Martin wrote:
:: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:45:48 +0100, "Miss Perspicacia Tick"
:: wrote:
::
::: Kay wrote:
:::: In article ,
:::: Phil L writes
::::: Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:
:::::::
::::::: Obviously R.E. wasn't on the syllabus at whatever school it
::::::: was you attended...
:::::
::::: It was but they didn't teach us about Latin / Italian / Greek
::::: spellings for obscure plants, it was more about God, Yahweh,
::::: Iseraelites and such likes, what a strange school you must have
::::: attended. :-p
:::: Maybe it's a girls' school thing - you mean you didn't get the
:::: biblical story about Jesus referring to Peter as his 'rock' (or
:::: something like that ...)?
:::
::: Not only was it an all girls' school - it was a convent (The
::: Sisters of the Holy Cross)! R.E. was compulsory up to O Level.
::: Now, it's not a convent (the nuns have been put out to pasture)
::: and they accept boys in the nursery and infants. All the nuns
::: were Sister Mary somebody-or-other - apart from the headmistress
::: who was Sister Kevin Arthur Russell. It wasn't until recently I
::: learned that there really /was/ a St Kevin - but I cannot find a
::: St Arthur, nor a St Russell (some things I've read have canonised
::: King Arthur but how can he be a saint when he didn't exist?).
:::
::: Sorry to drag this even more OT. ;o)
::
:: Are you sure that Kevin Arthur Russell wasn't in drag?

My thoughts exactly!


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