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

held in N1a, Saturday 7th March 1998

Present: Andrew, Michael, Stephen, Yasmin, Oliver, Alison, Ben, Jenny, Anthony, James, Heathcliff.

Apologies: Rob (conducting an orchastra), Sibylle (being Bavarian)

1. The meeting is opened.
   


2. Major crisis!! We don’t have a suitable kettle.
   


3. Where are Jon’s minutes from last week?
   


4. Ben returns, having left to find a kettle. Vote of thanks to Gillian Temple for lending us a kettle. F7 A1 Ab0.
   


5. Ben didn’t bring a mug.
   


6. Oliver is feeling twitchy.
   


7. Ben has minutes from last week. (Time travel??)
   


8. Yasmin reads the PBAM Poohsticks minutes.
   


9. Michael reads Jon’s minutes from last week.
   


10. We have some heretical, Disney, Nestle biscuits. Strangely, Jenny doesn’t want one.
    


11. Oliver goes in search of the kitchen, to fill the kettle.
    


12. Vote to censure Jon for being political. Passed.
    


13. (Vote to censure Andrew)^2
    
(Passed)^2


14. Oliver is proposed for membership by Ben,
    F6 A2 Ab0
    He pays £1 to join.
    


15. Ben takes over reading the minutes
    


16. James arrives.
    


17. Alison goes red. It’s that tea. What does it taste of, Alison?
    


18. Anthony accuses the secretary of lying when I claim not to be suffering a post-NatSci dinner hangover.
    


19. A very complicated vote to censure Ben for trying to stop Anthony accusing Ben of accusing Anthony of lying.
    F4 A3 Ab3
    


20. An even more complex vote, but at the end of the day it’s a vote to censure Ben.
    


21. Over 1250 people have visited our website, from the government and millitary of some jumped-up ex-colony to Scandinavian spods.
    


22. Ben has forgotten to print out some T-shirt designs.
    


23. Vote to censure Nestle.
    F2 A3 Ab5. I bet they were worried there.
    


24. Vote to censure Heathcliff for being too quiet.
    F5 A4 Ab1
    It is only fair to note that Heathcliff is in fact a pot plant, though.
    


25. Vote to censure Ben for saying we should stop the sillyness.
    F5 A1 Ab4
    
Stopping the sillyness? That would be the end of the Society!


26. Anthony makes sheep noises. Maybe he is Welsh...
    


27. Alison wants a big knife.
    


28. She cuts the cake in a sacrificial manner.
    


29. She denies being dangerous.
    


30. Next week’s meeting will be beyond the furthest reaches of civilisation, in Rm7, 2 Selwyn Gardens, as there will be few of us, so we might fit in. We will go punting first. As president, will that make Ben captain of our punt...?
    


31. Vicky Specterman arrives. Her blanket has an essay crisis.
    


32. Anthony says Stephen is soft to sit on. Scandal on the bottom floor of 2SG?
    


33. A complicated and possibly unconstitutionally-resolved vote, the result of which is that Vicky will bring her blanket to a meeting next term.
    


34. Alison’s mum likes Dave Henderson. A genuine random mention of Dave.
    


35. Censure Ben for swearing.
    F6 A3 Ab1
    


36. “In which it is shown that Tiggers don’t climb trees”
    


37. Anthony left his coat outside on his bike all last night.
    


38. Vote to censure Ben for being warped.
    F8 A1 Ab1
    


39. Michael asks Ben to “put it away”.
    


40. Albino cockroaches are discussed (!). A check of the internet suggests that these are just moulting ones (?) without their new covering.
    


41. Vote to censure Michael for swearing.
    F3 A6 Ab1
    


42. Anthony says “phfphrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpe”. With an “e”
    


43. Vote to close
    F2 A3 Ab5 everyone else. Meeting stays open.
    


44. Ben plays with Yasmin’s buttonholes.
    


45. At 5.36pm, Oliver finally sits down.
    


46. Vote to close
    F5 A3 Ab2
    

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