Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh meeting on the 7th of November in F5. In which there are lots of minutes taken.

Present : Jenny, Rob, Kadia, Anthony, Yasmin, Gabriel, Jeremy, Ben, James, Tom, Jon, Kirsten, Richard, Neil, Chris, Claire, Martin, Belinda, Jonathan.

Apologies : Andrew, Tony, ?


  1. Ben opens the meeting at 16.08 and then leaves.

  2. The Foreign secretary is taking minutes as both the secretary and under secretary are away.

  3. Rob pays his Pooh levy.

  4. Rumours are started about where Andrew is. Most of them involve Becky until we discover she's away.

  5. Ben Returns.

  6. Kadia starts reading the minutes at 16.15.

  7. The notes are looking confused.

  8. Kirsten gives Michael weird blood flow by sitting on him.

  9. As Ben had to write the minutes from Andrews hand written notes there are various problems while we all try to decipher what was actually written.

  10. Circles are more attractive than squares.

  11. The minutes have been read in 10 minutes.

  12. Vote to let visitors vote : Passed.

  13. Minutes from the emergency meeting held when a parcel arrived are read.

  14. The parcel is opened again for the people who weren't at the emergency meeting.
    It contains : A packet of tea
                      A large pencil
                      A folder containing some letters.

  15. The letters are read.

  16. Ben starts demanding tea and is offered some used tea bags.

  17. Vote to censure Andrew for leaving Ben the minutes to type up : F:lots Ag:5 Ab:3. Passed.

  18. Vote to let Anthony and Kadia be an embassy (or Benson and Hedges) to Mrs Barbour : Passed.

  19. It is decided to hold an election for the post of coast guard.

  20. Kirsten and Michael stand together for joint coast guard.

  21. They stand on a single ticket to hust promising to bring more cake if they get the post.

  22. There is a panic as we check whether the ticket is actually a single or a return but thankfully its a single.

  23. Andrew returns but fails to start taking minutes.

  24. Kirsten and Michael get the post. Therefore they should now bring more cake as promised.

  25. Belinda gives her report on the Overland Pooh sticks tournament.

  26. The results are: 3rd - Jeremy
                           2nd - Jenny the treasurer.
                           1st - Ben, Anthony and Andrew.

  27. The Pooh stick used by the winners was a champagne bottle with a twig on it and a song which they then sang.

  28. They are forced to sing the song again.

  29. It appears that they actually cheated and sent their Pooh stick before the official starting time but we let them get away with it.

  30. The winners are presented with certificates.

  31. Vote for something or other to do with Andrew, Ben and Anthony: Passed.

  32. Vote to congratulate Belinda : Passed.

  33. Vote to promote Belinda to joint Captain of Pooh sticks : Passed.

  34. Vote to thank Jessica for being the recipient of the Pooh sticks : Passed.

  35. Vote to censure Ben : Failed.

  36. Dave Henderson is mentioned repeatedly.

  37. The reading is "In which Eeyore looses a tail and Pooh finds one."

  38. Gabriel has magic windows.

  39. Ben mentions quantum tails.

  40. Ben then mentions Schrödinger's tails.

  41. Ben then insults art students by pointing out that they wouldn't know what he is on about.

  42. Yasmin throws a book at Ben but misses and hits Kirsten.

  43. More disruptions to the reading with Kirsten groping Ben.

  44. The reading finishes after many disruptions.

  45. Strange discussions occur due to similar sounding words.

  46. Vote to create the post of "Something similar to the society" : failed.

  47. Vote that Gabriel would hold the post if the post existed : Passed.

  48. Ben screams due to being poked by Michael.

  49. Vote to censure Ben for listening to Q103 : Passed.

  50. Where's Alison?

  51. Kirsten's a fish.

  52. Vote to censure Ben for suggesting we stop censuring people : failed.

  53. Discussions are held as to whether society posts should be elected twice a year instead of once.

  54. Yasmin and Claire start giggling.

  55. We discover it is because Yasmin wants a Chapel going cushion.

  56. Vote to censure Ben: Passed.

  57. Vote to prove Ben wrong for claiming he had a bigger bottom than Yasmin: passed after getting a visitor to decide.

  58. Ben has got a larger bottom than Yasmin.

  59. Meeting next week to be held in CC32.

  60. Vote to close : Passed.


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