Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie - the - Pooh meeting on the 16/10/99 held in AA25 in which we meet a fresher wearing a Christmas hat.
Present : Ben, Granny, Jeremy, Richard, Benedict, Martin, Jenny, Clare, Rob, Annalise, Alison, Owen, Yasmin, Michael, Jon
Apologies : Mad Jenny, Chris,
- Meeting opened by Ben.
- Kirsten and Benedict pay their pounds.
- Lots of people arrive late.
- Where are the freshers from last week?
- Jon has the minutes but he's not here.
- Treasury has 50 something pounds in it.
- Discussion of reward points from supermarkets.
- We mention Dave Henderson and is girlfriend who is working in formal hall tonight.
- Would you go out with Dave if you couldn't stand to spend all night in the pub?
- Ben's watch has just broken from over fiddling.
- Martin the stalker is in town.
- Ben is the most important person in the room.
- Where's Yasmin?
- Owen is not wearing a Christmas hat with 2 cocktail umbrellas in it (Honest).
- Mad Jenny owns her own bunny ears.
- Jeremy resigns as James.
- So elections for the following posts will be held at the EGM:
Secretary, Treasurer, James, Wol, Kanga, Eeyore.
- Can a meeting be special and general?
- People have Granny's lethal mugs.
- Becky's ill.
- Reading: Ben suggests chapter 7 of the old testament since we did chapter 1 last week.
- Yasmin arrives.
- Yasmin is allergic to Brazil nuts therefore she has a racist stomach.
- Granny makes an obscene noise with the wardrobe.
- Yasmin was painting a rainbow on her wall.
- People wonder if Yasmin's room will eventually be impossible to get in if everyone just paints over the last coat of paint.
- Ben's house has subsided.
- Ben shows us his Disney T-shirt that acknowledges A.A. Milne.
- Clare's a fairy (she has baked fairy cakes).
- What has happened to Bonnie Langford? (apparently she was singing in Cats)
- Yasmin has red paint on her face.
- Jenny wants all the biscuits.
- The biscuits are happy and smiling.
- The title is read, Alison is doing Pooh.
- Benedict plays with his Pooh rattle.
- The actual reading starts.
- Discussion about the Stokes society.
- Reading re-starts.
- More interruptions.
- Michael arrives but needs to stay near his phone.
- Reading restarts again.
- Granny's book falls apart.
- "Could we concentrate on the reading" Ben shouts thus interrupting the meeting himself.
- Jon arrives with minutes.
- Did A.A. Milne's finger get court on the shift key during this chapter someone asks.
- More interruptions.
- Ben has problems doing Piglet huskily.
- Rob always want more fairy.
- Vote to congratulate Alison on doing a good Pooh : F15, A0, Ab0 :- passed.
- Vote to let visitors vote : F12, A3, Ab0 :- passed.
- Ben introduces everyone.
- Yasmin pays her pound.
- Owen Barritt pays his pound.
- Minutes of the last meeting are read.
- Ben interrupts the minutes.
- Cheap tarts are passed around.
- Yasmin is perfect as she is.
- Yasmin offers Clare the chance to share a cheap tart but Clare doesn't like them.
- EGM 2 weeks today (i.e. 30/10/99).
- There is a spider living on Granny's wardrobe.
- Vote to censure Jeremy for being nasty : F6, A4, Ab5 :- passed.
- Next week - 7 days.
- Alison pays her pound.
- Jenny won't be here next week.
- Ben makes wol jokes, i.e. its a wolentry post.
- Its been a long week, no it hasn't it's been 7 days.
- Next weeks meeting in E2A (Owen's room).
- Give extra fliers to freshers whose names begin with an E.
- Vote to close : F10, A3, Ab2 :- passed.
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