Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society Elevenses Meeting, held on the 1/3/2003 in 1I Library Court, Jesus.
Present: Rosy, Rachel, Jonathon, Dunstan, Jack, Martin, Alison, John-h, Neil, Ben
Apologies: Jenny, Rosie, Rachel C, Naath, Adam, Ecstatic, Roz, Mair, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, 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Visitors: Katie, Rachel’s Mum (Jennifer), Cath
- Meeting opened by Rosy.
- Plan to "re-instate person to be eaten in case of emergency" in case we get besieged.
- Votes that visitors should vote: Passed
- John-h has a very warm bottom and a very cold head.
- "That’s the same number of colours if blue’s white and white’s blue" John-h.
- "The ultimate biscuit competition" will now be known as episode IV, so that we can have more biscuit competitions and call them prequels: Passed
- Votes to censure Neil and Alison for talking about non-pooh related material: Passed
- Votes to censure Neil for thinking about talking about Star Trek: Passed
- Votes to commend Martin for 3.5 years of minute taking: Passed
- Votes to censure the society for not taking the minutes off him sooner: Passed
- Votes to appoint Rosy as Captain to lead us as we embark on last weeks minutes: Passed
- "How are you supposed to eat this cake?" Neil
- Votes to mandate Rachel to read the minutes in a squeaky Roo voice: Failed (thankfully)
- Minutes read by Rachel, Neil, Katie and Dunstan.
- Jack and Neil discuss Maths debating.
- Votes to censure all James’everywhere, past, present and future, for not milking a can of corned beef: Passed
- Neil has been doing Maths too long and someone should take him away, sit him down in a quiet corner and say "there, there": Passed
- Votes to censure Neil and Rosie for interrupting the minutes: Passed
- Votes to censure Neil: Passed
- Votes to censure Christopher Robin: Passed
- The secretary delegates her duty of suffering unrequited love for the treasurer to the under-secretary (damn it). Neil insists this is recorded in the minutes. (now I’m worried)
- In light of the previous minute, The Martin and Alison thing which was turned into The Neil and Martin thing will now be superseded by an Alison and Neil thing: Hung, CR for, Veto failed.
- "No offence Martin, but I prefer Alison to you." Neil
- Neil is a bomb.
- Neil leaves destruction behind him: Passed
- Martin is being extremely brutal: Passed
- "If I were Martin’s lipstick I’d run away!" Neil
- Votes to censure Owen for not bringing a spice to this weeks meeting: Passed
- "Betrayal by toast is really quite damaging" Neil
- Votes to censure Owen for not being here to second motions for Martin: Passed
- Neil was speaking from experience in the previous minute: Passed
- People can’t cope with there actually being a reason to censure Neil: Passed
- We should "Shut up Neil" in Rachel’s Bathroom: Hung, CR for.
- Votes to censure Naath reading non-pooh related material: Passed
- Votes to censure the CTS for holding a meeting at an inconvenient time for pooh-soc and hence depriving us of Naath: Passed
- Votes to commend the CTS for holding a meeting at an inconvenient time for pooh-soc and hence depriving us of Naath: Passed
- We should set the president in jelly: Passed
- Votes to mandate the Secretary to write to the Home Secretary and suggest setting Mugabe in concrete: Passed
- Votes to censure Alison for sneaking Potter quotes into Pooh-Soc: Passed
- Will I be censured if I say "Potter is better than Pooh"? : Passed
- We’re cruel: Passed
- Half the society is watching Martin to see what he’s doing: Failed (it’s probably more)
- Katie sings "Cottleston Pie" to the tune of "twinkle, twinkle little star".
- Votes to commend Katie for her singing: Passed
- Katie pays her pooh-levy!
- Votes to censure Katie for being stupid enough to join: Passed
- Police Officers will turn up and drag us off to jail if we close a meeting while we’re not quorate: Failed
- Alison has put on too much weight and is trying to burn it off by vigorous wrist motion: Hung, CR for.
- Votes to commend the last motion for hanging Martin: Passed
- Alison almost being Dunstan counts as a near Dunstan experience
- Rosy has a hidden agenda for this meeting.
- Votes to mandate Rachel’s mum to analyse us all and decide whether we’re differentiable or Riemann integratable: Passed
- You can see the PhD thesis entitled "Pooh-soc and related disorders": Passed
- If a plum were flying it would be plummeting.
- T-shirts. 8 people here want them small:1, medium: 2, Large:3, Xlarge: 2
- "He came when I was online enough to poke him" Neil
- Remove 100’s of pounds from the account: Failed
- Mandate Rosy to hit John-h for suggesting the previous motion: Passed and fulfilled
- Alison’s cooking is always insulted: Passed
- Alison is legally responsible if the cake poisons anybody: Passed
- Let’s watch Martin exasperating on the bed: Passed
- The CMS is important: Passed
- Mandate Alison to drop heffalumps into her tank: Passed
- We should make pancakes into the shape of Wednesday: Failed
- Rachel has to do chemistry experiments on pancakes: Passed
- That’s the second seconding I’ve heard seconded: Passed
- It was a meeting in here: Withdrawn
- DO NOT invoke clause 55, even to remove Martin’s seconding rights for this meeting.
- "I could get rid of John-h" Neil
- Votes to invoke clause 57: Passed
- Votes to invoke clause 60: Passed
- Votes to commend Rachel on her superb aim: Passed
- Votes to invoke clause 63: Passed
- Votes to invoke clause 62: Passed
- Rosy worries about John-h’s parents.
- Votes to censure Ben 1000 times: Passed
- Votes to censure Sainsbury’s for running out of sponge fingers: Passed
- Ben has to convince us that mini jaffa cakes are sponge fingers and that there better than fruit shortcake to win: Passed
- Votes to commend Ben: Passed. Vetoed.
- Votes to censure Rosy for calling Roz a cow: Passed
- Votes that we don’t censure Rosy for calling Roz a cow: Failed
- Ben wants it hot and wet
- Votes to censure Earl Grey for coming into essays after he’s dead: Passed
- If John-h and Rachel were next to each other in parallel it would be easier: Failed
- Reading: In which Kanga and Baby Roo come to the Forest, and Piglet has a Bath. (with Rachel as Roo and Rachel’s Mum as Kanga)
- Rosy will bang her head on the floor for 5 minutes: Passed, Vetoed.
- "You can have them hard or soft" Rachel
- The biscuit championship: Fruit shortcakes v. Sponge fingers (which look remarkably like mini jaffa cakes)
- Ben demonstrates that the pen is mightier than a fruit shortcake but becomes jammed in a mini jaffa cake.
- John-h climbs under the table to surprise Ben, who exclaims violently.
- Hours: Passed
- Minutes of the Pooh-sticks meeting held on the 23/2/03 are read.
- It shall be the duty of the Home secretary to bring a copy of the society’s current constitution to each meeting: Passed
- Owen is the website: Passed
- "It’s a good thing Owen will be here next year" John-h
- Results: Fruit shortcake:5, Jaff- I mean sponge fingers 6.
- Alison and Ben apologise for next week.
- Votes to commend the Trumpington street gutters for taking out tourists: Passed
- Next meeting: V7, North court, Jesus
- Votes to close: Passed.
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