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...the many things that you remember as a kid or teenager...

Ooh remembering in high school, the art classroom was right above the teachers' carpark. Bad, bad idea whoever designed our school.

Many a teacher's car got bombed with clay balls. I of course would never dream of doing such a dastardly thing:angelic: (believe that and the sun comes out at night)
 
...I remember when I was in a Science class at School and was etching my name into the Science bench that I was sitting at with Hydrochloric Acid and suddenly my Science teacher grabbed one of my sideburns in front of my ear and slow pulled it upwards really slowly (bloody hell that used to hurt) and he told me to slowly put the small Acid bottle down... I gently put it down and then he whacked the back of my hand with my own bloody ruler!... (cheeky sod!)... I was then sent to the Science Masters office and was given '6 of the best'... (6 lashes of the cane on the hands)... as well as 'Detention' and 'Lines' to boot!...

...I remember being at the School Sports Carnival and was entered in a long distance 'cross-country' race (I didn't do it voluntarily... it was to get out of having a different '6 of the best' and 'Detention')... (I definitely can't tell you what THAT one was for lol!)... anyhow... I couldn't be bothered to run around and just 'mosied' around the rather long bush tracks because I just couldn't be arsed... as I finally got to the edge of the bushtrack and where it led onto the oval for the finish line I started to run for the effect... anyhow... because I had taken so long to get around the course my race had ended and the second (even longer) cross-country race was being run just behind me... the best runner in the School was leading the pack as always and I decided to have some fun... I started bolting for the finishing line of HIS race to make it look like I was out-running him!... the whole School was cheering me on just because someone was finally beating the running champ of the School for once... (cue the music from 'Chariots of Fire)... I ran and ran and ran with the whole School going crazy... they were all jumping up and down and were collectively willing me to win the race... I beat him by about 6 feet and was crowned in glory for a few brief minutes until the teachers got wind of what I did... yes you guessed it... I was sent to the Headmasters office...

...I remember that we used to capture the big blowflies that used to buzz against the windows at School and we used to tie some cotton line around their necks (not too tight because for some reasons or other their heads would be chopped off... strange that eh?)... anyhow... once we had done that we would tie the other end to our rulers so that they just flew around and around in circles like Helicopters... after a while of watching it I got bored didn't I?... what I then did was I picked up the ruler and leaned forward to the girl in front of me and let the blowfly fly into her hair while it was still attached to the ruler... well for some strange reason she screamed her head off and suddenly stood up while I was still holding the ruler and when she moved forward the blowfly's head was decapitated and was moving around in her rather long hair in it's death throes... she was screaming and crying and running around the classroom while our teacher was trying to get the head out of her hair... the whole class was laughing at it which didn't help my cause of trying to plead innocence in the whole incident... needless to say yet again... I was sent to the Headmasters office!... (jeez I really was a little shit wasn't I?) ... cheers.
 
I remember playing in a playground made of wood, which was like having a big castle all to yourselves. Usually had a slide that was yellow. They were so much fun, looks so much better than the playgrounds you see these days, basically all about exercise than fun.
 
...I remember when I was in a Science class at School and was etching my name into the Science bench that I was sitting at with Hydrochloric Acid and suddenly my Science teacher grabbed one of my sideburns in front of my ear and slow pulled it upwards really slowly (bloody hell that used to hurt) and he told me to slowly put the small Acid bottle down... I gently put it down and then he whacked the back of my hand with my own bloody ruler!... (cheeky sod!)... I was then sent to the Science Masters office and was given '6 of the best'... (6 lashes of the cane on the hands)... as well as 'Detention' and 'Lines' to boot!...

...I remember being at the School Sports Carnival and was entered in a long distance 'cross-country' race (I didn't do it voluntarily... it was to get out of having a different '6 of the best' and 'Detention')... (I definitely can't tell you what THAT one was for lol!)... anyhow... I couldn't be bothered to run around and just 'mosied' around the rather long bush tracks because I just couldn't be arsed... as I finally got to the edge of the bushtrack and where it led onto the oval for the finish line I started to run for the effect... anyhow... because I had taken so long to get around the course my race had ended and the second (even longer) cross-country race was being run just behind me... the best runner in the School was leading the pack as always and I decided to have some fun... I started bolting for the finishing line of HIS race to make it look like I was out-running him!... the whole School was cheering me on just because someone was finally beating the running champ of the School for once... (cue the music from 'Chariots of Fire)... I ran and ran and ran with the whole School going crazy... they were all jumping up and down and were collectively willing me to win the race... I beat him by about 6 feet and was crowned in glory for a few brief minutes until the teachers got wind of what I did... yes you guessed it... I was sent to the Headmasters office...

