Revision as of 21:35, 6 October 2006

Precis

• Possibly the greatest man the world has ever known. That is all.
• We came to the conclusion the 'P' in his initials 'SPO' stood for Poraig. Whereas his middle name is in fact Padraig so not far off.

Quotes

"sir: Were going to watch a harry potter! student: sir is it harry potter and the chamber of sex toys? sir: yes, yes, that one!"

"Ok Ok I'm not here I'm on Mars"

"Right I've made a mental note of who's here" (everyone marked present even if absent)

"Right... All here" (to room with three people)

(Before tutorial) "You're leaving are you? No. Sit down, we're doing something this week. Oh....erm... off you go"

"You're on a beach with the sun beating down. Not too hot, mind. Just nice and comfortable."

"Hmm... yes... right... OK..."

"Bone away now." (Strange mispronunciation of 'phone')

Student: "Sir, say something funny!"

Mr Overend: (With chav-esque 'innit' hand gesture) "Ho ho ho! sick, man!"

"OK, Susan... are those the words of Harper Lee? I think not."

Talking of taboo language: "Fuck is no more a swear-word than, say, chair." Then added, "it's just how we associate words with certain things." [and, to be honest, many people would agree with him]

(walking out doors of room 10) EDDIE! (wordlessly walks back in)

To horrified pupil after getting a bit too into one of his lessons: Oh I'm sorry...I appear to spitting all over you!

"Take it eeeeeesay!"

SHOUTS: "You will not make me mad!" (Whilst staring, with a vein popping out of his head, and counting to ten)

"a ROSE by any other name... so if i called a rose a... a..... BOLGERJUJADA!!" - whole class jumps to attention, worried that sir is having a seizure....

"Emma Bosher, stop looking at that plant!"

"What do you think you're doing? Mkaing bloody gestures behind my back... i'm trying to teach a lesson... GET ON WITH YOUR WORK!"

"OK so for Thursday yeah yeah...." ... "Sir we don't have you on Thursday" ... "Yeah ok then so for Thursday's lesson" ... "Sir we don't have you... can we hand it in on Friday?" ... "Ok yeah so Thursday it is."

AWESOME THINGS THAT MR OVEREND HAS DONE

THROWN AN MP3 PLAYER ACROSS ROOM 10. DROPPED A MOBILE PHONE OUT OF A WINDOW. YELLED IN A SCREAMING RAGE INCHES AWAY FROM DANI WILKINS NOSE. BEEN TEACHER OF A CLASS FROM HELL IN 2005/6,who made him do all these things. AND MORE, SO MUCH MORE THAT I CANT BEGIN TO WRITE IT.

Further things he has done