COMFORTING THE TEACHER

 

Something upset

My English teacher

So I said to comfort her

“There, their, they’re”

I SPOTTED A CHEMISTRY STUDENT

I spotted a chemistry student

Entering the toilets, the other day

He washed his hands on the way in

Which is always a dead giveaway

DID YOU HEAR OXYGEN

 

“Did you hear oxygen

Is going out with magnesium”

The first atom asked

“OMg” said the second atom

MY TEACHER IS EXTREMELY ANCIENT

 

My teacher is extremely ancient

But I don’t want to be thought a fool  

But it is the truth as he told us

He taught Shakespeare at his old school

A MAN IN LOVE IS INCOMPLETE

 

A man in love is incomplete

Until he is married

According Zsa Zsa Gabor

And then he’s finished

THE TRAFFIC COP STOPPED A TRUCK

The traffic cop stopped a truck

And told the driver that his wife

Had fallen out of the back, and

As a result the woman lost her life

The driver though was not bereft

But relieved he hadn’t gone deaf

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (1939)

 

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a romantic drama, based on James Hilton’s book of the same name and directed by Sam Wood and Sidney Franklin.

An old classics teacher, and former headmaster of Brookfield School, “Mr Chips” (Robert Donat) looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage to Katherine (Greer Garson), who he met in the Alps while on holiday with his friend and colleague Staefel (Paul Henreid), and that meeting transformed his life, and the effect she had on him lasted throughout his life.

Robert Donat deftly handles the role of Chips through the years, from his arrival at the school as a young man in his mid-20s until he lays on his death bed in his 80s.

A wonderful film that cleverly marks the passage of time with snippets of conversation between boys or masters as they return to school in the autumn mentioning keys events, such as Queen Victoria's death, the advent of the telephone, a book by a new author, H.G. Wells, and of course the Great War.

It is a sentimental story, but it is also poignant and thought provoking and is essentially a chronicle of a common man's existence as he touches the lives of hundreds.