...I remember that we used to capture the big blowflies that used to buzz against the windows at School and we used to tie some cotton line around their necks (not too tight because for some reasons or other their heads would be chopped off... strange that eh?)... anyhow... once we had done that we would tie the other end to our rulers so that they just flew around and around in circles like Helicopters... after a while of watching it I got bored didn't I?... what I then did was I picked up the ruler and leaned forward to the girl in front of me and let the blowfly fly into her hair while it was still attached to the ruler... well for some strange reason she screamed her head off and suddenly stood up while I was still holding the ruler and when she moved forward the blowfly's head was decapitated and was moving around in her rather long hair in it's death throes... she was screaming and crying and running around the classroom while our teacher was trying to get the head out of her hair... the whole class was laughing at it which didn't help my cause of trying to plead innocence in the whole incident... needless to say yet again... I was sent to the Headmasters office!... (jeez I really was a little shit wasn't I?) ... cheers.

I literally have tears rolling down my face from laughing at your school shenanigans.

Bloody classic.:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
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...I remember when on the first day of me being at High School that we were all given a piece of paper and told to take it home and get our parents to each give a sample signature so that when they send letters to home to tell them when I had got into some sort of trouble or to get permission to go on School excursions or be excused for doing things that when they get it back it's proof that they had read it... seriously... how stupid is that?... all I did was to forge both of my parents signatures and did a copy of them for myself so as to 'allow' me to go on excursions... get out of P.E. or to sign letters to say that they had read them and that they had 'chastised' me for my actions... it wasn't hard for me to figure that one out lol!...

...I remember trying to stop my parents from going to our School's 'Parent/Teachers' night but they were so determined to go regardless of my efforts... they thought that because they had never had letters from School that I was a good studious student... whenever they spoke to my teachers I tried to steer them in a different direction by talking over my teacher and actually praising the teacher himself/herself about how great THEY are rather than talk about me... most times they bought it and accepted the accolades from me until we moved on but one teacher... my Maths teacher wouldn't buy it... he told them several rather incriminating stories about me directly to their faces... while he did I just kept winking at mum and dad... when he had unloaded all of his volley we moved on... as soon as we were away from him I told them that he was just a twisted and bitter old fogie that was about to retire and was letting it out on the students before he goes and that was all it was about... I said the real reason that he was going was not because he was 'retiring' but because the School had so many complaints about how nasty a teacher he is with all of the students that the School had no choice but to 'retire' him against his will... hence the reason that he is so nasty towards me/us... (I'm glad that my parents never went to another one... he was still there when I left 3-4 years later lol!)... anyhow they accepted what I had told them and said something like... "it's just as well he's going... what a terrible teacher"... or something similar... I certainly 'dodged a bullet' there lol!...

...I remember that our School train used to go by the Meatworks factory on the way to School and on the way home every day... in the mid hot summer days the stench made you want to heave... we always tried to hold our breath as we went past it but you never could all the way... Urgh!... :yuck::wtf::mad::(... cheers.
 
my father put my son on a slide (slippery dip to you!) (thankfully a plastic one) not realising he'd recently filled his disposable nappy :woot:

son moved down the slide ... nappy didn't move too far ... Grandad moved VERY fast to catch nappy and all that was inside and son and call out "ummmmmm Crimmmmmmmyyyyy"
lesson learnt - always check grandchild has pants on OVER disposable AND nappy isn't "full" before sending them down slide
;)


also imagine what they'd think if they knew we rode our bikes around without helmets on ... and rode in cars with no safety belts / restraints of ANY kind ... or going for rides in Dad's trailer ...

...^^^^... :hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:... that is sooooo funny!... cheers.
 
Lol Mr S, your parents were the ultimate pranksters as far as I am concerned. Glad you still have that tash (laughing at the thought of you trying to trim it whilst drunk).:laugh:

You do know how green with envy I am of you having seen David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust at the Glass Spider concert. I recently read a book about him and a few weeks ago, "Rage" on ABC had about 5 hrs of his music playing non-stop. We have great taste in music eh?;)

I am really enjoying reading other peoples posts here too. That wallpaper is hysterical and so very kitschy which suits me just fine:thumbsup:

...yes he was awesome GROOVER... I like all of his music because it is so varied... and yes!... we do both have great taste in music lol!... 'kitschy'... I like that description of it... that describes it exactly lol!... cheers.
 
Ooh remembering in high school, the art classroom was right above the teachers' carpark. Bad, bad idea whoever designed our school.

Many a teacher's car got bombed with clay balls. I of course would never dream of doing such a dastardly thing:angelic: (believe that and the sun comes out at night)

...hahaha!... they were just asking for it weren't they?... lol!... yeah... riiiiiiiiight!... lol!... cheers.
 
