From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 12:25:14 MDT
Head flushing was rare in schools here, typically because the individuals
most people would have wanted to head flush were the fatty lard asses that
no one could push over, never mind invert. Plus the fact that oftentimes
the flush mechanism was broken and hence the bowl was, shall we say,
already holding it's capacity.
As for dunking in general, we worked on a larger scale. Right beside the
Secondary school I attended was an old mill pond (for a long gone gunpowder
factory, IIRC), complete with its own family of swans and some
ducks. Dunking usually consisted of a mob of 10-20 or so chasing the 1st
year students around until exhaustion set in, grabbing the nearest one, and
flinging him bodily into the stream. On occasion (for the big bonus
points) they'd manage to get the swans riled up and watch the hapless child
get pecked and chased.
Then the apple fights of course. Good fun when a teacher took one full
force in the side of the head.
And not forgetting Murderball.
Ah yes, takes me back....
James...
>Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 06:49:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: toilet head dunking
>- --- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > At 07:46 PM 7/7/03 -0700, Spike wrote of what:
> >
> > >happened to you when you were in elementary school
> > >and were seen walking your bike across the street:
> > >they caught you by the ankles and dunked your head
> > >in the toilet.
> >
> > That can't happen in Australia.
> >
> > I was always baffled by the idea until I first visited the States and
> > found to my horror that in most lavatories all the water was sitting
> > there in the bowl, waiting to dunk my balls most clammily (apologies
> > for the `waaay too much information, yeck'), rather than waiting
> > politely above or behind me in the cistern tank. If an Aussie dweeb
> > were head-dunked, all he'd get would be a wet scalp. Better design
> > all round, I'd say.
>Ah, Damien, sounds to me like it would be even more exciting in the
>Aussie version. I am surprised, though, that you were never a victim of
>this recreational activity. Did you perhaps grow up where flushing
>mechanisms were non-existent???
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