Abingdon School (no.25 in GB)actually number 1 in UK.
Simon Rushton
In article <5e7hji$a...@cherry.news.easynet.net>, lazen
<la...@shootnsurf.co.uk> writes
>Here are some reason why Abingdon School in fact produces
>the best old school pupils in the nation:
And here is why my vote goes to Grange Hill
>Its head is or was now Head of Eton,
>And Prince Charles personal tutor,
Mark (Tucker) has gone on to deal really well with being HIV
positive.... and his sister really dealt well with teenage pregnancy
>It has one of the highest Oxbridge forwardees anywhere in GB.
Grange Hill has never produced (as far as I'm aware) any gay Russian
Spies
>Its pupils are not hidebound by tradition and convention
>and come from successful well off upper middle class families.
Grange Hill took anyone.. deffinately not traditionalists. Mainly good
working class stock.... with a reasonably wide gene pool.
>It has a lively CCF .totally loyal and pure.
Grange Hill wouldn't know what a CCF was.... playing soldiers was
strictly left to soldiers... robbing sweet shops was an exercise in
precise military planning
>Its masters are war heroes who killed many Germans in both
>world wars,
I'm glad to hear killing people is still seen as something to boast
about.
>It has very few low grade or underachieving pupils.
.... they all went to acting school and played low grade underachievers.
(You sir are a snob!)
>Its graduates have exceptionally high morla standards
I'm sure some did.... I'm sure some didn't. Grange Hill however always
held the moral high ground
>intilligence and have diets of French cuisine rather than your usual
>big Mac and chipos crowd.
I think you'll find it's Big Mac and FRENCH FRIES! Quelle Domage...
hoisted by your own petard. (A french bomb)
>It has been going since 1563,
Grange Hills bell always went at 15:45
>And will weather a few more storms.
>Sport isnt so important at the scholl
>nowadays
? A bit like the way spelling doesn't have the same kind of importance
attached to it?
>but the high calibre of
>minds makes up for this.In fact there are many other factors
>making Old Abingdonians THE ideal choice for country running
>or any other long distance running for that matter
For example running to get away from this pretentious tosh..
>Choose Old A. and not OK (Old Kimboltian) or OLD
>Radley or Eton or Hawow.ABINGDON for Prime Ministers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
Choose Grange Hill..... and enjoy endless repeats on Sunday Mornings
What's this got to do with the news groups it's been spammed on?
Simon Rushton
(Ex-Public School Boy but tired of this kind of snobbery)
N Benson
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:00:45 GMT, la...@shootnsurf.co.uk (lazen) wrote:
>Here are some reason why Abingdon School in fact produces
>the best old school pupils in the nation:
>Its head is or was now Head of Eton,
>And Prince Charles personal tutor,
>It has one of the highest Oxbridge forwardees anywhere in GB.
>Its pupils are not hidebound by tradition and convention
etc. etc.
I take all this garbage to mean that you come from Abingdon school. Do they
happen to teach spilling and rethmatic ? Perhaps pinctuation aswell ? Maybe if
they could teach these simple subjects better, they may become No. 1. I wouldn't
be too surprised if they weren't actually lower than 25.
N Benson.
lazen
Here are some reason why Abingdon School in fact produces
the best old school pupils in the nation:
Its head is or was now Head of Eton,
And Prince Charles personal tutor,
It has one of the highest Oxbridge forwardees anywhere in GB.
Its pupils are not hidebound by tradition and convention
world wars,
big Mac and chipos crowd.
Sport isnt so important at the scholl nowadays but the high calibre of
minds makes up for this.In fact there are many other factors
making Old Abingdonians THE ideal choice for country running
or any other long distance running for that matter
Alex Loh
In article <5e7hji$a...@cherry.news.easynet.net>
la...@shootnsurf.co.uk "lazen" writes:
> Here are some reason why Abingdon School in fact produces
> the best old school pupils in the nation:
<snipped>
Bah. Oxfordshire's youth don't need people like you for role models when
the region has such fine upstanding gentlemen as Wesley Smith - a
veritable paragon of journalistic integrity, sincerity, fashion sense and
worth ten of your upper class windbags... :)
Alex
[who went to prep school, and hated every day of it. Upper class version
of a secure unit for 12 year olds.]
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