Who remembers 999 life savers????
I can recall one episode a lad went running out on to the sports field only to turn around to find a javelin poking out of his neck.

Well, this plagued my adolescent dreams because one day, about a year previous to seeing this television programme, whilst smoking down the field. I was the sporty type you can tell, my friends and I found a stray javelin.

We threw it over the fence, after school went an picked it up.

Oh, the fun you can have with a javelin. We took it down the woods threw it at targets, used it for 'spear fishing' stabing cray fish mainly. We invented a 'game' called poker where one would climb a tree and the others would stand at the bottom with the javelin trying to poke the person up the tree other people would also be throwing stones at tree to 'encourage' the pokee in to pokeable reach.

When I thought about it after seeing that programme. BTW I am not a big person now so when I was 13 girl I was little at the best of times, jumping maybe 3 meters out of a tree with a bunch of other 13 year olds beneath one weilding a javelin scared the shit out of me.

But fear not I never got a javlin through the neck or any other part of me.

Before you start I know it is off the subject.

On subject!

Modern Dance - Like PE just more embrassing.

Take a number 11-16 year olds, insist they wear skin tight lycra, put in a room with full length mirrors at either end and ceiling to floor windows either side.

One windowed side over lookes the car park, anyone arriving/departing even just walking past the school can see you, other windowed side over looked about 15 class rooms.

Prance kids prance!
(Free pens 100, 101, 102 is still counting on, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 15:43, 5 replies)

Funny enough
my brother managed to spear someone when using the javelin, but only got the chap through the leg...
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 15:48, closed)

There was always the warning story in PE lessons at school about some previous pupil running to collect a javelin and didn't see it 'til it went into their eye. Having compared notes with others at uni it seems somewhat of an urban myth.

Just saying.
(Captain Kenneth 's Greatest Hits on sale now, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 15:57, closed)

I saw it on television
it must be true! Michael Burke is no lier.
(Free pens 100, 101, 102 is still counting on, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 16:24, closed)

We had one like that
She died or something.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 20 Nov 2009, 20:18, closed)

I was hit in the back of the head by a javelin when I was at school
It's not as serious as it sounds as I was holding it at the time - my pathetic weedy 12-year old wrist didn't keep it straight as my arm came forward, and I managed to twat myself on the noggin.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 16:49, closed)