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Greyfriars

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Greyfriars	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Greyfriars school stories ran for thirty years in the boy's weekly paper "The Magnet" and, after that ceased publication during the war, continued as a series of novels. The stories were credited to 'Frank Richards', but were almost all the work of a single and astonishingly productive man, Charles Hamilton, who also wrote under other names for several other story papers.The stories documented the trials and tribulations of the Remove form, particularly the straight-laced, high-spirited, sporting "Famous Five" (no, not that one) of Wharton, Nugent, Huree Jamset Ram Singh, Bob Cherry and Johnny Bull. However they were rapidly eclipsed in popularity by their greedy, short-sighted, pathologically self-centred classmate, Billy Bunter, who took on the title role in the novels, and later television, stage and comic adaptations. Already rather far removed and outdated from the reality of boarding school life at their inception, the students, school, slang and storytelling remained pretty much unaltered during the 50+ years that the series ran.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Although Bunter's depiction varied wildly once other authors tried to write stories about him, the original author always allowed Bunter some saving graces to prevent him from becoming totally unlikeable. So, although Bunter was greedy and would steal food from almost anyone who he knew wouldn't report him to the police, and was a pathological liar, nevertheless he would never deliberately steal anyone's money (asking for a "loan" wasn't stealing, to Bunter's mind), and although usually depicted as a coward, Bunter did have a spot of courage which he could draw upon when the plot demanded he do so.Bunter at his most exaggerated lived on alone after Greyfriars in a comic strip in Knockout from 1939 onwards.
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Greyfriars / int_1858696	type	One-Gender School
Greyfriars / int_1858696	comment	One-Gender School: Greyfriars, as was de rigeur at the time. A nearby girls' school, Cliff House, is attended by female relatives of several characters.
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Greyfriars / int_18a84025	type	Only Six Faces
Greyfriars / int_18a84025	comment	Only Six Faces: Crowds of identical boys populate the illustrations. A few are instantly recognisable; Bunter, being spherical and wearing specs and checked trousers; Alonzo Todd with his awkward, gangling limbs, big nose and huge, innocent eyes; Fisher T. Fish with his big glasses and pinched face. Vernon-Smith can sometimes be distinguished by his (literal) low brow, firm chin, centre parting and fondness for pinstriped trousers. Singh sports a healthy crop of cross-hatch shading to indicate his skintone. Everyone else could be...well, anyone else.
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Greyfriars / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Greyfriars / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Loder is a cruel prefect held in poor regard by most of the school. Bolsover major plays this role within the Remove itself.
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Greyfriars / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Greyfriars / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: A common recurring plot. Many mountains are made out of molehills when characters become too overcome with pride or pique to talk things through.
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Greyfriars / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Greyfriars / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Many, many quarrels, misunderstandings and feuds are resolved by one character saving another - usually from drowning.
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Greyfriars / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
Greyfriars / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off: The Headmaster, Form Masters and all prefects are able to dispense corporal punishment, and do so with great frequency.
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Greyfriars / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
Greyfriars / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: Vernon-Smith's out-spoken, purse-proud father.
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Greyfriars / int_278e545e	type	Scholarship Student
Greyfriars / int_278e545e	comment	Scholarship Student: Mark Linley, a Lancashire lad who worked in a factory, and Tom Redwing, a (temporarily) orphaned fisherman's boy.
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Greyfriars / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Greyfriars / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Many of the characters are too good for their own good. Redwing is a particularly shining example - lying, cheating, sponging, cruelty, pettiness and the like are utterly alien to him and his poor-but-honest upbringing.
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Greyfriars / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Greyfriars / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Good characters generally have the manly good looks to match (Wharton, Wingate, Nugent, Linley, Redwing, Singh, etc.) while bad characters are usually freakish (Bunter, Fisher T. Fish), dandies (Ponsonby et al.) or are just generally unattractive (Bolsover, Stott, Vernon-Smith). The one notable aversion of the the trope is Bob Cherry, who is probably the series' most thoroughly good-natured character, and yet looks "cheerful, healthy" but "not handsome".
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Greyfriars / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Greyfriars / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: The Bounder's 'phenomenal luck' in avoiding expulsion by the narrowest of narrow squeaks time, and time, and time, and time again is well known and commented on.
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Greyfriars / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Greyfriars / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Especially in the comics, where Billy is often beaten by the headmaster, even when something wasn't exactly his own fault.
