A W Howarth

• "It has been brought to my attention (and I have noticed it too) ... "

• "A small minority of boys (and a school is judged not by its good majority but by its bad minority) ... "

 

Mandy Tunica

• "Don't worry boys, I've seen bigger and better."* (in the PE change room - Glen L)

• "... and end up totally biased"

• "... and I know you third-formers will all snigger when I say 'social intercourse' "

 

Lancelot ("Jock") Priestly

• "If it's war you want, it's war you'll get. But first let me give you a word of warning: I've never lost yet."

• "Yammering away like a washerwoman"

• "I'm the judge and I'm the jury."

• "Don't snap your fingers at me. I'm not your pet dog."

   

Peter Crittle

• "I'll tear your arm off Son."

 

Dr Jaroslav Novak

• "Gehen sie an die Wand!" (Go stand by the wall.)

 

Alf Colvin

• "Hobos ... poofters ... sissies ... queens ..." etc.

 

Ernie Tucker

• "You are playing a ludicrous facsimile of soccer!" (to the Rugby team)

   

Olga Dan (Walker)

• "Take a hundred lines. No, make it a thousand."

 

Gordon Hill

• "The class shall take one hundred lines: 'I must not sound or act like an animal as I leave the classroom.' All lines to be written in ink. A separate line to be taken for each line. Commence immediately."

• JL: "Sir, would you be slighted if I asked to be moved to another class?" GH: "Slighted? Why no, Lenn. In fact I should be delighted."

 

Mr O'Gorman

• "What I know about (anything he knew little about) I could write on the head of a pin with a sledgehammer"

• "Why do you keep asking me at the end of every lesson what is the Cosine of 349? Just look it up in the tables" (Months later he realised as he approached his parked two-tone pink and purple Holden sedan that the number plate was COS 349)

• "I've been shot at before. It's one of the worst experiences you can have" (immediate post-incident class counselling after viewing the Bank of NSW teller firing a pistol down Laguna Street at the mentally-disturbed young bank robber running away with the bag of cash. A deviation of just three degrees to the left in the teller's aim would have put a bullet into our classroom, I think Room 23)

 

Arthur Cook

• "The car stopped with a jerk. The jerk got out"

• "The conductor shouted 'Move farther down the back of the bus, please'. I said 'He's not my father, he's my uncle'"

 

Barry Arnold

• "It's up to you. You have an exam coming up and whether you pass or fail is up to you, Mr (insert student name)"

 

H-h-h K Harris

• "Attention all classes"

• "long haired louts"

• "one iota"

 

Miss Bates

• "Boys! Boys! Boys!"

 

Ted Gill

• "Ahhhhhh!" (sound of refreshment after drinking in front of the class a cold bottle of Coke he had sent Charlie Powell to get on a hot afternoon in a first form maths class)