{"id":1591,"date":"2007-11-09T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2007-11-09T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T10:12:11","slug":"paging-john-cleese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Paging John Cleese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,22723210-5001028,00.html\">This story<\/a> reads like a <em>Fawlty Towers<\/em> scene; a mother in Britain books a birthday surprise for her son during the school day.\u00a0 She <em>thought <\/em>she&#8217;d booked a guy in a gorilla suit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s here the <em>Fawlty <\/em>script kicks in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <em>Daily Mail <\/em>said the teenager&#8217;s mother had told the teacher beforehand that a \u201cbirthday surprise\u201d would walk in during the class and requested that it be filmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;d be here that Basil Fawlty would give the order to Manuel the waiter &#8211; and the hijinx would kick in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead of a gorilla, an adult performer showed up at Arnold High School in Nottingham dressed as a policewoman and spanked the boy 16 times in front of his classmates, the newspaper said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>She stripped to her underwear while dancing to a Britney Spears song and asked the teenager to rub cream all over her body before the \u201cstunned\u201d teacher called an end to the act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s from Barce<em>lo<\/em>na&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe teacher suddenly announced: \u2018Something is about to happen\u2019,\u201d the student said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThen a woman in a very short skirt walked in dressed as a copper. She asked the lad to stand up, which he did, and told him he had been a very naughty boy because he hadn\u2019t been doing his homework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The performer put on some music and had the teenager put a collar on her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one could believe it,\u201d the student said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext she ordered him to get on all fours, led him around the classroom and hit him 16 times -one for each year\u00a0&#8211; on the bottom with her whip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper quoted the student as saying that it was wehen the stripper pulled some cream out of her bag that the teacher took action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be fair to the teacher, you could tell she was just stunned, and when the cream came out she told the stripper: \u2018That\u2019s it. That\u2019s enough\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not all laughs&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The student said the birthday boy ran out of the classroom while the stripper packed her bag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping Cleese buys the film rights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story reads like a Fawlty Towers scene; a mother in Britain books a birthday surprise for her son during the school day.\u00a0 She thought she&#8217;d booked a guy in a gorilla suit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s here the Fawlty script kicks in: The Daily Mail said the teenager&#8217;s mother had told the teacher beforehand that a \u201cbirthday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}