Classroom mischief?

[meenaghman]

>> Throwing our crayons on the floor and looking up miss' dress

We were only 16, then!. <<

ah yes .. I remember a particularly pretty science teacher.. trick was to call her over with a problem..she would eg stand behind you on left side.. you would point to something on your right strategically placed so she had to lean over you.. I can still smell her perfume and feel her breast against my face The joy of raging hormones.

 

[4F]

Waiting until all the other buson burners were lit and then blowing as hard as you could into your tap and if you had enough breath extingusing everyone elses.

Laughing at the science teacher who despite telling everyone never to pick up the bottle of suplhuric acid by the pipette lid did exactly that and spilt it on his clothes in the meat and 2 veg area. Never have I seen anyone jump into a sink so fast bottom first.

Firing pencils from the crossbows made in O level woodwork in the playing field when the woodwork teacher was not looking

Happy days.

 

[snapper_37]

A good magnifying glass, bright summer sun.... and the class twat not knowing that you had homed in on their tie

 

[swee'pea99]

Some excellent japes here - well done everyone!

One of the more extreme ones reminded me of being told by a friend of a contest at his quite posh boarding school to see who could nick the largest item from a local department store, which ended with two boys apprehended while carrying a dishwasher towards the front door.

 

[User169]

There was a craze at my school for making "ninja stars" in CDT; using a guillotine you could cut them out from sheet metal.

The jape got rumbled when one of the teachers fitted some of the offcuts back together and realised exactly what was missing.

 

[661-Pete]

Making ammonium triodide is now a dismissable offence in many local education authorities....

Is it any surprise that kids are switched off by science now that the bangs flashes and smells have been outlawed?

Too true. Why, I'm told that they've even outlawed the asbestos sheets that we used to put our bunsen burners on! And as for those wretched safety specs.... none of that wet weedy stuff in my day....

I should explain, though, I think you made too much NH3NI3 and you've only yourself to blame. We used to concoct it in teaspoonful-sized batches (perhaps I'd better not post the recipe, don't want this forum to attract 'attention'! ). Anyway, once the ingredients were prepared we used to tip it through a filter paper and spread out the paper with the residue, on a shelf somewhere to dry. Then when it was dry you could set it off just by touching the paper. It was when boys started sprinkling it over the classroom floor while still wet, so that it dried out on the floor, in time for Chalkie to walk on it, that the fun really happened...

 

[Mr Pig]

There was a craze at my school for making "ninja stars" in CDT; using a guillotine you could cut them out from sheet metal.

I used to make those too. Sold them to...the kind of boys you shouldn't sell things like that to. I remember one getting stuck into a wall clock.

Two fairly nasty games were 'chicken' and 'snipes'. Chicken involved someone rubbing an ink rubber backwards and forwards on the back of your hand until you told them to stop. Some kids had hands covered in big scabs.

Snipes was similar. A deck of cards was fanned out into a wedge shape and swiped down like a chisel on the opponents knuckles. If done correctly it took the skin off. Who thinks these things up?!

And what about snow? :0) I remember people trying to squeeze onto school buses as snowballs rained in from all directions, ice slides that went on for miles and too many smashed windows to recount.

A friend and I hit a truck with stones one day. Truck driver got a fright and swerved. Car coming the opposite way swerved to avoid the truck, went up onto the pavement and just missed a lamp post! All quite impressive so we did the honourable thing and ran like hell! Thought we'd got away with it but next day, as soon as we got in to the class, we got collared. Turned out the car driver was the husband of a teacher and a passing kid grassed us off. All we got was a stern talking to though ;0)

 

[vernon]

I should explain, though, I think you made too much NH3NI3 and you've only yourself to blame.

I knew exactly what I was doing quantity wise. I wanted lots of it

We used to concoct it in teaspoonful-sized batches (perhaps I'd better not post the recipe, don't want this forum to attract 'attention'! ).

It's freely available by googling so I'd not worry too much. Besides it's not as easy as it used to be to get hold of the chemicals.

Anyway, once the ingredients were prepared we used to tip it through a filter paper and spread out the paper with the residue, on a shelf somewhere to dry.

I know the process intimately. I just didn't factor in solar accelerated drying

Then when it was dry you could set it off just by touching the paper. It was when boys started sprinkling it over the classroom floor while still wet, so that it dried out on the floor, in time for Chalkie to walk on it, that the fun really happened...

As a school boy rather than a science teacher, we used to paint the floor and stuff classroom locks with it. The activity was brought to a halt when the cleaners boycotted the science block for a few days.


For more visually dramatic explosions I used to detonate acetylene/air mixes in metal dustbins and watch the bin lid soar upwards followed by a large orange sooty fireball and every dog in the area barking manically.

Truly awesome!

Oh the joys of undergraduate life in Headingley.

 

[Trumpettom001]

Reading the last 4 pages has given me all the ideas I need to make the upcoming 2 years of college more interesting.... I'm gonna start with the extinguishing of bunsen burners... (I play trumpet and ride alot so I've got a fairly good set of lungs, i reckon...)

 

[Madmidwife]

What a joy to read these posts!!

Picking the varnish off the parquet flooring
Bunging all the sinks in the loos with hand towels- turning on the taps.......
Clipping test tube holders to the chemistry teachers lab coat
Carving the initial of your hearthrob on your arm with a compass- constantly picking the scab until you had a permanent scar of that initial
Rubbing the inside of a vicks inhaler nasal stick under your eyes in summer to get out of PE 'cos you had bad hayfever!!!!

ahhhhh

 

[Mr Pig]

Rubbing the inside of a vicks inhaler nasal stick under your eyes in summer to get out of PE 'cos you had bad hayfever!

Never thought of that but I once rubbed a full tub of Vick all over my chest one night when I was about eight. Thought my eyeballs were going to melt!

My brother was a total idiot...actually, he still is. He did loads of stuff to himself when he was a kid. It's quite surprising that he's still alive.