BritSpeak: Peeling Sprouts? Really ....Sprouts?

[dudemom_2000]

Message 28293 
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" 
<drednort at a...> wrote:
> One of the funniest things I ever saw...
> 
> I was a newly minted prefect and we had a whole bunch of boys new 
to the school - start of a new school year. Some senior boys were 
> distributed around the junior boys tables during meals for the 
first week or so while they were getting used to how things worked.
> 
> On Sunday we had a roast dinner. And there was one kid at my table 
> who didn't want to eat his brussel sprouts. I decided to exert 
some authority and told him that unless he ate at least one Brussel 
> Sprout, he couldn't have desert.
> 
> Most condiments were removed on Sundays to stop us smothering our 
> roast dinner in tomato sauce (we smothered everything - except 
> possibly ice cream - in sauce). The only things besides salt and 
> pepper on the table was hot English mustard. And I sat there and 
> watched as this kid carefully coated his entire brussel sprout in 
a layer of hot English mustard.
> 
> Then he placed the entire sprout - I suppose about the size of a 
golf ball, coated in hot English mustard in his mouth and tried to 
swallow it whole.
> 
> The noise he made was... impressive... the sprout didn't go down, 
it just hung around at the back of his throat until I thought he was 
> choking. At that point - as he fell down on the floor drumming his 
> heels, I tried to take action, but a teacher arrived, pulled him 
up and hit him on the back to dislodge it.
> 
> I got into so much trouble. First of all, I really didn't have the 
> authority to force him to eat a brussel sprout, but nobody would 
have really worried about that. What got me in trouble was later in 
the infirmary when the Matron wanted to know what had happened - so 
I described to her what he'd done.
> 
> The end of the conversation was something like this:
> 
> "So you sat there and watched him cover his brussel sprout in a 
thick layer of mustard, knowing what he was going to do... why 
didn't you stop him?"
> 
> "I wanted to see what would happen."
> 
> Not the best answer, I could have given, I have to say. The adults 
> were not very impressed with it.
> 
> Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
> Shaun Hately | www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/thelab.html
> (ISTJ)       | drednort at a... | ICQ: 6898200 
> "You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one
> thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the 
> facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be 
> uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that 
> need altering." The Doctor - Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
> Where am I: Frankston, Victoria, Australia

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I am still laughing..... This is right up there with a friend who 
went to a Japanese restaurant with me and decided he could pop the 
whole bit of wasabi right in his mouth because it was green and just 
couldn't be that hot! (I believe my Kirin came out of my nose at 
that point!) Kids do the darndest things!

Dudemom_2000 (who is still planning her Snitch sweater and thinks 
JKR put that and the knitting pattern comment in just for her)

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