James Lendrum

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James looking happy, and not without reason!

Full Name: James 'Lenny' Lendrum

Hobbies: Making business cards and fiddling with a picture of himself

Known Aliases: James, Lenny, Lenster, Lennerd, Lynard, Lenboy, Lenrod, Lendy, Len-meister, Lendizzle, Lenshizzle, Lenundrum, Lenmeister, That-guy-from-the-Kooks, Bob Dylenny, "OI! HAIRY FREAK!".

Shorterned version of his dictionary definition: Complete Legend

Self-Proclaimed Titles: The Ineffable Lenny, The Mighty Bouf

The underlined word often changes depending on Lennys mood. He sometimes also changes his "name" - The Ineffable Suit (work experience), Nose (random). His various adjectives have been:

• The Ineffable Lenny
• The Infallible Lenny
• The Inflatable Lenny
• The Inflammable Lenny
• The Inedible Lenny

As can be seen, these adjectives follow the pattern of in- words.

The Mighty Bouf, should you not know, refers to Lenny's afro-like hair, and is a reference to the TV program "The Mighty Boosh". Though no-one knows why this is so.

Lenny - The Man Behind the Legend

Said to be the lead singer from The Kooks, Lenny is well-renowned for his curly locks, often recalling the event in manchester where some member of the public shouted, "Hey! Look everybody! It's that guy from the Kooks!" while peacefully shopping in GAME.

A Legend in his own right, Lenny has been known as "Lenny" to the masses for a relatively short amount of time. He insists that he has been known as "Lenny" since he was about 6, but no-one believes him. Most people had never heard of Lenny until after Year 9 camp. In fact he fondly rattles off various anecdotes in which people hear him being called Lenny and reply "You mean you're Lenny?! I thought you were James Lendrum!" or vice versa. He once had someone tell him they thought that James Lendrum and Lenny were two completely different people... and neither of them him!

It seems that from around the start of Year 10 he took off and soon became the infamous little scamp he is today.

As will be discussed in this article Lenny is well-known for various things including his hair, his sites, his books, his complete inability to play Pool, and the fact that he scares not one, not two, but at least a small handful of people... oh! And his love of hats.

Hats off to the Master!

The picture that started it all!

Lennys love for hats started after he took a picture of himself instead of revising for his Physics mock (consequently, he only scored 84%).

He eventually began doctoring this picture in his favourite image ediotr - Macromedia Fireworks.

Starting with only a few hats - a fishermans, and a green bowler hat perched precariously on his solid mass of hair - this soon expanded into the 17 or so we know today, with more being added all the time. They can all be viewed on his highly successful website, which we will touch upon at a later stage.

Due to popular request, a list of the more famous hats has been compiled, and Lenny has added the photos to his Myspace:

• Fishing Hat Lenny
• Green Bowler Lenny
• Pope Lenny (complete with staff)
• Pimp Lenny (with hat, starry glasses and green, furry coat)
• Diving Helmet Lenny
• Two Pirate hats (with a parrot and eyepatch)
• Santa Clens
• Psychotic Lenny (complete with Chainsaw)
• Clown Lenny (he may be allergic to face paint, but that doesn't stop him... he looks quite scary actually)
• Viking Lenny

To Pot or not to Pot, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the Slinger and arrows of outrageous fluke shots...

Sixth Form has so far been kind to Lenny. Not only does he fit in perfectly with the friendly and slightly mad Lower Sixth crew (see Kroll and Heskey), but he has already proven himself a Pool-Shark, albeit a rather bad one. Often he can be found potting 3 or 4 balls off the break in a superb run, before sinking suddenly into a pit of skilllessness, as if he had been successfully navigating his way down a green, furry shopping street before suddenly falling into the deep, dark abyss of a pocket-like manhole. Occassionally he pops back up onto the shopping street with a miraculous pot of unrivalled skill... then falling back into another open manhole.

Off the table, however, Lenny has knowledge of the game second only to most of the Pool-Crew. Often livening up a game with general advice, arguing with the other onlookers on whether you should have two shots on the black, or by just shouting "DOUBLE IT!! Tss! If you'd have doubled it it would have gone in!".

To say he is so bad, he has actually won some games:

• Beating James Whish once in a doubles match
• Beating Rob Shepherd once in a doubles match
• Beating Liam Collopy... by default
• Beating Dom Lord twice on the trot (one was by default)
• Beatng Joe Burrows three times! (albeit all by default)

Yeah, not the best of records, but he's managed to beat 3 whole people by playing and winning properly. Good on him.

His losses, however, are to numerous to number. Some of the most memorable are:

• Being beatne by Johnathan Haworth 18 times in a row (he kep potting the black whilst Lenny cleared up his balls still on the table)
• 7-balled twice in a row by Johnathan Haworth as he tried to smash is record of 18 (reaching only 16)

Lenny also had a hand in Kroll setting the record for racking.

Lenny is currently taking part in the Lower Sixth Pool Doubles Tournament with partner Rob Pilling (poor Rob). He has odds of 100:1 on him winning - something that has already been taken advantage of by several students. The bookies have so far taken in nearly £2 of bets on Lenny. Should he win, they will all be broke.

Never Fear! Lenny's Hair is Here!

One of Lenny's main points of reference is his unkempt hair. Like a painting with a tree stuck in the middle making people instantly look at it, the hair of our subject sticks out like sore thumb in a tub of drawing pins.

It has been hypothesised that, similar to Bob Marley's hair, Lenny has various different species of animal (many undiscovered species), ranging from spider to vole to tribe of Albino Pygmies, that call it home.

The hair has often been the source of many comments and wilful looks. He has been asked whether it is natural (110%), when he last had a hair cut (six weeks ago - but only a trim. Not a proper one for nearly a year), what he would look like with it all shaved off (daft) and, most importantly, whether he is the lead singer from popular band The Kooks (sadly, no).

Links and References

Lenny's site/s can be found at:

• The Ineffable Lenny
• The Worlds of Muldrum
• Lenco. Productions

Lenny's Myspace can be found at:

• The Ineffable Myspace