Dr L. Arthur Robinson

"You Boy!" (a common saying)

Biography

Born in a distant time, Doctor L. Arthur Robinson (or Doc Rob, as even Mrs Helm calls him), is one of the most under-rated members of staff in the school. Everyone argues that Mr Fuller was one of the greatest teachers to ever live, but Doc Rob is arguably greater.

Despite doing ten times more work than anyone else in the school (and that's not to say other teachers are slackers, but he does everyone's timetables at the start of the year, random assemblies, teaches several classes in both Geography and CT, and is also second in command to Lord Morris), he never looks particularly busy, and often has time to take place in charity events such as hockey matches..

Put quite simply, his knowledge of Geography, or for that matter, ANYTHING, is superior to anyone else alive today. He can successfully give a ten minute lecture on complex Chemistry or Physics, perfectly delivered, and then state that his knowledge of these subjects is "pretty poor", despite knowing more than any student (or staff member) he talks to. Also, he is an absolute goldmine in terms of comedy quotes (below), and for all these reasons, and many more besides, he deserves his status as a legend of our time.

Many year 7s, and pupils in higher years as well, don't actually know that his name is Doctor Robinson. They assume that "Doc Rob" stands for Doctor Roberts, or other, stranger names.

His impending retirement is a travesty of the modern age, meaning that future generations will never have the privilege of meeting this great man. It says something about his talents that his job is being split between two future candidates, or "mortals" as they are known...

With the coming of his retirement, the school will surely fall, once again, into the dark ages. Doc Rob is never and has never been ill whilst at BRGS. He never goes home, but instead lives in his office - his family come to see him at the weekends for tea and biscuits. It has even been suggested that if he leaves the school grounds, then the entire building will collapse. This nearly happened when Mr Elkington had his appendix removed, the only reason the school still stands is because Doc Rob held it upon his shoulders.

Nicknames

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• Dr Frankenstein (He came up to JoeK in the dinner queue and shouted "You look like something out of frankenstein" because his tie was short and his top button was undone.)

Knowledge

Dr Robinson has an extremely robust knowledge on the topic of absolutely anything. The one thing that he was found not to know was why there was a '6' in the A2 Geography coursework spreadsheet's Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient formula. Then again, who does?

He is also capable of "repairing" any dodgy electrical item merely by shouting at it. Even non-sentient electrical devices are in awe of Doc Rob's power...

Quotes

The Classics

• How he says questions is legend, "kwesteons" thoroughly pronouncing every syllable

• "Britain used to have nice cows, a nice black colour. Now there's all these foreign cows with a kind of horrible, mangey coloured ginger hair. *points to girl* JUST LIKE YOURS!"

• "Those are NOT your pens!"

• "Do the botty shuffle to clean that desk BOY"

• "That's bloody hot!" (his response to getting burnt by a geyser in Iceland)

• "Sometimes reminds you of a bald eagle in a suit!" (commenting on Lord Morris)

• "Gordon Bennett!" (On colliding with a chair left in the basement corridor, which he failed to notice due to his towering height and a preoccupation with a piece of paper in his hand)

• "Who put that there!" (This time hitting his head on a fire hose hung on the wall)

• "Oh Botherations!"

• "Am I right or am I right?"

• "Have you done this? Say yes"

• "Processeeeeees"

• "Out of the 1,297 students to attend this school, you are the first two to walk under my umbrella! You should write it in your memoirs! Oh look, this is the official BRGS whistle." Puts whistle in mouth and blows at passer by*. "TUCK YOUR SHIRT IN, BOY!"

• "I can't draw to save myself"

• "Right!"

• Mrs Taylor: "...Dreaming of Beyonce...."

Doc Rob: "WHO?" (looks distinctly proud of himself)

• "You should be very privileged to have me escorting you to your lesson, only 3 BRGS pupils have been under the OFFICIAL BRGS umbrella, and to have ME walking you there, that's an honour. Well when you look back on your life, this should be a key turning point for you." Then when he's walked me to the door. "Goodbye," (walks back in the direction we came)

• "These are not predictions." (pronounced rather strangely) "These just tell you how well you should do."

• During an assembly where the theme was love, "I'm going to give a piece of my love to Mr Morris (A student wolf-whistles), and he's going to give a bit of love to Mrs Taylor." (A student wolf-whistles again, with much laughter).

• That my dear boy, is Truancy!

• (after walking into the boys toilets) OOH! THAT'S INTERESTING! (to this day, the reason has not yet been found for this exclaimation)

• [Felix Mulderrig walks into detention 3 minutes late]

Doc Rob: "Felix you shall stay behind 3 minutes after every one else"
[10 minutes after everyone's gone]
Felix: "Sir please could I go"
Doc Rob: "FELIX! What the devil are still doing here?"

You Boy!

[always delivered in a thoroughly rattly voice at high volume]

• "YOU BOY!" (delivered without any regard to age/gender)

• "YOU BOY! THE SMALL ONE!"

• "YOU GIRL, in the bandelero."

• "YOU!...don't go to this school do you. Carry on." (to prospective year 6 student)

Dressing Down Quotes

• "Go outside and shoot yourself"

• "If you think you're going UP those stairs you're very much mistaken"

• "THOSE ARE THE UP STAIRS!"

