I'm a Bristolian, and the guy who wrote Krek Waiters Peak Bristle came to talk at our school once, on some sort of 'rules for living'. One was that everyone should get fired once, to find out how far you could push things. In the after-talk question session, I asked if that applied equally to getting expelled from school, and the headmaster decided that that was the moment we had run out of time. (I did not get expelled, no. My ex-wife was expelled from her school, for throwing the deputy head down the stairs: a very different approach from mine...)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)