Morning All- From Bemused Of Lancs.

[DJHawkes]

I did a talk the other day to a class of Y5 pupils on our local Tudor history. I had set a Quizz prior to the day and on the day I picked a winner and the prize was the Roald Dahl Whopping Joke Book. The excited winner shot off at playtime with the book but came back in within minutes to her teacher and myself. The girl announced that she had found a ‘threat’ in one of the jokes, she commenced to read the joke, something about pushing a custard pie in the face I think, I had switched off. The teacher did not respond in any way, just kind of winced. I’m too old for this stuff. What did I miss? Let’s Go Brandon

[dannyk13]

//Without some humour in life it would be a dull place.//
Just as the PC brigade would want it.

[Gromit]

The threat is there and real…

// Custard Pie Face
This is a great game, the more people the better. You get a paper plate and some cheap shaving cream, in the squirty cans. Squirt a bit of sharing foam on the paper plate and everyone stands in a circle facing each other. Play some music (ideally some from the Willy Wonka films) maybe this song would work? when the music stops the person holding the plate can sit down. Also every time the music stops you add a fresh squirt of shaving foam to build up the custard pie. This continues until you're left with two people and a massive custard pie. This time when the music stops the person holding the custard pie gets to put the pie in the face of the other person. This game builds up the mayhem and excitement until the very end. Just have a towel on hand to help clean up. //

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sure any one of us could explain to a 9/10 year old why there is no threat in that game.

[vulcan42]

Oh dear, very soon '1984' will have to be moved to the non fiction shelf.

[douglas9401]

Maybe the wee soul was familiar with our own thrower of custard pies and felt queasy at the thought of an encounter with the estimable naomi24. :-)