Present: Rachel, Martin, Owen, Rachel, Rosy, Jonathan, Jack, Adam, Dunstan, John-h and Mair.
Apologies: Roz, jenny, Neil, Naath (for lateness), Alison

1. Meeting opened
   


2. Other meeting closed
   


3. Votes to censure all those not here who haven’t apologised. Passed
   


4. English heritage are a pack of cards
   


5. Votes to censure Rachel C for being late. Passed
   


6. Tea is the best crumble. Passed
   


7. Any questions regarding the chocolate Leibniz happened at 1:15 today
   


8. Owen (on the bed) is "too busy drinking"
   


9. After many dunkings it still wasn’t floppy
   


10. We should be getting worried about something. Passed
    


11. Votes to commend Owen for being such a good president and bringing us Kinder Surprises. Passed
    


12. If no one else comes then we’re all allowed more than one. Failed
    


13. Rachel wants someone to give her a surprise
    


14. A little baby in an ice cream. Passed
    


15. Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society elevenses meeting held on the 01/03/2003 are read by Owen, Rachel, Jonathan, Rosy, Dunstan and Adam.
    


16. Neil might not want to escape from Rachel’s bathroom; he might be enjoying himself.
    


17. "Owen’s a bad President". Failed
    


18. Votes to enclose Clause 57 in this weeks...
    


19. Minute the rest of the minute in a minute (which reads): "on the floor for five minutes". Passed and vetoed.
    


20. "Ha ha ha". Passed 6:1:0:1
    


21. Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society pancakes meeting held on the 05/03/2003 are read by Mair, Owen, Rachel and Jack.
    


22. "Our love was valueless". Passed
    


23. "It’s a very bad president". Passed
    


24. "Umm nyum nyum nyum!!" passed
    


25. Votes to censure the James for not abstaining on that last motion. Passed (with no abstentions)
    


26. "And that one" Passed
    


27. "And the last one" Passed
    


28. Votes to censure the James for failing to abstain the last motion and this one if she does (which she did) fail again. Passed
    


29. YeeOW! Passed
    


30. "That down."
    


31. "Clean bowled" - Adam.
    


32. "That would be the high fibre diet, oh bowled" - Dunstan. Passed.
    


33. Letter to Sainsbury’s about the "Taste the difference washing up liquid" is read by Dunstan.
    


34. "I think you should send it". 3:3:0:2 CR decides against.
    


35. Votes to censure the Foreign Secretary of the Society for having other things to be getting on with. 4:4:0:1 CR decides for.
    


36. Psychological Report on the Society by J.K. Holdforth is read by Jonathan.
    


37. "We have to do something about all these people withdrawing what they said, it is truly catastrophic." Passed.
    


38. "Gratias agibmus A.A. Milnei". Passed (unanimously)
    


39. "Unfortunately there’s no rabbit for me to shake lovingly by the paw" - Adam.
    


40. "He’s attacking my egg" Failed.
    


41. Biscuit voting. Chocolate Leibniz vs. Ginger Biscuits. CL:3 GB:3 Abs:1
    


42. We decide to vote again rather than giving CR his deciding vote straight away. CL:2 GB:2 Abs:2 Spoilt:1 That is John-h spoilt his previous vote for CL, thus allowing CR his deciding vote. CR ate one of each biscuit simultaneously but was still unsure so went on to eat a CL on its own and proceeded to the GB while fondling some Kinder Surprise toys in his hand. After some general banter and careful deliberation CR decides for GB. Ginger Biscuits therefore beat Chocolate Leibni.
    


43. The website shall have an archive section and therefore this years winners of the biscuit competition will automatically be entered into next years competition.
    


44. Votes to invoke Clause 61 on Owen. Passed (but not by a two-thirds majority)
    


45. Owen’s got a pair of nice shiny testaments and John-h strokes one of them (thus the obligatory testament joke is made)
    


46. Both Owen and Martin have 3 testaments each.
    


47. Much deliberation over which story to read.
    


48. "We could jump back and do the Heffalump" - Owen.
    


49. We decide that in the absence of the official "Bing" we will all bing together and we read "In which Piglet meets a Heffalump"
    


50. Narration will go clockwise missing every other person out. (NB: we only had three narrators - work it out)
    


51. Rachel arrives and we now have 4 narrators and a complex system whereby Martin has to join the narrators is devised so that going clockwise and missing every other person does not cause exclusion and heartbreak.
    


52. Next weeks meeting to be held in Owen’s room, Room 1, 3 Selwyn gardens.
    


53. Jack’s mouth said something without him meaning it to and no sound came out.
    


54. Ooh er.
    


55. Jack is imagining Rachel jumping into a big vat of chocolate.
    


56. "I have a thing with funny eyes" - Martin.
    


57. I bet Jonathan took Queen Victoria
    


58. "Anyone else for a last minute entry?" offered Owen.
    


59. We vote on the twenty-one remaining Kinder Surprise toys that are assembled in a nice circle on the floor. Everyone has three votes. The joint winners are The Hammer, The Eggs and THE COG THING!!! We all vote again with one vote each and the results are, The Hammer: 0 The Eggs: 1 THE COG THING: 5. Hurrah!!!
    


