandments – “Are there nine commandments or
are there ten? Ask yourself one question – do I feel lucky?”
Who can forget the day that “Butch” Robinson
and “Sundance” Hargreaves Minor came a cropper when they tried to sneak out
before the bell had gone and were met with the combined fire power of the staff
of the biology department?
I doubt whether many of us would have
understood the birth of the Romantic movement in symphonic music had Mr Newby
not kept time with Mendelssohn’s Reformation symphony by shooting the score
onto the blackboard with his famous Smith and Wesson.
None of us would have mastered the declension
of German verbs had not Herr Clarke and Herr Still been mounted in gun towers.
As for Barry Batterham’s replacement of the
starter pistol on Sports Day with an AK47, what can one say? Seldom have the
competitors in the 880 yards felt so motivated.
Happy days indeed.
