Minutes
of the Pembroke College Winnie the Pooh Society held on the 13th November, in
Ridley Hall. Wow, we've never been here before.
Present:
Estelle, Jack, Naath, Matthew, Rachel, Tudor, Rosy, Lukshmi, Alison
Apologies:
Katie, Owen, Rachel, Katie, Jon, James
1. Estelle:
this tea's a bit strong; I'll take it next door and doctor it.
2. Rachel:
That's Jack.
3. Tudor:
What do you do at a pooh meeting? Rachel: We eat tea and drink biscuits.
8.
Abrogating your democratic rights should be an officially possible result.
For: 0. Ag: 0. Abrogating your democratic rights: 3.
9. Tudor:
[Nice] is roughly in southern Frace. Jack: So is Italy. Passed.
10. Alison:
I'm fine on the bed.
11. M:
THAT's a laptop? E: No, not the word processor, the laptop. N: Oh, it's a word
processor. E: Yes, it doesn't have a mouse and it has a very small screen but
it has cut and paste, etc, and prints one page at a time... M: Oh, it's vi!
12. Votes
that Estelle made the cake. Passed.
13. Votes to
commend Estelle therefor. Passed.
14. J: I'm
not an Embedded C Engineer any more; ever since Alphamosaic was bought by
Broadcom and re-dubbed "Broadcom Europe" despite not being the only
division of Broadcom in Europe I've apparently been an "Engineer, Staff
Software." No, I don't have a staff any more than I used to be embedded
in sea.
15. M: I
have issues with Broadcom. They don't provide a linux driver for their modem
and I had to use the windows one. J: If it makes it work with linux in what
philosophical sense is it NOT a linux driver?
16. I
apporve of windows they let the light in. Passed.
17. Estelle:
You know, now you can be my 3rd and 4th hands
18. Estelle:
It was a brithday present from a friend. Well, she wasn't exactly a friend
before that, just after. You know how it is.
19. Rosy:
One Sarah said to the other Sarah "I went shopping yesterday and saved £200."
20. You
could make a Teddy Bear gattling fun and fire it at the mortgage company.
21. Votes to
censure Matthew for firing Teddy Bears. Failed.
22. Votes to
commend Matthew for firing Teddy Bears. Hung.
23. Matthew:
I know why I wasn't here last year. It was my birthday.
24. Minutes
are read by Matthew, Alison and Rachel/Estelle alternately.
25. Naath
goes fetchingly red. Again.
26. Matthew:
I do have some vague business.
27. Matthew
via Rosy: We should look at minutes on the website and suggest 'In which's.
28. We
should vote with our right toes. Failed.
29. Alison:
You're going to hate me. They're all in word, with equation editors.
30. Votes to
censure Jack for threatening an ex-member of the society.
31. Votes to
censure Neil. Passed.
32. Estelle:
I'm new you see, so they thought "Ah, a fresher. We'll have to soften her
up."
33. Matthew:
If you want to have subminutes like 1a... Jack: I didn't know we could do
that! Cool! M: You can't. J: THEN WHY DID YOU BRING IT UP? M: You will be able
to soon!
34. Reading:
In which Tigger comes to the Forest and has Breakfast. NOTE: Katie still
hasn't read "PLES CNOC IF AN RNSER IS REQUID", etc. from last week.
35. M: I can
pull off a suit if necessary.
36. L:
Actually, the Harry Potter society folded a week ago. A: Wow, we only declared
war on them a fortnight ago. We are good.
37. J:
Sheila has risen from the ashes! All: We should declare war on them again. J:
He said they had a non-agression foreign policy. Estelle: We've already won
then. Jack: That's what I said. In fact, we've already won twice now!
38. We
weren't quorate at the time. Or sober, or something.
39. Votes to
close. Passed.