60. "Why not put them all in the archives?" Passed
    


61. "Approximately A Wardi" 3:3:0 Owen announces the motion was carried, failed, hung. CR decides to carry and fail it, thereby spoiling the motion (possibly by giving it too many sweets when it was young)
    


62. "Votes to close" abstained 0:0:3
    


63. "Motes to close" failed 0:1:0
    


64. Rachel thinks there was something in her Physic exam last year.
    


65. Rachel is in the floor
    


66. Rachel wants to know which sort of Latex to use
    


67. The length of John-h’s pencil gets in the way as he minutes.
    


68. John-h defends himself with the minutes as Rosy hurls a Kinder Surprise (between the eyes) at him. He thwacks it away and manages to get it in the bin.
    


69. John-h is out of ammo.
    


70. Votes to censure John-h for misuse of the Society Testaments. Passed unanimously.
    


71. Martin and John-h want to do things to Rosy in the corner.
    


72. Owen has a nice collection.
    


73. More tea? Yes please.
    


74. Perhaps jack had his mischievous way with them (Rosy’s shoe laces, that is)
    


75. Turmeric
    


76. "Turmeric is a good thing to quench hunger" Quote for the motion: "to be to not to be". Quotes against the motion: "this calls for immediate discussion" Quotes abstaining the motion "Clause 63". CR quotes for.
    


77. Owen doesn’t mind being the King of France.
    


78. Owen doesn’t want the King of France’s post, he gets enough mail on his own.
    


79. "Teddy bear" is read by Rachel, Owen, John-h and Martin
    


80. "Bad Sir Brian Botany" read by Owen, John-h and all (as villagers)
    


81. "Sand between the toes" John-h
    


82. "Disobedience" is read by Rosy, John-h, Owen and Rachel
    


83. "Lines and Squares" is read by John-h, Rachel and Owen
    


84. "Happiness" is read by John-h and Owen in various
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    strange ways including alternating between different lines and different halves of the poem.
    


85. "The End" is read oddly (and evenly) by Rachel and Martin
    


86. "Now we are six" failed 0:1:0:2
    


87. "We haven’t had the engineer" - Rachel
    


88. "The engineer" - Rachel
    


89. "Does the emperor of Peru have a part" - Rachel
    


90. "The emperor’s rhyme"
    


91. "I think I am a muffin" Passed
    


92. "Busy" read by Martin
    


93. "Noise by Pooh" read by John-h with all joining on last line repeats
    


94. "If it was a hovercraft maybe she could hover on it." Hung 1:1:1:1 CR decides for.
    


95. Votes to mandate John-h and Owen to finish that poem by next week. Passed
    


96. "Poem" read by Owen
    


97. "Limerick" recited by Rachel, written by her and her Mum.
    


98. "Ooh er © Owen Barritt" 2:2:1 CR decides against
    


99. John-h recites "Jonathan Waters met a tortoise"
    


100. Rachel tries knife throwing towards Rosy.
     


101. General cacophony (although he wasn’t invited because this is not a General Meeting.
     


102. Rachel reads the Mathematical formulae front cover from the Cavendish.
     


103. Rosy reads the ingrediments
     


104. Martin reads inside the cover and dedication toNwA6
     


105. Rosy hits Martin on the head with the testaments.
     


106. Rosy hits on Martin with Owen’s testaments.
     


107. That page
     


108. Rosy says Owen has remarkable eyes.
     


109. The Society bookmark is used so we all know our place in the Society.
     


110. "I propose we close `our nose' with sand between our toes". Passed 3:0:0
     
111. "Would Rose like to pose between my toes? She’d better close her nose!" John-h
     


112. A clock isn’t a clock if it doesn’t have a battery in it.
     


113. If John-h gets this piece of paper in that mug then Rosy has Martin as a slave for the rest of the week.
     


114. John-h doesn’t get it in the mug
     


115. "Naath hang on" passed 4:0:0
     


116. "For is four" passed 3:2:0
     


117. Owen, Martin, Rosy, John-h, Rachel, Mair.
     


118. The list of people present should go in as minute 118.
     


119. "Play Pooh Sticks in the samowa" Passed 3:1:0
     


120. "10 to 9 is wrong" Passed 4:2:0
     


121. "57 is more than twice 115" Hung 2:2:1 CR decides for
     


122. "I propose that this meeting is closed" Failed 1:2:1
     


123. Martin wonders what would have happened if we had passed that previous meeting.
     


124. John-h leaves
     


125. "We should close the meeting at some point in the future." Passed
     


126. "John-h is now typing up the minutes." Passed
     


127. A duty of the Home Secretary: Send a different postcard every month to the Society c/o President/Secretary/CR
     


128. Will the president choke on a pretzel?
     


129. "John-h can’t leave a meeting" Passed 2:0:0
     


130. Owen’s eating the plate varied.
     


131. Japanese rice cakes drenched in evaporated milk.
     


132. "Any time soon" is opened
     


133. Votes to close "any time soon", Passed
     


134. "Owen likes being liked by Deans" John-h repeatedly.
     


135. We will hold a memorial service for John-h’s phone in Memorial Court, Clare.
     


136. "If John-h starts working through the ring tones on his phone then we’ll throw it (and him, if he’s holding it) into the moat." Passed
     


137. Owen: Can you assist John-h in getting it down?
     


138. "Votes to mandate Rachel to feel Martin’s thing" Failed
     


139. "Everyone wants to feel Martin’s thing." Passed
     


140. Rachel: Weezles and Sneezles
     


141. Reading: In which It Is Shown That Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees
     


142. Martin’s only got a small part.
     


143. Votes to close: Passed
     

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