Games to play at Kenton Bar School circa 1976
At Kenton Bar School lads used to play 4 games:
a)Football
b)Pile on(jump on a unsuspecting poor sod and force him to the ground shouting "Pile on!...Pile on!"...this would bring a mongol horde of other idiots running who would then jump on top of the fool who had jumped on the poor unsuspecting sod who would 'pile on' them both shouting 'Pile on!...Pile !"(Or was it 'pile on ch-cha-cha?...')This formed a 'pile' of bodies though alive...
The object of this 'game' was to crush the poor sod at the botttom of the pile...
c)Have a 'barny'...now this 'game'appealed to ruffians and bounders from down the bottom like Pea Mullen(See post'Lesser mortals 6 'Pea')
a 'barny' was a fight usually handbags at 40 paces...as soon as it started everyone crowded round shouting''Barny!...Barny!' until it was broken up by teckas...
Now sometimes proper naughty nadsats like Pea would attempt to start up a barny with kids from St Cuthberts across the field as in those days there was no fence...these naughty malchicks would form like mini armys and invade via the ditch to the north of the field hoping to meet up in no mans land beside the hedge running right up the field... however, once spotted by eagle eyed dinnerladies with jam-jar glasses they would be pursued by these furious waddling creatures creeching and bawling blue- murder at them to get their filthy carcasses back to school, shaking angry rookers(fists that is)at them and whipping and driving them back across the border with brutal tolchocks(whacks) to the nape of their filthy necks and poke-poke-poking them in the small of their vonning(stinking) backs to get a move on...skorry(quickly)like...powerful bruise-boys those dinner ladies in them days...(aside:anyone remember Dunny v Lambsy?...)
d) Try to star climb up the gap betwixt the cylindrical shaped storage unit attached to the side of the classroom at the bottom east of the school...
Please note I meinself only indulged in a) as I was a sensible cub scout type...but Ive told you about that before...anyone remember any other 'games'?...
As for the lasses, all I remember them doing was that they used to sing a song about Diana Doors which had a dance routine that went with it...
The song went:
'I'm Diana Doors,
and I'm a movie star,
I'm a long legged woman,
with a playtex bra,
I've got the hips, the lips, the legs of the show,
I've got the hips, the lips, the legs of the show...
Thats why they call me Diana Doors!
(The lads used to do a ghastly parody of this...)
a)Football
b)Pile on(jump on a unsuspecting poor sod and force him to the ground shouting "Pile on!...Pile on!"...this would bring a mongol horde of other idiots running who would then jump on top of the fool who had jumped on the poor unsuspecting sod who would 'pile on' them both shouting 'Pile on!...Pile !"(Or was it 'pile on ch-cha-cha?...')This formed a 'pile' of bodies though alive...
The object of this 'game' was to crush the poor sod at the botttom of the pile...
c)Have a 'barny'...now this 'game'appealed to ruffians and bounders from down the bottom like Pea Mullen(See post'Lesser mortals 6 'Pea')
a 'barny' was a fight usually handbags at 40 paces...as soon as it started everyone crowded round shouting''Barny!...Barny!' until it was broken up by teckas...
Now sometimes proper naughty nadsats like Pea would attempt to start up a barny with kids from St Cuthberts across the field as in those days there was no fence...these naughty malchicks would form like mini armys and invade via the ditch to the north of the field hoping to meet up in no mans land beside the hedge running right up the field... however, once spotted by eagle eyed dinnerladies with jam-jar glasses they would be pursued by these furious waddling creatures creeching and bawling blue- murder at them to get their filthy carcasses back to school, shaking angry rookers(fists that is)at them and whipping and driving them back across the border with brutal tolchocks(whacks) to the nape of their filthy necks and poke-poke-poking them in the small of their vonning(stinking) backs to get a move on...skorry(quickly)like...powerful bruise-boys those dinner ladies in them days...(aside:anyone remember Dunny v Lambsy?...)
d) Try to star climb up the gap betwixt the cylindrical shaped storage unit attached to the side of the classroom at the bottom east of the school...
Please note I meinself only indulged in a) as I was a sensible cub scout type...but Ive told you about that before...anyone remember any other 'games'?...
As for the lasses, all I remember them doing was that they used to sing a song about Diana Doors which had a dance routine that went with it...
The song went:
'I'm Diana Doors,
and I'm a movie star,
I'm a long legged woman,
with a playtex bra,
I've got the hips, the lips, the legs of the show,
I've got the hips, the lips, the legs of the show...
Thats why they call me Diana Doors!
(The lads used to do a ghastly parody of this...)
That sounds about the size of it. The only fad I remember at High School was playing blazer tennis during Wimbledon fortnight.
ReplyDelete(Blazer tennis- pulled your arm up the sleeve and clenched the cuff as a makeshift crap tennis bat).
There was the ongoing male knicker-spotting pastime of course, plenty of opportunity with all those walls & tiered concrete slabs round the playgrounds.
If you wanted to climb up the cupboard thing you took a risk of being spotted from the Head's office if you tried to climb from the North side.
ReplyDelete(It wasn't circular, more like rectangular with semi-circular ends).
Yes indeed, so most kids attempted to star climb from the south side facing the field, the only risk being spotted by eagle eyed dinnerladies with jam-jar glasses(there was one who did look like this with white curly hair...she had the horrible habit of seeming to be looking one way but could actually see you the opposite way, chameleon like...)only a complete nutter would attempt to climb from the north for fear of office eyes and Mr Johnstone's eyes...
ReplyDeleteOur ditty was:
ReplyDelete'Oh, you'll never get to heaven on a Playtex bra, 'cos a Playtex bra won't stretch that far.'
Full extended remix here.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite pastimes were:
ReplyDelete1. Following Gary Brown around the playground pretending to film him with a hand cranked imaginary film camera
2. Riding said Gary around the playground like a horse
I NEVER tired of the above.
you should have invited Harry Cough Cough's daughter to play the horse game!...(I no not of this Gary Brown veck...)
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