[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Computer Security For Dummies / Shaun's school

[Shaun Hately]

On 4 Sep 2003 at 17:13, Kirstini wrote:

> Nope, wasn't that one. Of course, I've forgotten the name of the 
> school in the film now. It definately had "Victoria" in it somewhere, 
> but it ended in "Boy's School" It wasn't Erinsbourough High, Summer 
> Bay High or Heartbreak High either.. ;P

Ah, yes, Australia's contributions to world culture. (-8

You now have me wanting to rent Priscilla, just to see what school was 
mentioned.

I can't think of any school that matches at the moment.
 
> Cindy, those books sound lots of fun. I may have to go and waste some 
> time on Amazon. As opposed to Yahoo.
> 
> I love hearing about all the sniggersome prefect traditions. My 
> school did have them at one point, but by the time I got to 6th year, 
> a new hippy headmaster had been installed. He changed the school's 
> Latin motto "Fidelis et Fortis" to "We value and respect the 
> diversity which exists among people", abolished the uniform, and 
> relaced the prefects with the Senior Executive Commitee, whose duties 
> included "befriending" first year pupils, organising dances, 
> repainting the Sixth Year common room and dressing up in cutesy 
> girlie Santa-frocks at the Christmas Carol Concert (actually, that 
> one was just me, although I was accompanied by Frosty the Snowman). 
> It was all terribly pc (except the last bit. That costume was 
> *short*.), but I did have a bit of a hankering for some good old 
> fashioned disciplinary action occasionally.

If we'd ever wound up with a headmaster like that, he'd probably have 
wound up in the crypt. (-8 I shudder to think of my school's traditions 
having vanished in that way - not that there weren't a few that could 
have stood a little bit of reform but most of them were very precious to 
us.  

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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