b3ta.com board
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Messageboard » Message 8047978 (Thread)

# I grew up with
Old Enid and was mesmerised as a child. I went to school being able to read purely because of Blyton and possibly the Hobbit.
Wishing Chair and the faraway tree were my absolute favourites. I too have a bookcase full of hardback originals. I wish I'd kept the ones from my childhood instead of spending a fortune buying them now I understand the importance of property.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:28, archived)
# hehehe
Shock Toffee.....
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:29, archived)
# OH no!
They have gone up the tree and now the world is moving on and they may never get back down...again!
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:32, archived)
# I had nightmares about that happening to me
but I would have risked it. Oh, how much I would have risked it.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:33, archived)
# but they went to such cool places!
or so it seemed to my 7-year-old brain. those books improved my reading so much that i got detention for reading a jackie collins book when i was 8 ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:34, archived)
# I remember my second
English literature class at my new grammar school ( I was just 12 ). We were told it would be Tolkien's 'Hobbit' that year so I turned up with my own cloth-eared copy and was able to read almost verbatim without reference when called upon. Boy, I was one unpopular cunt in my first years of school.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:37, archived)
# same here
nobody likes a smart arse until it's time for exams
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:39, archived)
# It's comforting to find the small things that remain unchanged, isn't it?

*runs for it*

Edit: This is pretty fucking pointless if you don't chase me, spoilsport.
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:41, archived)
# I'll have my mate pass you the same
note that I passed to flowerpot in the playground.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:55, archived)
# Yeah, know the feeling
I learned to read before I started school and had worked my way through all but the simplest of their books. I still wasn't allowed to take my own books in though.

Twunts :(

I remember doing a school assembly where I took all my Blyton books in, and even a report when I first started high school
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:39, archived)
# we were given kevin the kitten books
i could read them in 5 minutes. there was nothing that made me laugh more than seeing a kid having to bookmark the page they were up to at the end of the day!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:43, archived)
# I remember
learning about 'odes' and composition in primary school. ( I was about 11 ) and after one night where I kind of sleepily composed a story about a boy who had his arm ripped off by a lion on a trip to the zoo I sat down and wrote it. My teachers were amazed by it ( I wish I still had that as well as my short story 'Bonzer Bill and the return of the passing yutipolker '). So much so that it was printed large and made into a framed poster that all could see in the vestibule of the school.
Oh I was an unpopular cunt in my last days of primary school.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 1:01, archived)
# my mum sent a poem i wrote in to a magazine
unfortunately, i won first prize. it was shit. i only won because everyone else who entered was about 60 and i was about 9. my headmaster read it out un assembly. the girl behind me tied my hair in knots.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 1:09, archived)
# Fuck, me too
I learned to read with those books, I read them more times than any other book I owned (or have done yet I suspect!)

I too lost them to childhood and not realising the value* of what I had

*I don't mean financial, I have no idea what they'd cost now
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:31, archived)
# god, i'd forgotten the wishing chair!
i wanted to live in the faraway tree, though
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:31, archived)
# ladybird ftw
got up to 12b!
(I helped save b3ta! gfreeman is only here for the beer, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 0:32, archived)