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I am sure that, if anyone understood what they were supposed to mean, they would be happy to share the joke.

Sorry I should have made it clear that I had actually read BruceInSanity's reference not just quoted it.

 

If you cannot find the link I will expand.

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Sorry I should have made it clear that I had actually read BruceInSanity's reference not just quoted it.

 

If you cannot find the link I will expand.

No, don't worry thanks, I'm not that bothered, and besides, you might burst.

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Its not that. I thought you'd spelt illiterate wrong. You hadn't. I cocked up

Er, I don't think I used the word "illiterate". I used "literature", which I misspelt on purpose after the fashion of Nigel Molesworth in his books 'Down With Skool' etc.

 

This reminds me of an official teaching document I once saw, headed 'The problem of illiterracy'.

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Er, I don't think I used the word "illiterate". I used "literature", which I misspelt on purpose after the fashion of Nigel Molesworth in his books 'Down With Skool' etc.

 

This reminds me of an official teaching document I once saw, headed 'The problem of illiterracy'.

 

And here's me thinking it was a porcine pun!

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And here's me thinking it was a porcine pun!

Well, Molesworth's skool school, St. Custard's, did have a school pig. When I first read these books I was only about ten, so the comic absurdity of a school keeping a pet pig went over my head.

Whether this pig ever had a litter is not, alas, recorded.

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Well, Molesworth's skool school, St. Custard's, did have a school pig. When I first read these books I was only about ten, so the comic absurdity of a school keeping a pet pig went over my head.

Whether this pig ever had a litter is not, alas, recorded.

What is comic about a school having a pig?

 

We had pigs.

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What is comic about a school having a pig?

 

We had pigs.

Likewise, but generally reduced to portion size and (almost) cooked.

Come to think of it, at my last prep school the science bod, a fine British eccentric called Mr. Wakeham-Dawson, kept a flock of sheep in the grounds. The science section of the school's annual magazine generally contained little about what the pupils had been doing in the classroom or the lab, but a list of prizes which the sheep had won at various country shows.

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We had a skool pig too.

 

He used to finish up all the food the rest of us left at skool dinner* time.

 

 

*It was a working class skool, otherwise it would of bin called lunch.

I have met that kind of school pig, but invariably the biped breed.

 

Actually, when I lived in London there was a restaurant in the next street called 'School Dinners' which in fact catered for a very fratefully-fratefully crowd.

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Well, Molesworth's skool school, St. Custard's, did have a school pig. When I first read these books I was only about ten, so the comic absurdity of a school keeping a pet pig went over my head.

Whether this pig ever had a litter is not, alas, recorded.

 

The great thing about the Molesworth books is there's enough to make you laugh at age ten but as you get older you find new sources of amusement in the content. I have a first edition of Down With Skool, 1953, and it still makes me laugh out loud today even though I've read it hundreds of times. The only thing that compares is some of the old Marx brothers films.

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The great thing about the Molesworth books is there's enough to make you laugh at age ten but as you get older you find new sources of amusement in the content. I have a first edition of Down With Skool, 1953, and it still makes me laugh out loud today even though I've read it hundreds of times. The only thing that compares is some of the old Marx brothers films.

 

Having never read one perhaps I should try a new reading experience

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Having never read one perhaps I should try a new reading experience

Itll do wonders for yore speling.

 

From memory, the books (written by Geoffrey Willans and deliciously illustrated by Ronald Searle) are Down With Skool, Wizz For Atomms, Back In The Jug Agane and How To Be Topp. I used to have an omnibus edition of all four, but it drove off without me at some stage.

 

I agree with Neil: I found them funny at age ten when I had no experience of independent boarding schools and indeed was scarcely aware of their existence. Little did I suspect that I would later spend some 25 years teaching in that type of school - and I was often reminded of scenes from Molesworth at the various prep schools where I worked.

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Having never read one perhaps I should try a new reading experience

 

Not just that, as other fans will testify part of the genius of these books is the illustrations by Ronald Searle (my favourite is "the skool dog thinking") also you might understand some of the odd references/spleting mistekes that crop up on the forum from time to time, eg "as any fule kno" is a Molesworth-ism.

 

I suspect there's a percentage of the population that don't "get" the humour and it does resonate more if you have had, ahem, a "traditional" education. Those of us who were schooled in the days when corporal punishment was routine will readily identify with the "Table of grips and tortures for masters" for example.

 

The books are all on Kindle these days but IMHO they don't work in that format for some reason.

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