| Rugby School!!!! |
| ... So I went to Rugby School - one of the oldest Public School in the UK! I didn't particularly enjoy being immersed in the old British tradition, but during these 2 years I've experienced a lot of fascinating things.... Oh, here is a list of "Rugby-Speak"... they are still used, believe me or not! Bags - sporting colours Beak - Master (or Mistress) Bimbags - swimming trunks Bodger - Headmaster Boomer - Chapel Bell Bug - Library Cock House match - final of the relevant team's inter-house major sport competition Copy - award for exceptional work Cut - unexcused leave from a lesson Dodgers - half backs in rugby football Ends - cricket nets Foiking - heeling in the ball, in rugby football Fall - house dining room, OR pupils immediately junior to the House Sixth Holder of the Bigside Bags - captain of cross country Horseboxes - seats at the back of TSR Levee - School prefect NBS - New Big School or New Bigside (1st XI cricket pitch) OBS - Old Big School or Old Bigside (1st XV rugby pitch) Old Guard - team of masters and or mistresses Pontines - 2nd XV rugby pitch Puntabout - kicking a rugby ball around Rot up - disorderly hilarity, OR provoke or participate in such conduct Running Acros - in Cock House rugby, if a player ran from one side to the other, the game was immediately stopped and all players ran across to the player and fell on him Shinning - kicking in Rugby, usually a form of malice achieved in the scrum Sixth - a House prefect Socks - sporting awared inferior to bags Speckle - demote a House Sixth (originally House Sixth were entitled to wear boaters made of plain straw, whereas non-Sixth wore boaters of speckled straw) Stodge - the School tuck shop Stripe - demote a Levee Tie - cricket equivalent of bags Topos - lavatory tosh - any bath, or to bathe Tosh - the swimming pool, or to bathe in the Tosh TRR - Temple Reading Room, the School library TSR - Temple Speech Room, the School's assembly and concert room Turn - What happens to bad work - you have to do it again Young Guard - junior team representing the School XI, XXII (the eleven, the twenty two) - first and second cricket elevens |
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| They are "Levees" - it was a hocky match where they all had to dress up like.... oh well, it's obvious, right!? The guy to the right, I think his name was Nick, had the most gorgious legs... |