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Greyfriars / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Greyfriars / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Pride comes before a fall. Wharton and Vernon-Smith never quite learn from their mistakes, however.
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Greyfriars / int_2ef89a18	type	Fat Comic Relief
Greyfriars / int_2ef89a18	comment	Fat Comic Relief: Billy Bunter himself.
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Greyfriars / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Greyfriars / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: A female version of Billy Bunter was created as a separate series: Bessie Bunter.
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Greyfriars / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Greyfriars / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: When he first joins the Remove, Vernon-Smith is a weedy Spoiled Brat with no skills in fighting nor sports, and who gets his confidence from his father's standing with Dr Locke. By the end of the series he is one of the Remove's best fighters and footballers, and utterly self confident.
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Greyfriars / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Greyfriars / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Bunter. "I say, keep that beast Coker off! I wasn't in his study when he found me there, the suspicious beast! I wasn't after his cake! There wasn't any cake, and I never touched it, and I had hardly a mouthful when the brute came in! I say, you fellows - ow! Oh crikey!"
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Greyfriars / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Greyfriars / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis/Last-Name Basis: You can often get an idea of where a character stands in the series' estimation of Black-and-White Morality by how the narration refers to them. Most characters, from thoroughly good fellows (e.g.: Harry Wharton, Tom Redwing, Mark Linley) to the flawed but essentially harmless (e.g.: Billy Bunter and Horace Coker) are regularly referred to by their full names. A very few thoroughly good fellows, such as Bob Cherry, make it to a chummy First-Name Basis. Those black sheep who have crossed the line, however, are kept at a little distance; Vernon-Smith, Skinner and Bolsover, for example, seldom have their first names mentioned at all.
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Greyfriars / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Greyfriars / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Bunter is wont to mangle any non-pedestrian word he is forced to repeat, coming out with monstrosities such as 'unparallelogramed' and 'voluntaciously'.
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Greyfriars / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Greyfriars / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: To modern eyes the portrayal of Hurree Jamset Ram Singh is pretty cringe-worthy, though at least he was always shown as a good-natured fellow, a first-rate cricketer and nobody's fool. Fisher T. Fish, the American member of the Remove, hardly showed the USA in a good light. Wun Lung and his younger brother Hop Hi were stereotypical Chinese, including (in the early days) their mode of dress, including pigtails. Wun Lung would often cook disgusting meals, which the other boys believed consisted of rats and mice.
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Greyfriars / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Greyfriars / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Wharton and Co. fall foul of this on many occasions. Oh, the trials of being a upright, English schoolboy; you've no choice but to play up, play up, and play the game. 'Sneaking' is one of the worst sins and the more honourable characters would risk a flogging or even expulsion rather than to snitch on a genuine enemy. There's also plenty of awkwardness caused by money. It's fine to accept loans, favours, offers of places to stay in the holls, etc., unless you are in real, genuine need. Then no matter how pressing, how miserable, how desperate your circumstances, or how the donor begs you to accept, it is charity, and must therefore be refused.
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Greyfriars / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Greyfriars / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Vernon-Smith. Although unscrupulous, aggressive, surly, ruthless and possessing many frowned-upon habits ranging from visiting pubs to ragging the form masters, Vernon-Smith is at heart more good than bad.
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Greyfriars / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Greyfriars / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Ponsonby has elegant looks, dresses like a dandy, speaks with a high-class drawl and can be good-humoured company when he pleases. He enjoys being a beastly cad so much, however, that he can barely bother to conceal it.
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Greyfriars / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
Greyfriars / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Bunter.
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Greyfriars / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Greyfriars / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Bunter is an archetypal fat bastard. Also, whenever he does something remotely bastard-ish, you will be reminded several times that he is fat. Of course, you're reminded that he's fat about six times a paragraph anyway.
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Greyfriars / int_59af9477	type	Delinquents
Greyfriars / int_59af9477	comment	Delinquents: Vernon-Smith well earns his nickname "The Bounder", although is ultimately redeemable. Skinner, who has all of Vernon-Smith's bad qualities but none of his good, and his two lackeys, Snoop and Stott, are the true outcasts of the form.
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Greyfriars / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Greyfriars / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Look, just don't gamble, drink, smoke, lie, cheat, sneak, steal, go out of bounds, consort with ruffians, refuse to do your lines, mercilessly provoke the mentally feeble, gang up on people in fights or steal other people's cakes. It's not worth it. Go outside and play cricket instead.
