Minutes of the Elevenses Meeting of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society

In which communication is considered.

Held on Saturday the 28th February 2009 at Bazil's.

Present – GCM, Jack, Bazil, James.
Later present – Annie.

  1. Bazil has written a letter to Cadbury’s, concerning the welfare of the cream bird.
  2. Commend Liz on her letter. 3-0-1-0.
  3. Amnesty International have Robert Mughabe’s address.
  4. Physicists can vote. 4-0-0-0.
  5. Mr. Bazil says “hello”.
  6. Mr. Bazil fails to make a pun – the rain in Spain falls mainly on the pla(in/ne).
  7. We should get the archives archived.
  8. Burrell’s Field has a number of r’s and l’s that change every time you spell it. 4-0-0-1 (Bue’s Field).
  9. Scary hats.
  10. “I read it in a newspaper instead of actually seeing it.”
  11. “Be careful of those taps; I keep getting electric shocks from them, if I have shoes on.”
  12. Annie arrives from a quiz.
  13. There’re lots of people who don’t know anything at all. Lots-0-0-0.
  14. The room is brightened.
  15. Another, older, Poohsoc is discussed. We should try to contact them.
  16. “This water seems hotter than other boiling water” – Jack.
  17. The song- “Don’t read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.” 5-0-0-0.
  18. You have insurance, we have the NHS.
  19. Productive discussion… on the internet?
  20. Reading; Old Testament 3 – In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle.
  21. Two Corinthians went to mow, went to mow a meadow.
  22. Discussion of norro-mumps.
  23. CGM still doesn’t understand cookies.
  24. I should leave a fig roll in the air and see if it goes hard or soft.
  25. Annie volunteers to host, barring quarantine.
  26. The invisible hand of control, a.k.a. James. 5-0-0-1 (The foot of control).
  27. “Raspberry flavoured plum jam” in Jammie Dodgers.
  28. Wheat => gluten although gluten ≠> wheat.
  29. “Delicious stretchy jam” again in Jammie Dodgers.
  30. Some sort of prefixy-nouny-thing.
  31. Annie’s linguistic brain is a tenant, she calls it David.
  32. “Counting is a lot of work and I’m often bad at it.” 3-2-0-0.
  33. A knitted stegosaurus. All “awwww” – “That’s off the record.” – Jack being wrong.
  34. “Bentoblogs” – people posting pictures of their packed lunches on the internet.
  35. Annie describes an awkward situation.
  36. You’ve broken your leg, you’re probably pregnant. 1-3-0-0.
  37. Conservation of legislation.
  38. The European Union makes things more confusing.
  39. CGM is in favour of squirrel genocide.
  40. Close meeting. 5-0-0-0.

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