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


  1. Meeting opened by Rosy.

  2. Plan to "re-instate person to be eaten in case of emergency" in case we get besieged.

  3. Votes that visitors should vote: Passed

  4. John-h has a very warm bottom and a very cold head.

  5. "That’s the same number of colours if blue’s white and white’s blue" John-h.

  6. "The ultimate biscuit competition" will now be known as episode IV, so that we can have more biscuit competitions and call them prequels: Passed

  7. Votes to censure Neil and Alison for talking about non-pooh related material: Passed

  8. Votes to censure Neil for thinking about talking about Star Trek: Passed

  9. Votes to commend Martin for 3.5 years of minute taking: Passed

  10. Votes to censure the society for not taking the minutes off him sooner: Passed

  11. Votes to appoint Rosy as Captain to lead us as we embark on last weeks minutes: Passed

  12. "How are you supposed to eat this cake?" Neil

  13. Votes to mandate Rachel to read the minutes in a squeaky Roo voice: Failed (thankfully)

  14. Minutes read by Rachel, Neil, Katie and Dunstan.

  15. Jack and Neil discuss Maths debating.

  16. Votes to censure all James’everywhere, past, present and future, for not milking a can of corned beef: Passed

  17. 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

  18. Votes to censure Neil and Rosie for interrupting the minutes: Passed

  19. Votes to censure Neil: Passed

  20. Votes to censure Christopher Robin: Passed

  21. 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)

  22. 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.

  23. "No offence Martin, but I prefer Alison to you." Neil

  24. Neil is a bomb.

  25. Neil leaves destruction behind him: Passed

  26. Martin is being extremely brutal: Passed

  27. "If I were Martin’s lipstick I’d run away!" Neil

  28. Votes to censure Owen for not bringing a spice to this weeks meeting: Passed

  29. "Betrayal by toast is really quite damaging" Neil

  30. Votes to censure Owen for not being here to second motions for Martin: Passed

  31. Neil was speaking from experience in the previous minute: Passed

  32. People can’t cope with there actually being a reason to censure Neil: Passed

  33. We should "Shut up Neil" in Rachel’s Bathroom: Hung, CR for.

  34. Votes to censure Naath reading non-pooh related material: Passed

  35. Votes to censure the CTS for holding a meeting at an inconvenient time for pooh-soc and hence depriving us of Naath: Passed

  36. Votes to commend the CTS for holding a meeting at an inconvenient time for pooh-soc and hence depriving us of Naath: Passed

  37. We should set the president in jelly: Passed

  38. Votes to mandate the Secretary to write to the Home Secretary and suggest setting Mugabe in concrete: Passed

  39. Votes to censure Alison for sneaking Potter quotes into Pooh-Soc: Passed

  40. Will I be censured if I say "Potter is better than Pooh"? : Passed

  41. We’re cruel: Passed

  42. Half the society is watching Martin to see what he’s doing: Failed (it’s probably more)

  43. Katie sings "Cottleston Pie" to the tune of "twinkle, twinkle little star".

  44. Votes to commend Katie for her singing: Passed

  45. Katie pays her pooh-levy!

  46. Votes to censure Katie for being stupid enough to join: Passed

  47. Police Officers will turn up and drag us off to jail if we close a meeting while we’re not quorate: Failed

  48. Alison has put on too much weight and is trying to burn it off by vigorous wrist motion: Hung, CR for.

  49. Votes to commend the last motion for hanging Martin: Passed

  50. Alison almost being Dunstan counts as a near Dunstan experience

  51. Rosy has a hidden agenda for this meeting.

  52. Votes to mandate Rachel’s mum to analyse us all and decide whether we’re differentiable or Riemann integratable: Passed

  53. You can see the PhD thesis entitled "Pooh-soc and related disorders": Passed

  54. If a plum were flying it would be plummeting.

  55. T-shirts. 8 people here want them small:1, medium: 2, Large:3, Xlarge: 2

  56. "He came when I was online enough to poke him" Neil

  57. Remove 100’s of pounds from the account: Failed

  58. Mandate Rosy to hit John-h for suggesting the previous motion: Passed and fulfilled

  59. Alison’s cooking is always insulted: Passed

  60. Alison is legally responsible if the cake poisons anybody: Passed

  61. Let’s watch Martin exasperating on the bed: Passed

  62. The CMS is important: Passed

  63. Mandate Alison to drop heffalumps into her tank: Passed

  64. We should make pancakes into the shape of Wednesday: Failed

  65. Rachel has to do chemistry experiments on pancakes: Passed

  66. That’s the second seconding I’ve heard seconded: Passed

  67. It was a meeting in here: Withdrawn

  68. DO NOT invoke clause 55, even to remove Martin’s seconding rights for this meeting.

  69. "I could get rid of John-h" Neil

  70. Votes to invoke clause 57: Passed

  71. Votes to invoke clause 60: Passed

  72. Votes to commend Rachel on her superb aim: Passed

  73. Votes to invoke clause 63: Passed

  74. Votes to invoke clause 62: Passed

  75. Rosy worries about John-h’s parents.

  76. Votes to censure Ben 1000 times: Passed

  77. Votes to censure Sainsbury’s for running out of sponge fingers: Passed

  78. Ben has to convince us that mini jaffa cakes are sponge fingers and that there better than fruit shortcake to win: Passed

  79. Votes to commend Ben: Passed. Vetoed.

  80. Votes to censure Rosy for calling Roz a cow: Passed

  81. Votes that we don’t censure Rosy for calling Roz a cow: Failed

  82. Ben wants it hot and wet

  83. Votes to censure Earl Grey for coming into essays after he’s dead: Passed

  84. If John-h and Rachel were next to each other in parallel it would be easier: Failed

  85. 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)

  86. Rosy will bang her head on the floor for 5 minutes: Passed, Vetoed.

  87. "You can have them hard or soft" Rachel

  88. The biscuit championship: Fruit shortcakes v. Sponge fingers (which look remarkably like mini jaffa cakes)

  89. Ben demonstrates that the pen is mightier than a fruit shortcake but becomes jammed in a mini jaffa cake.

  90. John-h climbs under the table to surprise Ben, who exclaims violently.

  91. Hours: Passed

  92. Minutes of the Pooh-sticks meeting held on the 23/2/03 are read.

  93. It shall be the duty of the Home secretary to bring a copy of the society’s current constitution to each meeting: Passed

  94. Owen is the website: Passed

  95. "It’s a good thing Owen will be here next year" John-h

  96. Results: Fruit shortcake:5, Jaff- I mean sponge fingers 6.

  97. Alison and Ben apologise for next week.

  98. Votes to commend the Trumpington street gutters for taking out tourists: Passed

  99. Next meeting: V7, North court, Jesus

  100. Votes to close: Passed.


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