I remember playing in a playground made of wood, which was like having a big castle all to yourselves. Usually had a slide that was yellow. They were so much fun, looks so much better than the playgrounds you see these days, basically all about exercise than fun.

...aw man!... that sounds so awesome BigBrotherCritic... I would've killed to play in something like that as a kid... you lucky devil!... cheers.
 
...I remember when I was in a Science class at School and was etching my name into the Science bench that I was sitting at with Hydrochloric Acid and suddenly my Science teacher grabbed one of my sideburns in front of my ear and slow pulled it upwards really slowly (bloody hell that used to hurt) and he told me to slowly put the small Acid bottle down... I gently put it down and then he whacked the back of my hand with my own bloody ruler!... (cheeky sod!)... I was then sent to the Science Masters office and was given '6 of the best'... (6 lashes of the cane on the hands)... as well as 'Detention' and 'Lines' to boot!...

...I remember being at the School Sports Carnival and was entered in a long distance 'cross-country' race (I didn't do it voluntarily... it was to get out of having a different '6 of the best' and 'Detention')... (I definitely can't tell you what THAT one was for lol!)... anyhow... I couldn't be bothered to run around and just 'mosied' around the rather long bush tracks because I just couldn't be arsed... as I finally got to the edge of the bushtrack and where it led onto the oval for the finish line I started to run for the effect... anyhow... because I had taken so long to get around the course my race had ended and the second (even longer) cross-country race was being run just behind me... the best runner in the School was leading the pack as always and I decided to have some fun... I started bolting for the finishing line of HIS race to make it look like I was out-running him!... the whole School was cheering me on just because someone was finally beating the running champ of the School for once... (cue the music from 'Chariots of Fire)... I ran and ran and ran with the whole School going crazy... they were all jumping up and down and were collectively willing me to win the race... I beat him by about 6 feet and was crowned in glory for a few brief minutes until the teachers got wind of what I did... yes you guessed it... I was sent to the Headmasters office...

...I remember that we used to capture the big blowflies that used to buzz against the windows at School and we used to tie some cotton line around their necks (not too tight because for some reasons or other their heads would be chopped off... strange that eh?)... anyhow... once we had done that we would tie the other end to our rulers so that they just flew around and around in circles like Helicopters... after a while of watching it I got bored didn't I?... what I then did was I picked up the ruler and leaned forward to the girl in front of me and let the blowfly fly into her hair while it was still attached to the ruler... well for some strange reason she screamed her head off and suddenly stood up while I was still holding the ruler and when she moved forward the blowfly's head was decapitated and was moving around in her rather long hair in it's death throes... she was screaming and crying and running around the classroom while our teacher was trying to get the head out of her hair... the whole class was laughing at it which didn't help my cause of trying to plead innocence in the whole incident... needless to say yet again... I was sent to the Headmasters office!... (jeez I really was a little shit wasn't I?) ... cheers.

Lol!!! You were a menace. These stories are hilarious! I would have hated to be on the other end of your pranks lol
 
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...I remember that our School train used to go by the Meatworks factory on the way to School and on the way home every day... in the mid hot summer days the stench made you want to heave... we always tried to hold our breath as we went past it but you never could all the way... Urgh!... :yuck::wtf::mad::(... cheers.

Was that at Homebush? Could have been the tip, they built the stadium on?
 
I remember as a kid my mum decided whether we should get vhs or beta. Right choice made ;)

I remember when we got an Atari and we all spent hours and hours playing that thing.

My folks got a betamax. We used to go to the video shop & we had a teeny tiny section of videos to choose from and the rest of the shop had rows and rows and rows of VHS.

I still have my Atari. Don't know if it even still works or not. I remember being sick off school and playing pacman all day until I clocked it. The score just turned back to zero & I was crushed. These days I coulda took a screen shot lol
 
...I remember when I was... I don't know... 18 or 19 maybe... that my brother and I asked mum and dad if we could wallpaper our bedroom and that we would pay for the wallpaper and we would do all of the work... they happily said... "yes!"... really quickly because they weren't paying for it... bad mistake... when we did it we wouldn't allow them to see it until we had finished it... we finally got it done and we were so proud of ourselves and were grinning like Cheshire Cats... when we let them come in to see it they were greeted by 164 topless women!... (yes we counted them)... lol!... mum was horrified and dad laughed his head off!... mum got the shits with dad because he laughed and then he turned to us to tell us off for doing it lol!... here is the only actual photo of the wallpaper and me at around 18 or 19 methinks... (that's my hair just after I got in cut really short from my waistline up to my shoulders that I was telling you all about before lol!)...

