EccentricsWe all know someone who's a little bit strange - Mum's UFO abduction secret, or the mad Uncle who isn't allowed within 400 yards of Noel Edmonds.
Tell us about your family eccentrics, or just those you've met but don't think you're related to.
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chthonic, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 19:08)
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PhysicsTwo months from going on study leave for my GCSEs, my physics teacher retired. He was replaced by a temp who'd actually taken part in setting the exam.
In the first lesson with the new guy, we went through the syllabus to see what needed to be done. We'd covered roughly one-third of it.
We'd spent the previous 18 months arsing around with lenses and tickertape timers. But most of the time - and I do mean a HUGE proportion of two academic years - was devoted to a very long, very involved, shaggy-dog story about an octopus.
It was like being taught by Laurence Sterne.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 11:48,
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godyour teacher wasn't mr roy too was it? although we tended to hear more about pyramids (as in the ancient egyptian ones) than anything else, when he wasn't waffling on about bloody ticker tape.
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ascorbate, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 12:31,
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NopeA bloke called Brian Coupe. Lovely in every possible way - but about as much use as an asbestos gas-mask.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 13:54,
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And I thought spending about a month on resistors in parallel was too much.(
idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 31 Oct 2008, 19:51,
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