Max Boyce Was In Collage And He Didn't Know It!

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When I was in college, one of the lecturers who was from the Middle East and was learning how to speak English as he taught us (He was a very kind man though it was difficult for us to understand him at first) made the mistake of asking us to write our names on his register. No other lecturers did a register so not sure if they were meant to and they just did it at home? But anyway. This lecturer did.
Now as we wrote our names, I saw three extra names that went down there, which were Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Max Boyce, so every time we went to his class he would call out the names, and we would have to make excuses for why these three extra people were not turning up for class, and try and keep a straight face while doing so!
This guy really didn't know who Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck was, though at the time even though I had heard his name mentioned on TV, I didn't really know who Max Boyce was (I do now and he would chuckle if he read this).

Now around six months in to this two year course, he was getting concerned about these pupils that were not turning up, and he decided to march himself down to the Principles office (A mystery man in charge I don't think we even saw during our time in college though apparently he was there), and he came back a bit annoyed with himself about having been pranked... So Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were deleted off his register, but Max Boyce was there right through the two years of the General Engineering course! He didn't dare complain to the Principle about Max, but he would keep asking us questions like where Max lived as he wanted to find out why Max wasn't turning up for his lessons!

The real Max Boyce would have known nothing about the antics of the pranksters I was in college with!
Once this Middle Eastern lecturer said he wanted to learn Welsh, and some of the boys were teaching him Welsh, but what he "Thought" he was saying was something else. Not being able to speak in Welsh myself, I did not know what was going on, but later I saw him going into the staff room all smiles going to lractice his newly learned Welsh on the other staff, and a crowd of my classmates were sort of hiding behind the door peering through the window. I asked "What is happening?" and was told to keep quiet. There I watched the lecturer with a big smile saying something, and one of the other lecturers almost dropped his cup of tea and the other lecturers lookingat him in shock with their mouths open, and then one of my classmates said "Now run!" and they all legged it down the corriror and I was left standing there behind the door, before I thought I'd better run as well making myself look even more suspicious! : D

The things that went on in that college! I never did find out what was said!

I never heard of Max Boyce either, until just now when I was forced to google him.



Is that a typical Welsh accent?

Is the South Wales accent and humour. Humour of the Welsh Celts!

Nitpicking thing: “college” is a school of higher learning, while “collage” is a near homonym that refers to an artwork made of many smaller pictures.

I once taught a short course in robotics. I am good at computers but bad at people and have trouble with ADHD and Executive Functioning. I forgot to do what your professor did and take attendance or even make a class list. The course only took three weeks (one session per week) but it took me several months to assign credit to the attendees. I had to cross reference the sign-up list with email history and paperwork the students had done. It was like trying to build a pyramid out of marbles on a dining room table while the marbles kept rolling off the table and bouncing around the floor. Being a teacher is hard.

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