• "Phillip Marsh is a very naughty boy"

• "Don't forget to ask your granny to buy you some highlighters"

• "Quiet boy or detention will ensue" (from 6th form yearbook class of '05)

• "So if there's three parts to this question and three marks for the whole question how many marks is it per part?"
  

"Three?"
"Whoever said that go outside and commit suicide."

• "You Boy, BRETHERTON! Tuck your shirt in or detention WILL ensue!"

• "You Boy, with the foolish hair this is a one way system turn round and go back!"

• "You there, did you get dressed in the dark this morning or do you take pride in looking like a baboon!"

In the course of lessons

• "Imagine this piece of paper is a leaf intercepting rainfall." (Then spits, misses the paper and lands on a students book).

• "Imagine I'm the river" (then proceeds to walk accross the class room knocking all tables and chairs out of the way). "I am eroding."

• "An Oxo cube is condensed cow"

• "I remember that............... I must be old....." (covering History lesson)

• "Awful thing... Country at a standstill... actually I liked it I got a few days off for that!" (talking to Mr Williamson about the Winter of Discontent)

• "Stop complaining! These are quality Robinson Bogeys"

• "And remember, Robinson's First Law is.." (they're all first laws, all 57 of them)

• "Why are you holding up the sky?" (in response to people putting up their hands.. year 7 tech lesson - he was on supply)

• "Oooh, it's a Tampax!!" (upon finding a tampon on the floor in a yr12 CT lesson)

• "You know, green pen is what we Senior Examiners use. Mortals use red."

• "I am a glacier and i pluck the rock from the corrie wall." (as he nearly rips the whiteboard from the class wall).

• "Right, I'm going to randomly pick one of the class" (proceeds to close eyes and spin hand through the air to simulate the effect of random selection, leading to a brushing of the head with a red marker, producing a "Potteresque" mark across the forehead)

• "You know! Water! Water from a bottle, or WATER (points to his crotch)! Yes? Oh, never mind then."

• "Of course you have to be a resident of the U.K to be able to vote! That's obviously why aliens cant vote isn't it?"

• "Do you know what a conceptual model is? And we AREN'T talking about Naomi Campbell here."

• "You were late to my lesson yet you still had time to buy a waffle. I hope it's full of hydrogenated vegetable oil and makes you obese"

• "My gosh it's a long one!"

Expressions of Anguish

• "Why won't this work?" (Clicking the wall thinking it is the interactive white board)

• "WORK!" (at any electrical appliance which doesn't want to do it. Mainly because it's not turned on)

• "What the Dickens?" (In response to fire-alarm soundalike)

• "Oh buggarage" (Whilst trying to back a minibus into a small gap and not quite managing)

• "It's bloody hot!!" (Whilst being splashed by boiling geyser water in Iceland)

• "Oh no! Oh my! Don't panic, Captain Mannering!"

Quotes in the course of just three cover lessons

• "So what is this? No, not a snotty hanky, it's humus"

• "I'm being a tree! Come on!"

• "I had a Chemistry teacher who changed his sex a few years after I left"

• "Unfortunately it's French"

• "I'm a bit thick"

• "Crummy peds"

• "You've obviously heard of Cherapunji?" *blank faces* "NO??" (If you haven't by the way, it is officially the wettest place on Earth, with something like 40 feet of rain a year. See, now you know :P)

• "What do you lot do in the bath? Actually I'd best not ask.."

• "Homework: Go home and have a bath"

• "About 4 inches.. if you prefer centimetres then it's 100mm an hour"

• "Oh no! The worm's been dissolved!"

Weapons of choice

• Critical Thinking mind control techniques.

• Umbrella, very dangerous when used.

• Eye of the Hawk- The amazing ability Doc Rob has to see a undone top button from one side of the canteen to the other, despite the fact said year 7 had his tie done up at the time. This incident inevitably concluded in a spectacular display of 'YOU BOY!' which brought the entire canteen to a standstill until said traumatised year 7 scuttled away behind Doc Rob's striding walk.

Some outstanding mysteries

• His initials are LAR. Yet he is known as Arthur. His mysterious first name will be posted on the inside of locker 2532 when term resumes.

• One certain person at Durham knows his first name. I went to see him one day and he was on the phone to the doctors... I was going to post it.. until I found the mysteries bit then thought I'd leave it. It is however not Leslie as many people believe, nor is it the more rarely thought Lucifer.

• Could it be Leonard? [This bit posted by One Who Knows.]

• A school Geography book dons him "Lawrence", although this may be a coverup

• It IS Leonard...he told his year 10 geography class 2004/2005!He also revealed that he does however prefer to be known as Arthur. At last...the mystery resolved!!

• How is he capable of being in twelve places at once?

• Did he indeed sleep in his office during the petrol crisis?

• How can he run the school, yet still be photographed sleeping off a cold in his office?

Mistakes

What? How very dare you! Doc Rob does not make mistakes.

(Well, OK, perhaps the one where he was covered in boiling hot geyser water springs to mind...)