1st of the month and another coffee

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memory of boarding school - on the 1st of the month you had to say (shout) 'pinch punch first of the month veins return' whilst pinching and punching the girl you were shouting it at before she could do it to you. 'veins return' means she cant do it back. we had all these rules or 'doings', some of which i have remembered - for example when you found something, even if you knew who it belonged to, you held it up shouting 'quiz?' and someone who either wanted it, or who it belonged to, or who respnded just in case they might want it, responded 'ego'.  you always had to shout.  you could also use the 'veins return' if you were quizzing and you didnt want the thing. 

ok so back to the present. just because it was 1st april today i remembered.. and its interesting that these days people pronounce ego as 'eego', whereas we pronounced it 'eggo', funny ol life.

would be nice to have some really amazing interesting stuff to report. i took a pic on my phone when having a quick coffee in the crypt of St. John's.  Hendersons have now taken it over, so it is slightly different.  a pic on my phone from where i was sitting - then i took one on my way out looking back, rather quickly so as not to make people feel peculiar and i caught it rather well, i thought, as it expressed what i felt! (the blur as i sweep out of the place)
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dritanje said…
I couldn't work out veins at first then I remembered we said fains meaning the same thing - perhaps it was the same word? never saw it written down, but always thought of it as fains, with an f. Ego, pronounced eggo is latin for i so quite right i think well that was the way we were taught to pronounce it, eggo. Eego, that sounds like some easily frightened Russian violinist - so i think! But they don't mean i, they mean that dratty bit of us that's selfish oh dear, imperfect us. Loved the blurry blue pic. Maybe we should write down lots of school days memories, to amaze and mystify the coming generations?
M xxx
17 February 2010 at 23:54
three sea horses said…
Aha! it could well have been an f -and it must have been a latin word too? maybe 'refuse'? Ego - I - of course .. duuh.. appreciate your memories and corrections :-)
yes our memories of school probably would amaze, mystify, horrify even..
TXx
20 February 2010 at 14:04
dritanje said…
But of course you're right I didn't think of fains as latin but didn't Shakespeare or someone living around that time say things like Fain would I...whatever - fain would I blight the memory of her sweet shoulder carpeted with dew - they spoke like that then. lots love, M xx.PS Just back from Wales, and there's snow here again and it sounds very bad up north
26 February 2010 at 22:29
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