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Greyfriars / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Greyfriars / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Bunter's insatiable appetite is the cause of much of his misfortune, to the point that his name was still used as a real-life insult long after the popularity of the character had waned.
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Greyfriars / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Greyfriars / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Even after Wharton learns to control it early in the series, it still bubbles up from time to time.
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Greyfriars / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Greyfriars / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Blubbing, of course, is utterly shameful. However, in the depths of deepest woe and blackest injustice it is acceptable to lock oneself in one's study and roughly rub one's eyes with the back of one's hand. Somewhat subverted in the first few stories, where several times the young Harry Wharton has to force back tears in front of his new classmates - but they aren't caused by sorrow, they're tears of rage from the "rotten temper" he hasn't yet learned to control. Bulstrode breaks down and sobs in the form-room while his young brother lies dying. Nobody thinks any the worse of him.
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Greyfriars / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Greyfriars / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: School sports are serious business and no mistake.
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Greyfriars / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
Greyfriars / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: The writing style, particularly in some of the novels. For example, in Bunter the Bad Lad we are constantly reminded who wrote the limerick (Coker), what it said (his form master is an idiot), who now has a hand written copy (Bunter), what he doing with said copy (blackmail), what will happen to Coker if a master reads it (expulsion), what Coker is in (a jam), etc, etc, pretty much every chapter (of which there are 35).
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Greyfriars / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
Greyfriars / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Mr Quelch's firm but fair manner as a form master wins him the respect of most of the form. However, he in not nearly fierce enough to earn the obedience of all.
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Greyfriars / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Greyfriars / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: The narrative never leaves the audience guessing at the distinction between right and wrong, and many of the protagonists are willing to make ridiculous sacrifices rather than cross the line.
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Greyfriars / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
Greyfriars / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: A common recurring plot. Usually, a minor prank gets played and the perpetrator chooses or is forced to deny their involvement. As the hunt for the culprit heats up and the punishments begin to pile on, things start to turn serious for those suspected, and the longer they keep up the lie, the more wildly things spin out of control until they're eventually found out.
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Greyfriars / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Greyfriars / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Wharton's duties as headboy often put him at odds with the rest of the form.
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Greyfriars / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Greyfriars / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Bunter, after he took the title role.
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Greyfriars / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Greyfriars / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Greyfriars is pretty archetypal for this trope.
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Greyfriars / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Greyfriars / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: A celebrated virtue.
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Greyfriars / int_8c1ac7c4	type	High Hopes, Zero Talent
Greyfriars / int_8c1ac7c4	comment	High Hopes, Zero Talent: Bunter mistakenly fancies himself as everything from a world-class footballer to a world-class detective.
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Greyfriars / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Greyfriars / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: Pranks have a bad habit of getting out of hand and going awry, to the surprise of the characters but often not the reader. For example, when the Highcliffe nuts lie in wait on a coastal path to give Redwing a ragging, the reader is alerted to the sheer drop over the cliff edge, while the nuts apparently don't notice until Ponsonby and Redwing fall off of it.
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Greyfriars / int_97919578	type	Class Trip
Greyfriars / int_97919578	comment	Class Trip: From the mid-1920s onwards The Magnet ran holiday series which coincided with the real-life school holiday times and often featured Harry Wharton and Co, Bunter and other characters journeying abroad, particularly in the long summer holidays.
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Greyfriars / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Greyfriars / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Lord Mauleverer. Slightly inverted as he does, in fact, have many skills. 90% of his time is spent lolling in armchairs and replying to everything with "yaas", however.
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Greyfriars / int_a7faec8e	type	Written Sound Effect
Greyfriars / int_a7faec8e	comment	Written Sound Effect: Very common. There's a lot of fights and corporal punishment in the series and most of it is rendered as sound effects and bizarre exclamations. The most famous is "Yarooh!" which perhaps not by chance is "Hooray" spelt backwards. The spelling of Bunter's yells also contains more or less O's, depending on how hard he's being caned, kicked etc. A typical example of a caning: Whop! "Wow!" yelled Bunter. Whop! "Whooooooop!" Whop! "Yarooooh!" Whop! "Yow-ow-ow! Leggo!"
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Greyfriars / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Bunter: "I say, you fellows!" "He he he!". Hurree Jamset Ram Singh: "The (whatever)fulness is terrific!" or "the (whatever)fulness is the esteemed proper caper." Lord Mauleverer: "Yaas."
