Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society, held on the 6th December 2003 in Room 15, 4a Bridge Street Cambridge
Present: Jack, Katie, Rachel H, Naath, Owen, Matthew, Alison, Tom, Edith, Neil
Apologies: Dunstan, Rosy, Roz, Brussels Sprouts, Martin, Edith
- Meeting Opened
- The sprouts are too busy on the market to come, but they have apologised. Instead we have Christmas cake!
- Votes to commend Owen for his Christmas Cake: Passed
- Jack's heroic effort to abstain is unfortunately futile, as no motion has been passed.
- Jack has a silly-sized room.
- It works when it works.
- He did use a double negative: Passed.
- Voted to censure Neil for not apologising: Passed
- Tom got in... through the door.
- It's rather unfair of Rachel to be eating John-h: Passed
- If we eat Alison's Turkish Delight, we'll have to go with our siblings to her house: Passed.
- There's only just one bad Tom: Hung.
- The problems with trains are discussed.
- Christmas Cake is consumed. And enjoyed.
- It's exactly the right type of icing: Passed
- Votes to commend [not council] Owen for the deliciousness of the cake.
- Matthew has the amazing unhuggable power.
- Katie husts for Clementines.
- Neil talks about munchkin slash.
- Votes to censure anyone talking about non-Pooh related [well, it looks like "rats" but I don't remember anyone mentioning rats. So it probably says "stuff" or "things" or something]: Passed
- You need to get our more: Passed
- We should make up the minutes of last week: Failed
- Minutes rescued from Neil just in the nick of time.
- Mass exodus of women into Jack's shower.
- [Not a clue. Possibly, " 'I could get/let/tell it with my bare hands if/is necessary/needed' - Jack"]
- We should have a full-sized cardboard cut-out of the Queen: Failed
- "Mmm mm mm mmm mmmmmmmm!": Passed
- Votes to censure them for non-Poohsoc material: Passed
- We propose we should have a vote to decide whether we '
- The minuter's brain explodes. Quietly.
- Neil takes over the minutes to create more confusion sort out the confusion.
- Votes to have a vote on whether to have a vote on whether it's the 2nth (where n belongs to the natural numbers) words of Harry Potter or the (2n-1)th which are by A. A. Milne: Passed
- A spurious motion: Abstained
- Votes to vote on whether it's the 2nth (where n belongs to the natural numbers) words of Harry Potter or the (2n-1)th which are by A. A. Milne: Abstained.
- Abstained: Failed
- If we only seconded sensible motions, where would we be?: Abstained
- It's Harry: Passed
- Votes to censure Alison for everything: Passed
- You could make an argument that A. A. Milne/J. K. Rowling are at fault: Hung
- Votes to censure Jack for casting aspersions or dispersions on A. A. Milne: Passed
- Votes to censure Jack for not abstaining: Passed
- Votes to disperse over J. K. Rowling: Passed
- "Harry" is read by Neil.
- Rachel is something [It was actually "Rachel offered me her floor to sleep on if college chucked me out of my room," Ed.].
- We read "In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore."
- Rachel C and Alison and Rachel H leave.
- Edith's leg has died.
- He could call it a report but that implies he did something.
- Mathmo essays.
- The importance (or otherwise) of maths in the National Curriculum.
- "The error is greater than the answer" is the mathmo's way of saying "I don't know."
- Nomic society constitution and possibilities thereof.
- Votes to take vanilla nomic and give it strawberry flavouring: Passed.
- Votes to censure them for non-society related material and then trying to crawl out of it: Passed
- Shut up: Passed
- Votes to censure them for not shutting up: Passed
- Votes to censure us for not shutting up: Passed
- Votes to mandate Owen to call votes out loud from now on: Passed
- It would be fun to make Owen mime everything from here-on-in: Passed
- Forget the coffee 'cos it's heretical.
- "You look at Tom for a while and then he giggles and tells you what he really wants."
- Neil is now the master of time: Failed
- Neil leaves.
- We could censure Neil again just to be sure: Passed
- Votes to censure Neil: passed
- "People always think I'm nice and I'm not" - Katie: Passed
- Votes to close: Passed
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