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...years later (after we had moved out)... they had decided to make the bedroom into a sewing room type of thing and mum and dad decided to get us back for us putting up that wallpaper...one day they rang us at our respective homes and asked the both of us around to their house... we had our wives with us... as we walked in mum and dad sat my brother and I down and were really serious when they started to talk to us.. they said something like... "boys... we've been sort of putting this away for you two for quite a long time now and have come to a decision to hand this to you now... don't waste it... here you are"...

...they handed us two envelopes that looked like they had wads of banded cash in them... they were so thick and we both instantly thought... "oh wow!... we're rich!"... (I even had a new car picked out in my head within 2 seconds flat)... lol!... we both did a little 'thankyou' types of speech and opened the envelopes...

...they had taken almost a week to take the time to cut up the old wallpaper from our bedroom with nothing but a pair of scissors and a ruler and pen into the exact size of $50 dollar notes and had even taken the time to band them all together just so that it would look like massive wads of cash!... (there went my new car!)... lol!...

...I will never forget their howls of laughter that seemed to go on for hours... both my brother and I were completely red faced as our wives and even my sister (she was in on it the rotten thing) laughed at us... lol!... I felt such a complete tit!... (pun intended)... after we recovered from shock my brother and I tipped our hats off to them for fooling us so well... how they didn't laugh when they were handing those massive 'wads of cash' to us I'll never know lol!... they did it so straight faced... that was so clever of them to do that so well to us lol!... to fool me like that is such a rarity but they did it and they did it so well!... :thumbsup::biggrin::) cheers.

OMFG @Mr Stickyfingers that is amazing haha!! Your Mum & Dad sound like absolutely fantastic people. I'm really enjoying reading about your escapades. Much laughing going on here. Brilliant stuff & brilliant thread :D
 
...I remember when on the first day of me being at High School that we were all given a piece of paper and told to take it home and get our parents to each give a sample signature so that when they send letters to home to tell them when I had got into some sort of trouble or to get permission to go on School excursions or be excused for doing things that when they get it back it's proof that they had read it... seriously... how stupid is that?... all I did was to forge both of my parents signatures and did a copy of them for myself so as to 'allow' me to go on excursions... get out of P.E. or to sign letters to say that they had read them and that they had 'chastised' me for my actions... it wasn't hard for me to figure that one out lol!...

...I remember trying to stop my parents from going to our School's 'Parent/Teachers' night but they were so determined to go regardless of my efforts... they thought that because they had never had letters from School that I was a good studious student... whenever they spoke to my teachers I tried to steer them in a different direction by talking over my teacher and actually praising the teacher himself/herself about how great THEY are rather than talk about me... most times they bought it and accepted the accolades from me until we moved on but one teacher... my Maths teacher wouldn't buy it... he told them several rather incriminating stories about me directly to their faces... while he did I just kept winking at mum and dad... when he had unloaded all of his volley we moved on... as soon as we were away from him I told them that he was just a twisted and bitter old fogie that was about to retire and was letting it out on the students before he goes and that was all it was about... I said the real reason that he was going was not because he was 'retiring' but because the School had so many complaints about how nasty a teacher he is with all of the students that the School had no choice but to 'retire' him against his will... hence the reason that he is so nasty towards me/us... (I'm glad that my parents never went to another one... he was still there when I left 3-4 years later lol!)... anyhow they accepted what I had told them and said something like... "it's just as well he's going... what a terrible teacher"... or something similar... I certainly 'dodged a bullet' there lol!...

...I remember that our School train used to go by the Meatworks factory on the way to School and on the way home every day... in the mid hot summer days the stench made you want to heave... we always tried to hold our breath as we went past it but you never could all the way... Urgh!... :yuck::wtf::mad::(... cheers.

You know, you could publish all your shenanigans and it would be a #1 bestseller.

That poor Teacher (cheeky you).
 
Insomniac said:
Lol!!! You were a menace. These stories are hilarious! I would have hated to be on the other end of your pranks lol
...haha!... me too lol!...

yeah he should have been named Dennis!

...hahahaha!... that was my dads name hooleydooley!...

Was that at Homebush? Could have been the tip, they built the stadium on?

...no... it was the Riverstone Meatworks near Windsor NSW... there was a big fire in it once and a mate that used to be in one of my classes died because he was trying to free lambs that were about to be slaughtered because apparently he didn't think that they should die in such an inhumane way... they were all trapped in the building... a big roof beam came down on him and killed him instantly the poor guy... he was a good mate too... that really cut into me at that age... he had freed most of the lambs too from what we were told... he went back for the last few stragglers that were panicking apparently... it's such a sad result... cheers.
 
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