Weekly News Round-Up #50: 02/02/2014

Hello and welcome to a brand new edition of Weekly News Round-Up!

To kick off the week, Wicks made an appeal for everyone to tape their 20p's to an envelope and send them to her, so she can pay for the Minecraft server. Naturally, this prompted a round of 'Wicks doesn't have any money!'

To illustrate how 'meh' ANT was feeling on Tuesday, she comes into school and explains that she accidentally used body wash as shampoo and her hair was feeling a little unusual.
Also, she told us about KrazyK's 'shrivelled up mess of a Geography book', which was due to a little accident with cooking ingredients. This left ANT's mother with no choice but to throw out the book, leaving the Grography teacher less than impressed.

PS was rather eventful indeed. ANT had trouble on 'Tiny Tower' trying to find where an evicted bitizen previously lived. Master attempted to conduct a search, however gave up in the end. One good thing did come out of the hour as it happened to be ANT's day when she finally passed level 181 on 'Candy Crush', a barrier that she had been stuck at previously for quite a few weeks.

At lunchtime, Alexis and The Appalling One were being more than annoying by throwing pieces of a plastic fork into Master's lunch. Along with this, there was a large portion of regurgitation jokes.

On Thursday, it came to our attention that The Appalling One often has trouble differentiating between r's and w's. He tried to emphasise the importance of reading, writing and literacy. He dubbed this trio 'The 3 R's'. Oh dear.

This week's lunchtime discussion topic was: popcorn - yay or nay?

Also, in that same lunchtime, ConscienceSarah managed to hit both her knees on the table leg. Not at the same time, of course.

Friday claimed to be a day of 'Flappy Bird'. ANT was very keen on the game, whilst Master was determined not to cave and download the game despite ANT tempting her. Meanwhile, it had a major influence on the lads at lunchtime, who were all there with their phones, competing for a higher score.

Until next week, have a good one :)

Quote Week: February - Day 7

"I'd rather be a Google Gal than a Bing Babe."
- S.A.

Story behind quote:
ConscienceSarah discusses her allegiance to certain search engines.

[Note: ConscienceSarah did not intend to offend or impose her views onto anyone. She made the statement to create comedy.]

Quote Week: February - Day 6

"It's like gingerbread men, without the men."
- S.A.

Story behind quote:
ConscienceSarah's initial reaction to gingernut biscuits.

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Quote Week: February - Day 5

"If this message gets around the whole way, ConscienceSarah will get that pastie out from the bin and eat it."
- M.B.

Story behind quote:
One Friday lunchtime, we decided to have a game of Chinese Whispers. ConscienceSarah started us off, however DisneyLoverMolly decided that she'd change it up a little bit...

[Event originally featured in WNR #47: 12/01/2014.]

Quote Week: February - Day 4

"First one to break the opponent's arm wins."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
ArwaChihuahua and Wicks were having a double arm wrestle...does anyone ever win?

Quote Week: February - Day 3

"It's such a roller coaster ride, this game."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
After a relatively long hiatus, ANT returned to Candy Crush and finally complete level 181 on Tuesday 28th January 2014. She had been stuggling with the level for quite a few weeks. Here's her reaction after the victory.

Quote Week: February - Day 2

"I need to install something that electrocutes whoever sits on it."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
It often gets quite crowded at the lunch table, with seats being taken at a 'ya snooze ya lose' basis. Here, ANT humours herself with an idea to maintain a seat...

[Note: ANT does not intend to carry out any operations of the sort previously stated. She expressed her views with the intention of comedy. Please do not take her quote to be a serious suggestion.]

Quote Week: February - Day 1

ANT: "It gets a bit annoying sometimes, y'know that 'ding' sound..."
Master: "What, the sound of profit?"
- A.T. J.C.

Story behind quote:
ANT's #TinyTower issues...

Weekly News Round-Up #49: 26/01/2014

Welcome to a slightly late edition of Weekly News Round-Up! It appears that some readers *cough The Appalling One cough* have been rather annoyed by this, but we’re working on it. Anyways, here’s what happened during the week…

On Monday, we were once again reminded of the time that The Appalling One decided to abbreviate Creative Writing Club as ‘CRC’. And yes, he supposedly studies literature.

During that same lunchtime, Alexis showed a serious case of memory loss. At one point, he turned to Master and said, “Y’know what happened yesterday-“ and at that point The Appalling One distracted him by pulling on the drawstring of his hood. Afterwards, Alexis claimed that he never said such a thing and he couldn’t think of anything that had happened the previous day that was worth sharing with the rest of the group. A strange case indeed.

On other psychological matters, ConscienceSarah had a remarkable dream, which featured Wicks as a ghost princess, who was trapped in a tower, along with a stick monster that would weave her dress. I’m not completely sure what we can infer about ConscienceSarah’s mentality from this.

In the middle of the week, we had an important assembly, where we were shown a video. The only disappointing aspect of the video was that it was painfully clear that the presenter was reading straight from a teleprompter.

After the assembly, ANT declared that she needed to go home to ‘walk her cat’. Naturally, this lead to a discussion about whether or not it is possible to walk a cat. ANT believed that a lead would surely damage a cat’s neck, however Master suggested the sort of cross-body lead.

On a side note, it was fitting that the girl walking in front of us had something that looked like the tail of a cat hanging out of the bag…

As always, Friday lunchtime was an eventful one.

ConscienceSarah opted for a pasta rather than fish and chips, which seemed to upset The Appalling One. After she had finished with her pasta, DisneyLoverMolly and Master thought that they’d try their hands at divination, even though George was slightly skeptical of their psychic abilities. The Divination Duo ended up reading the fortunes of ArwaChihuahua, ANT and Cap. The results varied greatly, however the percentage of truth remained at a constant: 0%. Along the way, the pasta pot acquired a large piece of tissue which, when mixed around, ended up looking uncannily like lasagne.

Other lunchtime activities included shouting out words in a ‘Bogies’-style game (For those who don’t know what Bogies is, it’s a competitive game where contestants try to shout the word ‘bogies’ louder than other competitors). At one point, DisneyLoverMolly shouted out ‘deviation’, to which the whole room reacted by going silent for a brief second. This continued until ConscienceSarah decided that the game was unsuitable for such an environment. Of course, this prompted a game of ‘Chinese Whispers’, which didn’t end particularly successfully, as always.

Until next week, have a good one ;)