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Greyfriars / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: Vernon-Smith has a well-developed sense of honour and soon leans the value of playing the game and pulling with the team, but has a dark streak in his nature that draws him to the shadier pursuits in schoolboy life. His periodic slips cause his friends to doubt him, while his old comrades are always happy to welcome him back.
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Greyfriars / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Known variously as "The Famous Five", "The Co.", "The Chums" etc. Wharton, Bob Cherry, Nugent, Huree Jamset Ram Singh and Johnny Bull are the main driving force of the Remove, and will back one another up through thick and thin.
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Greyfriars / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Billy, Sammy and Bessie Bunter are extremely alike in habits and (alas for Bessie) looks.
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Greyfriars / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: The slang. Some of it is general boarding school stuff, a lot is nicked from "Jabberwocky" and some is just made up.
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Greyfriars / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Cliff House Girls' School, and its three most established pupils (Bessie Bunter, Marjorie Hazeldene and Clara Trevelyn), were established in the Greyfriars stories and subsequently spun off to their own series of girls' school stories, supposedly written by Frank Richards' sister, Hilda Richards. Oddly, after the first few issues (which were actually penned by Charles Hamilton himself) there is almost no overlap between Cliff House as it appears in The Magnet and how it appears in its own papers, The School Girl and The School Friend. Bessie, Marjorie and Clara appear concurrently in both series with no reference to the other, so that they gradually develop rather different personalities and appearances. Greyfriars characters (including Billy Bunter) are never mentioned in the Cliff House stories, and the major players introduced in the Cliff House stories (Barbara, Mabel and Jemima) never appear in the Greyfriars stories.
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Greyfriars / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: fatfatfatfat. e.g.: "it might really have been supposed that the fat Owl had something on his fat mind which quite excluded our island story from his plump thoughts."
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Greyfriars / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Alonzo Todd is an extraordinarily simple soul, with an endlessly trusting nature and absolutely zero common sense. For him, every day is April Fools Day.
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Greyfriars / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Redwing to Vernon-Smith. A slight variation in that while Redwing's steadying influence generally helps Smithy stay on the straight-and-narrow (well, roughly), when Smithy flat-out means to be bad, Redwing's intervention is met with a hypersensitive hostile backlash. Later in their friendship (for example, the Smedley series) Redwing learns not to waste a 'pi-jaw' on Smithy, and simply waits anxiously for the moment to beat some sense into him.
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Greyfriars / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: A common plot - often escalating from trivial to incredibly serious as the dominoes fall.
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Greyfriars / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: A typical plea of innocence for Bunter is about 90% confession. "Don't you go telling Smithy I had his chocs. He never had any chocs, as far as I know, and they weren't in a box, and the box wasn't on his study table..."
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Greyfriars / int_e7cd994c	comment	Anti-Role Model: Skinner, Snoop and Stott happily smoke, gamble, visit pubs, lie, cheat, etc. Funnily enough, they're also poor fighters, terrible at sports, unfetchingly described and disliked by most of the form. While Vernon-Smith was much the same in his early appearances, his redemption came hand in hand with an increase in wit, strength and sporting prowess.
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Greyfriars / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Greyfriars' students are familiar with characters from other associated school stories, e.g.: St Jim's (The Gem) and Cliff House (Schoolgirl's Own).
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Greyfriars / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: As you'd expect with in a series headed by one of the most gluttonous characters ever written, tuck hampers full of moist, sugar-encrusted plum cakes, rich chocolates, sweet and crumbly macaroons, etc., etc., feature prominently. Not to mention all the hot muffins and steaming cocoa by the study fire on a foggy November evening...
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Greyfriars / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: One less common example that might have you looking up etymology is when Fisher T. Fish declares himself and others to be 'cute'. "Bunter the Hypnotist" from 1938 contains a chapter in which Harry Wharton is looking for his Latin dictionary. The opening line is "Seen my dick?"
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Greyfriars / int_fad7b727	type	Fun with Foreign Languages
Greyfriars / int_fad7b727	comment	Fun with Foreign Languages: Whoever taught Hurree Jamset Ram Singh English decided to save time when it came to proverbs and idioms by combining several into a single phrase, e.g.: "it is the unexpected that happens to a bird in the bush and makes the cracked pitcher go longest to a stitch in time."
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