Arthur Lowe biography

Been reading nothing but comedy biogs for the last 3 years or so and the current one I have just started is Arthur Lowe's.

Page 10 - a contemporary of his who went to the same school in the early 1920s:-

"There used to be a punishment book, and if you went in it more than once you had to go to the headmaster. I remember a lad being caught smoking in the toilets, and the whole school had to assemble. The lad had to drop his pants and bend over a table. He said 'Let this be a lesson to all of you'."

Read into that what you will.

I assume he made him smoke the whole packet with his arse

I seem to recall that there was quite a lot about corporal punishment in Roald Dahl's first autobiography, Boy. Ditto in Stephen Fry's Moab Is My Washpot, I've never looked at Vaseline in the same way since....

Quote: DougWonnacott @ 22nd August 2014, 12:48 PM BST

I assume he made him smoke the whole packet with his arse

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If that was the case, I bet he was glad he was caught smoking a Woodbine and not a big fat Havana cigar..... >_<

Quote: TheBlueNun @ 22nd August 2014, 1:16 PM BST

I seem to recall that there was quite a lot about corporal punishment in Roald Dahl's first autobiography, Boy. Ditto in Stephen Fry's Moab Is My Washpot, I've never looked at Vaseline in the same way since....

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As Neil might say "What a bummer"