A Tom Jones look -alike
In about 1969, We had a new English teacher arrive at our school. The other kids had told us that he was a dead ringer for Tom Jones. The first time we had him for a lesson we lined up outside the classroom as usual then he called us in, we stood behind our desks whispering and giggling at each other and then he just looked up and said "Yes I know, I DO look like him don't I? but funny thing is, I bloody can't stand him myself!" He did!, even down to the tight curly hair, he could have been his twin brother. I thought to myself straight away "I'm going to like you, you seem like a nice guy!" He was indeed! everybody liked him, he was lovely chap, a terrific mimic ( he could 'do' any accent he wanted , Scots, Irish Brummie Liverpool, you name it! He often told us stories about his uncle in the RAF and then he would go into a wonderful Terry-Thomas type voice which had us all in fits of laughter. )Everyone looked forward to his lessons and quite honestly we were all sad when the bell went as nobody wanted to leave his classroom. Many of the other teachers used to complain that they found my handwriting difficult to read, I remember the first time I nervously handed a piece of work him to mark he looked at me and said "Oh I have heard about you!" ( 'Oh no, here we go again' I thought , 'what is he going to say? Yikes!' ) Then he said after reading a few lines "Well I can read it, bugger what the others say and its all bloody good stuff. Anyway, when you get to uni you can use a typewriter can't you?" ( by the way This was just before computers came onto the scene ). He was always making fun of the other teachers, especially the headmaster, who was a keen sailor. I was talking to him in the school hall one day and I noticed the ventilation fans which were mounted at the top of the walls, near the roof, seemed to be going unusually fast. I pointed this fact out to him and he said bluntly "Oh don't tell the head, he will want to turn the bugger upside down and sail away in it!"
He later became deputy head then sadly he left because he was offered a headmaster's Job somewhere else. We were really broken hearted when he went.
(Mackeson_drinker, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 7:05, 3 replies)

Completely
unreadable.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 8:54, closed)

It's not unusual

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 9:25, closed)

If you squint at it hard enough you can see a ship.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 9:25, closed)

Sympathy click from...
one who had detention every week because of handwriting!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 9:10, closed)

my teacher
was an absolute dead ringer for martina navratilova, right down to the glasses.
on the first day, she said to us "there's one name i NEVER want to hear in this class."
one of the lads in stantly called out "martina!"
quick as a flash, she rounded on him and yelled "THAT'S THE ONE!"
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 18:19, closed)