1980 School Magazine

TEACHER'S QUOTES "l don't care if you go to see "The Getting of Wisdom" in your dressing-gown, as long as you see it." Teacher: "The need for more statesmen is as futile as my need for a smaller nose. lt could never happen. " Student: "But you sttll need one!" Teacher: "You're getting a 3 for Englishl" Miss Greet:"The earth wouldn't wobble if you got off , but you'd wobble if the earth got oii." M rs Torney:"Suff ice to say Biol. Teacher: "lf your sex life is like a potato, it's bad - potatoes are asexual." Mrs Cooke: "Ohl I didn't think pregnancy would be like thisiI" Mrs Cooke: "A terrifying thought - I didn't want to look like a beach ball." Mrs Spykerboer:To a prospective music student of B.G.S. in French class: "M- don't walk in here like a hobol"

"Two hundred kilojoules of energy = the energy in a butter and vegemite sandwich with two slices of bread." "substances behave strangely when rubbed, for instance my dog behaves strangely when rubbed." "Poor little compass needles are nearly always standing on their heads." "The other criminal thing to do with filings is to put them in the sink." "l didn't hear all that, but I've no doubt it's correct." "l thought these compass needles looked a bit sick so I got this electro-magnet and they jumped like mad. For those who didn't see it, it's certainly worth seeing." "Romanticism gave Germans a sense of Germanness." "Look up about Hertz - and now I don't want any confusion with the Rent-a-car." "speaking of asexual reproduction - say I fancy that hibiscus, ldon't really, but say ldo, then lgo along when Mrs Ashton isn't looking and take a cutting off it." "l remember in my youthful days when I tried to run a radiator and a f rypan off the same plug - it was quite spectacu lar.' ' "l usually have a three pin plug bui I haven't seen it since last year." "lf a wire in a toaster slips, the metal becomes live and you become 'u n live' .' ' "Don't ask your neighbour - they won't know, and we'll just have a pooling of ignorance, and we'll have enough of that when we go over it tomorrow."

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