Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2008 of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society
In which many of the society are elected to posts they already hold.
Held on Saturday 23rd February 2008 in Sidgwick Hall, Newnham.
Present: CGM, Jack, Carol, Becky, Lisa & Owen, James, Beetle,
Ed, Ben Parker. [Ten people IS at least 33% of the paying members, so
our AGM can run. Ed.]
- Lisa: "Owen, stop it!"
- James resigns as the James.
- The nearest court of this college found to be metric is a court of Pembroke. Carried.
- AA: "There is a magic thingy under the tablecloth that stops it killing the table". Carried.
- Carol no longer owes the Society £4; Bag no longer owes £2.
- AA proposes himself Acting-Tea-Monkey-[Illegible] for the course of this meeting.
- Elect all those elected at the EGM and those whose posts are not contested. Carried.
- Alex may define himself how he likes. Failed.
- James is minuting.
- They are elected. Carried.
- Martin was seen this morning.
- "That" is what she said.
- Ben should skip for Keeper of the Society's Baboons. Carried.
- Ben: "I could get arrested." Carried.
- Dave Henderson is mentioned.
- "Hello guy writing a PhD on us in many years' time."
- <Minutes> of 16/2/08.
- Dealing with Archives. Pem? UL? Do we retain possession of the documents?
- Commend ourselves on reaching 15. Carried unanimously.
- Having a 15½th anniversary dinner. In Pem? Email the Alumni list. To be held when Pem are available. Talk to James Lloyd.
- Owen says he is technically not here anymore.
- President: CGM: 1st TESSA: 2nd [Isn't Tessa more extreme than Ron? Ed.]
- CR: Alexander Atkins: 1st RON: 2nd
- Ben: "Let's all take our clothes off and paint each other." Failed 1-8-1. [CGM mentioned renaissance in her husting speech. Ed.]
- Committee to veto that. Carried.
- THIS IS THE MEETING IN WHICH WE DECIDE TO MAKE NATWEST OUR BANKERS.
- Home Secretary: Lisa: 1st James & Jack: joint 2nd
- Foreign Secretary: James: 1st Jack: 2nd [After much electoral collusion. Ed.]
- James is Roo.
- The Loyal Toast is given.
- We will open the battenburg. Failed. AA does regardless.
- [AA:
lamb massala, boiled rice. Ed: pepper chicken, lemon rice. Becky:
pepper chicken. They're on the same piece of paper as the minutes, so
in they go. Ed.]
- Jack reads Journey's End.
- Meeting paused whilst we adjourn to the Rice Boat.
- Every cloak has a silver lining. No it doesn't. Well, Jack's does.
- Jack orders the platter that sounds like a Sith Lord. [Vada Platter.]
- Secretary leads an Expotition to the Cash Machine.
- Due to automatic 50p price reduction, Budgens once sold Beetle muffins for -10p.
- Ed necessarily pauses the minuting.
- Highlights of the interminutiae:
- -"Simeon
Bird once metamorphosed into a wine glass that could not metamorphose
into God." [The were bit in werewolf apparently means man not
shapeshifter. Ed]
- -Orthogonal vs. perpendicular [The latter is a special case and is more physical.]
- -Ed reads Us Two. It must be good: it has dragons in it.
- -Days of more than 24 hours.
- (Dave Henderson likes) mustard.
- Review
of old minutes. [It turns out that these minutes contain a spoiler as
Ed's writing is sometimes insufficiently illegible.]
- Cascading shoulder leaning <photo>.
- <Committee photo>.
- The photos will make their way off Lisa's camera tomorrow. Carried.
- James: "Er-h'r'm" Carried.
- Lisa's footnote is E#.
- Alex can't take Lisa's foot off her. Carried.
- There should only be pedantry when it's funny. Failed.
- Ed: "Good grief, what is it now?" Passed.
- Lisa's fiddling looks like half a vote.
- Ed: "You could buy something else that you want and ask for the hot water free." Carried.
- Ed: "Pounding could be a more extreme form of pennying."
- CGM doesn't like people putting dirty bits of metal in people's drinks.
- Alex reads from NT4 - Tiggers don't climb trees - as he didn't get to do Roo enough.
- Reading: NT 2 - Tigger has breakfast.
- RSVP seems to have come to mean 'reply if you are coming' rather than 'reply stating if you are coming'. This is a Bad Thing.
- Thus CGM cooked for a party to which nobody turned up, believing that some people might.
- Time travel fancy dress.
- Closed 5-0-2.
Next week’s meeting is the TBC.
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