Classroom mischief?

[swee'pea99]

Just read Alan Frame on another thread asking if anyone remembers blow football, and it took me right back to junior school and the battles we boys used to have behind the teachers' backs, using little wads of chewed up paper spat peashooter-stylie thru' bic biro tubes with the refills removed.

This was when we weren't folding up bits of paper into tight little slugs, bent into a V and fired using rubber bands. Man, they could sting! You could get in real trouble if caught - quite rightly, on the grounds that 'you could take someone's eye out'. And you probably could, tho' no-one ever did. But the satisfaction of getting someone with such a cracker on the bum that they actually yelped!...

In the winter, we liked putting wax crayons on the radiators and watching them melt....

With hindsight I'm amazed any of our teachers remained even semi-sane.

 

[Archie_tect]

Blob, Under-manager, Orifice....board rubber missiles, Nitric Acid 'lemonade', crates of school milk frozen in winter, lab packs, bunsen burners, school mashed potato.... yes it's all coming back to me...

Table rugby using a matchbox, try scored if the box overhung the end of the desk without falling followed by a conversion over the posts made with joined thumbs between the arms for 2 points... easy with a Swan Vestas box, advanced with a Scottish Bluebell box!

 

[Dave5N]

jumpers for goalposts, ah yes!

 

[Dave5N]

Isn't it.

 

[summerdays]

[quote name='swee'pea99']Just read Alan Frame on another thread asking if anyone remembers blow football, and it took me right back to junior school and the battles we boys used to have behind the teachers' backs, using little wads of chewed up paper spat peashooter-stylie thru' bic biro tubes with the refills removed.[/QUOTE]

In maths I use to sit at the back in the middle row of desks ... and the boys on the rows either side used to play it. We would here things like forward/back etc and have to move or get hit as they aimed for each other with us in the middle. We were far too good to join in - too busy chatting and writing out song lyrics.

 

[Globalti]

Silver paper rockets with chewing gum or wet paper warheads that stuck to the cieling when you threw them up hard enough. Some classrooms looked like caves with a mass of stals.

 

[darkstar]

We used to spend hours playing table rugby, flicking a coin to rest on the edge of the table
As for causing trouble, tricking the supply teachers used to be the most enjoyable

 

[Alan Frame]

Doctors and nurses.


Still play it now !

 

[Dayvo]

My dad confiscated my catapaults, but I found a much more accurate weapon in my mum's plastic kitchen spoon!

It was like a missile launcher!

 

[Alan Frame]

At junior school one teacher made the very basic error of mentioning to the tuck shop monitors that we could eat any item of stock which was broken and therefore not fit for sale.....

 

[levad]

We played table Rugby. Another favorite was to splat ink. We had "slam top" wooden desks, lift the lid, line up Quink ink cartridges on the edge of the desk and slam the lid down Ink everywhere.

 

[Alan Frame]

And what was that "game" where you stood opposite your opponent, fingertip to fingertip, and tried to smack the living daylights out of their hand ?

Used to go home with hands which were almost red raw !

 

[Dayvo]

And what was that "game" where you stood opposite your opponent, fingertip to fingertip, and tried to smack the living daylights out of their hand ?

Used to go home with hands which were almost red raw !

Yeah, and a similar game but using the knuckles, instead.

 

[Mr Pig]

There were always crazies going round the school. Firing folded up paper from elastic bands was one. Until a girl at another school lost an eye! After that they threatened expulsion for anyone carrying elastic bands!

We used to steal syringes from science and scoosh water at people too.

 

[Alan Frame]

Firing marbles out of copper pipes using bangers. [when bangers actually exploded rather than went "phutttt", like now].

Wrapping match heads in silver foil and then exploding them with heat.

Collecting slow worms from the churchyard next door then have them escape from the inkwell hole in your desk mid lesson.

Snogging Mary while the baby Jesus looked on in the Nativity play.

Constantly scabbed knees from falling over.

Connecting bunsen burners up to the water taps.

Ducking wooden board rubbers thrown by teachers with an uncanny aim due to years of practice.

Eventually succeeding in penetrating all the way through your desktop [top of the desk for those of you only brought up on computers] using only the pointy end of a pair of compasses.

Wondering what the heck binary would ever be used for.

Cross country runs in the depths of winter, covered in icy mud and then falling in the canal.

School trips which were actually free, rather than a moneymaking scam.

Outside toilet blocks which froze in winter.

A caretaker who lived in a warehouse coat and was everyone's friend.

Nicknames for teacher like "Conk", "Basher" and "Wizzer".

Big bags of marbles and ballbearings, and conkers in season.

Racing Dinky cars down the playground.

Appearing on both ends of the school photo.


Happy days !