Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society Elevenses Meeting, held on the 17/5/2003 in E1 Buckingham Court, Magdalene.
Present: Owen, Rosy, Rachel C, Rachel H, Jonathon, Dunstan, Jack, Neil, Alison, Naath, Roz, Katie
Apologies: Jenny, Rosie, Ecstatic, Roz, Martin
- Meeting opened by Owen.
- The taking of minutes is delegated to the under-secretary as she doesn’t suffer from exams,
- Everything is forgiven.
- Jonathon has never seen anybody die of Malburgh.
- Accounts are horrid. Does this extend to treasurers?
- "I’m the black mug - well I’m not I’m me." Roz
- "The tea bag is not a mug it’s a tea bag." Owen
- Dunstan is beneath Roz.
- We are not going to pass any ridiculous motions: Passed
- Votes to censor anyone who isn’t here and didn’t apologise and Martin: Passed
- Votes to censor Martin for being Martin: Passed
- As suicide is illegal, should it be prevented by shooting people before they can commit it?
- Being Baptized in chocolate - "That’s my idea of a religion" Alison
- We must say "ooh lovely" when eating the custard creams: Passed
- Custard creams are quite nice if you don’t like them: Passed
- 13 dunks for the custard cream before breaking.
- Roz tries to buy votes for the digestives with chocolatety things.
- We need a dunking machine.
- 7 dunks for the digestive.
- "I could have so much fun hanging him" Neil
- We want Neil to be well hung: Passed
- We should censor someone who’s not in the society to prove we have the power: Passed
- The laws of the post service apply to everyone, even the society: Passed
- We discuss exhuming dead honorary members and bringing them to the Garden Party.
- If there are unicorns anywhere then they’re in Trinity wine cellar.
- The size of your bed determines how you vote in elections.
- If we encase President Mugabe in concrete we’ll have to drop him into hot lava if we want him to float.
- May week is not racist.
- The best way to Addenbrookes is to get out of your car and stand in the middle of the road.
- Neil isn’t a racist but he is a devious as Martin. (who also is not a racist)
- Martin is baking a cake in the FA cup: Passed
- Votes to censor Martin for not bringing the cake: Passed
- You cannot be random above and beyond the call of Pooh-soc: Passed
- We will reply to the Queen and ask her to rearrange the trooping of the colour. Next year we will invite them all along.
- "Yes, indeed, I am the Lady Gwenhwyfar" Neil
- We should invite Prince Charles to a meeting: Passed
- As a democratically elected President, Owen outranks the Prince of Wales: Passed
- We all agree camp X-ray is evil and will now move on: Passed
- Neil has a perfectly good body of his own.
- Pooh-Soc should go Norse and drink tea out of the skulls of our enemies: Passed
- Votes to censure the society for not having any enemies: Failed
- Votes to censure Shelia for folding and depriving us of enemies: Passed
- Rosy is a Muppet: passed
- Censure everyone interrupting the minutes: passed
- Minutes of last week meeting are read.
- Censure Rachel C for flying the minutes out of the room: Passed
- Votes to make Neil into a paper aeroplane and throw him out of the window: Failed
- Alison strokes Neil’s arm to see if he has soft calf-like skin suitable for turning into vellum.
- Votes to mandate Rosy to carry out the control experiment of dunking a biscuit into an empty mug: passed
- Tea is the binding force of the galaxy.
- Votes to commend Alison for discovering the unifying theory of tea: Passed
- "Alison alone should get the Nobel prize" Neil
- Votes to censor Neil: Passed
- Neil pokes Alison.
- We should persuade CUSU to give us all there power: passed
- Owen calls a vote on a withdrawn motion which failed anyway.
- If there was no air bumping into your head would your brain explode?
- The society owes Rachel C £9.90.
- Votes to censure Neil for trying to give Rachel C £99 of the society’s money for services rendered: Passed
- The Pilgrimage will be on Friday the 13th of June. (The under-secretary will not be attending as she’ll be listening to Christopher Robins fascinating talk entitled "I’ve been working for the last 8 months-honest"
- Owen’s going to have trouble teaching maths next year: Apathyed (or local electioned)
- Votes to censure The James for not abstaining: Passed
- As 62 and for not abstaining this time: Passed
- Jack has several invisible, intangible and inaudible pianos.
- Neil gets astride Alison.
- Reading: In which Eeyore has a birthday
- Mandate Dunstan to gargle the receptacle of water part of the society anthem at the garden party: Passed
- Dunstan didn’t know he existed.
- Roz is not the official bang.
- Piglet’s balloon bursts. Hysterics ensue.
- The biscuit Vote: Custard Creams 5, Digestives 2.
- Next weeks meeting: Room 1, 4 Selwyn Gardens. Unless someone jumps up in the next five minutes.
- We could call votes to close: Passed
- Votes to close: Passed
- Next weeks meeting: Room 1, 4 Selwyn Gardens.
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