Seated one day at the organ
Many Oxford colleges have an organ scholar, who gets a fairly substantial amount of money and a nice room in college for three years in exchange for playing for services and, often, conducting the chapel choir. My old college appointed a new organ scholar some years ago, who, shortly after the contracts had been signed, told them that he was Jewish and his Rabbi had just told him he wasn't allowed to pray for Christian services. He got the money and the room for three year while a friend of mine was paid to do all the actual organ playing and conducting.
(ubergeekian, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 14:17, 7 replies)

Crafty fecker
The boy has style. The junior organ scholar during my time was stripped of his scholarship and eventually sent down for being a bone idle plagiarist.
( .Yeti., Thu 6 Sep 2012, 14:24, closed)

Classic Jewing, getting a load of money for nothing.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 14:26, closed)

Like
All those free showers they had and all that?
(Deskbound You insignificant speck of dust, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 15:03, closed)

I think the legal department
need teaching in how to draft a contract. Surely there was some obligation on his part?
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 16:37, closed)

Is there a record of previous incumbents?
My sister once dated a guy who (from what I gleaned) was one of these. She went to Newnham, I think he was called Justin or Julian.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 6 Sep 2012, 20:08, closed)

He wouldn't have been organist at Newnham.

(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 10:51, closed)

'Seated at the organ'
You're basically admitting to being a rent boy here, right?
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 21:35, closed)