This will probably be regarded as heresy by some........

[NARSES2]

"one man's fish is another man's poisson"  (or something like that)

Any more like that and it's the naughty stair for you 

[Rheged]

"one man's fish is another man's poisson"  (or something like that)

Any more like that and it's the naughty stair for you  

I've been sitting there so long I have squatters rights on the  step!

[NARSES2]

"one man's fish is another man's poisson"  (or something like that)

Any more like that and it's the naughty stair for you  

I've been sitting there so long I have squatters rights on the  step!

Reminds me of the first day of the school year at secondary school. Every year there would be a mad scramble for the best desks - the ones at the back - and then the master would come in and rearrange things. I was normally moved and placed within "swatting" distance 

[Stargazer]

Reminds me of the first day of the school year at secondary school. Every year there would be a mad scramble for the best desks - the ones at the back - and then the master would come in and rearrange things. I was normally moved and placed within "swatting" distance 

Sounds just like my own life story... ROTFL! 

[Rheged]

As a former teacher, i can reveal that if you are a twerp sitting at the back of the class, you are in the sights of the teacher standing at the front. It's the individuals  who sit at the front who are  out of your line of sight. Fortunately, not many  twerps ever realised that.

[Stargazer]

I'm a former teacher too! And what you're saying makes some sense... or rather it did at the time when the teacher's desk was raised, but now it's level with the rest of the classroom...

[Mr.Creak]

I'm a former twerp!
Why couldn't you have told me this much earlier in my life?

[RussC]

Is twerp the same as "class clown" in the big cities USA? 
 
While the guys were comparing their prowess on the basketball court or the back-seat of the car and the girls passed little encoded love notes, I just sat in the back doing what-if designs, planes, ships, trains, space stations, buildings. When busted by the teacher, she promptly had a talk with my counselor and next term, I was in drafting, print shop , electronics lab, and woodworking. 

[Stargazer]

Is twerp the same as "class clown" in the big cities USA? 
 
While the guys were comparing their prowess on the basketball court or the back-seat of the car and the girls passed little encoded love notes, I just sat in the back doing what-if designs, planes, ships, trains, space stations, buildings. When busted by the teacher, she promptly had a talk with my counselor and next term, I was in drafting, print shop , electronics lab, and woodworking. 

You should forever be grateful to that counselor... Some kids are forced to carry on in high school learning useless stuff instead of building on their creativity...

[RussC]

Is twerp the same as "class clown" in the big cities USA?  
 
While the guys were comparing their prowess on the basketball court or the back-seat of the car and the girls passed little encoded love notes, I just sat in the back doing what-if designs, planes, ships, trains, space stations, buildings. When busted by the teacher, she promptly had a talk with my counselor and next term, I was in drafting, print shop , electronics lab, and woodworking.  

You should forever be grateful to that counselor... Some kids are forced to carry on in high school learning useless stuff instead of building on their creativity...

Was grateful indeed, plus my later employers. That school became a technical school and even had a television studio and a aeronautics ground school. The instructor for that one had worked many years at TWA and with a phone call, obtained obsolete but functional link trainers and even an early 707 simulator.

[Rheged]

Is twerp the same as "class clown" in the big cities USA? 
 

Exactly so!    Some class twerps were bright but bored, some dim but posessed of low animal cunning and one or two just  revolting. I could easily deal with the bright ones, the dim ones were usually amenable to  reason  but for the evil ones, cremation was probably the only answer.

[NARSES2]

Ah right. I suppose I was the "bright but bored" in some subjects then. It was in those classes that I could be a little "playfull". One master took me to one side in the third year and explained a few facts of life to me. Along the lines of "it may seem easy to you Edwards, but others are really having to work hard on this". First time I was ever spoken to man to man and it had the desired effect. Behaved (mostly) after that 

What proves your point is that in the subjects I had to work at (maths & physics) I was as good as gold.

Mind you on one occasion nearly gave a master a nervous attack simply by keeping quiet and not taking up at least two opportunities he gave for "comment". In the end he asked me if I was alright - cheek 

[RussC]

Ah right. I suppose I was the "bright but bored" in some subjects then. It was in those classes that I could be a little "playfull". One master took me to one side in the third year and explained a few facts of life to me. Along the lines of "it may seem easy to you Edwards, but others are really having to work hard on this". First time I was ever spoken to man to man and it had the desired effect. Behaved (mostly) after that  

What proves your point is that in the subjects I had to work at (maths & physics) I was as good as gold.

Mind you on one occasion nearly gave a master a nervous attack simply by keeping quiet and not taking up at least two opportunities he gave for "comment". In the end he asked me if I was alright - cheek  

I too had the mano y mano talk with an instructor from chemistry. It involved oxidizers, fuels - reagents.....and noise.
 
Between that, machining and modelmaking- I'm amazed sometimes that I still have 10 digits only lightly scarred. 
 

[Rheged]

Ah right. I suppose I was the "bright but bored" in some subjects then. It was in those classes that I could be a little "playfull". One master took me to one side in the third year and explained a few facts of life to me. Along the lines of "it may seem easy to you Edwards, but others are really having to work hard on this". First time I was ever spoken to man to man and it had the desired effect. Behaved (mostly) after that  

What proves your point is that in the subjects I had to work at (maths & physics) I was as good as gold.

Mind you on one occasion nearly gave a master a nervous attack simply by keeping quiet and not taking up at least two opportunities he gave for "comment". In the end he asked me if I was alright - cheek  

I too had the mano y mano talk with an instructor from chemistry. It involved oxidizers, fuels - reagents.....and noise.
 
Between that, machining and modelmaking- I'm amazed sometimes that I still have 10 digits only lightly scarred. 
 

I had assumed that  any of the inhabitants of Whiffworld  would fall into the "Bright but bored"  category.  JMNs are more the dim but cunning group.

[PR19_Kit]

This is turning into a 'School Tales' thread....... 

I had a buddy at school, Rob Johns, who was Canadian, whose Dad was a Prof in Nuclear Physics who on loan to Oxford Uni for a year or two. We were both in the Chemistry A set and for one practical test had to build a rig to produce aniline. This involved heating some noxious mix to an outrageous temperature and distilling the fumes produced. As it was the middle of winter we couldn't get it hot enough for the reaction to start, so kept adding more and more Bunsen burners, with asbestos (!) sheets around the outside to keep the heat in. All was going well until our Chemistry Master approached, arms waving and shouting VERY loudly!

We stepped back from the equipment to find the whole lab was filled with a dense smoke cloud and the bench on which our equipment was resting was on fire! 

After the application of a few fire extinguishers normal order was returned, which is more than can be said for the state of mine and Rob's reputation afterward!!!