Chris Snuggs: BRILLIANT! The only extant example of lines, which played a huge role in WHS discipline!! I wonder what the record number of lines was? 10,000? All we need now is that video of you being given "six of the best"!!

Harvey Angel: I remember being told to write an essay which was something like "Life from the inside of a table tennis ball". Much more interesting than doing lines - I got plenty of those, of course. Bogey Ben Turner's favourite for me was "I must not drive sir up the wall." I got those so regularly that I actually sometimes prepared them in advance (or retrieved them from the bin if he didn't rip them up)!

Chris Snuggs: OMG! Do still have your essay about the table-tennis ball? That subject has always fascinated me!!

Harvey Angel: Like most punishment lines or whatever, they normally end up in the bin, and I certainly wasn't going to do it twice so that I'd have a copy. Only Mr O'Leary keeps his lines for 60+ years!!

Michael John O'Leary: I never throw anything away and I'm getting worse as I get older!??

Harvey Angel: You were fairly young when you decided to save those lines. If you've got worse as you've got older, what the hell are you saving nowadays?

Michael John O'Leary: No, my mother kept them and when she died I brought a lot of stuff to my house which I never looked at for nearly 20 years. I'm only now getting round to it!

Michael John O'Leary: I use MS Outlook as an email client and the data file is 1.7GB! I've got emails that go back over 20 years. I was telling Chris recently I've got a folder with his name on it that contains nearly 400 messages between us! That is sad!??????

Harvey Angel: MS Outlook was only released to the public in late 1997, so you must have had a very early copy and kept your earliest emails. I sent my first emails around 1982. They were called "mailboxes" in those days and you had to use a dial in modem to get online (pre internet).

Chris Snuggs: Your emails might be valuable one day, like van Gogh's paintings. We are what the past made us. Everything is connected. Life is a succession of dreams; we are in the same moment of the same dream. (just been watching "Life" with Damian Lewis AGAIN - very zen.....)

Chris Snuggs: You could have got double the lines by telling the giver that you would be glad to do the lines if you only had time ....... or if he had a sense of humour he might have let you off.

John Tuddenham: Remember. Shakeshaft always gave the same lines .... and plenty of them...and after receiving them, dumped them in his waste bin ... so after every lesson, there was a huge scramble, after he had left the room, for the bin ..... they made good currency!!!!!

John Coles: Anybody get the dreaded 'ink and pencil' lines from Fred Mudd?

John Tuddenham: He used to insist (in our day...52-57) of every alternate letter being a different colour, blue, red or green, red....bloody nuisance....

Omar James-johnson: We learnt to hold 3 pens or pencils to write our lines looks like you may have used the same method

John Tuddenham: Yes...we taped/tied pens together as well....ha...