Banana skin/school pearoast
In about 1972, during a little pre-class skylarking, I used a ruler to catapult a banana skin across the classroom.

Instead of hitting my mate square in the face as intended, it flew upwards and wrapped itself around a metal roof girder. We were on the top floor and the room had a high pitched ceiling so I couldn't possibly reach it.

I spent the lesson in awed fascination, waiting for the skin to slip off and land on the teacher's head immediately below.

It didn't though, not that lesson or the next or ever. It stayed on its beam, growing blacker and more shrivelled as time went on.

Years later I visited the classroom when my own kids were pupils there and saw the banana skin, painted over but still recognisable to those in the know. Well, me. Never told a soul.

A few years after that during renovations the roof was boxed in, probably to improve insulation, ensuring that the 'nana skin will remain undisturbed forever.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 11 Oct 2010, 13:43, 2 replies)

Like a pharaoh in a tomb of ceiling insulation grave goods.

(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 9:20, closed)

Hahahaha!
Yup, exactly so.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 17:28, closed)