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CGCU Slave Auction

Feb 11 2005 00:38
Chris McIver
An Excellent Auction, An Interesting End.
Mr Singh (seated) and Mr Roper (standing).

The CGCU bar night saw many willing volunteers auctioned for RAG, with the average bid per canidate being well over £20. Henri Ozarovsky was chosen as auctioneer for his amazing ability to work the crowd and certainly gave an impressive performance.

Some of the first volunteers included Sanjeev Sarda and Mustafa Arif. Tom Elliott had his sideburns shaved off raising over £120 for RAG and this led on to Adam Roper from motor club and Sid Singh from Guildsheet also having huge amounts of hair removed. Mr Elliot paid a small fortune to keep his eyebrow but Mr Singh raised a huge amount by losing one (he is reportedly now completely bald rather than the patchy mess he was left in). Mr Roper rapped a memorable commentary of the shavings in his own unique style.

Felix Editor Dave Edwards was contested between Martin Smith of Broadsheet (Physical Sciences News Letter) and Sid Singh of Guildsheet and was eventually won by Mr Singh to edit media groups annual edition of Gulix (a Felix spoof). We wish all the best of luck to Medics President Lucy Pickard who was purchased by a group of rugby players.

When RSM President John Sykes took to the podium he seemed worryingly keen to remove his trousers and show off the large frilly pink knickers he’d chosen to wear and this raised his value considerably. Quincy Allan, also of RSM, raised £100 by downing a yard of cider.

The crowd offered a huge £200 for RAG Chair Chris Jackson to pole dance around his beloved in nothing but his underpants, but Mr. Jackson rose the bid to £205 and the auction was closed for the sake of Mr. Jackson’s bank account.

The evening drew to a close with the CGCU President being auctioned to perform an interesting task along with the RSM President which raised over £280.

Huge respect is due to Mr Collins and Mr Sykes for going through with the task in hand and with the speed at which they can both run while under pressure.

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Discussion about “CGCU Slave Auction”

The comments below are unmoderated submissions by Live! readers. The Editor accepts no liability for their content, nor for any offence caused by them. Any complaints should be directed to the Editor.
1. Dan   
Feb 11 2005 00:46
 

It was Adam from the Motor Club, not Ant....

Feb 11 2005 00:48
 

"and here's three cheers, and one cheer more, for the brave little captain of C&G"

seriously though, much respect to all involved and I think by the looks of those pictures that Mr Collins needs a good quality feed.

Feb 11 2005 09:27
 

All credit to the auctioneer who sold John, giving the bar time to find the money was a master stroke.

Feb 11 2005 09:44
 

Come on Mr McIver, surely a musical offering for this article would have been better, something along the lines of:

"Nudity,

Must be the President of C&G,

Up near Harrods he just ran past me

That again, I don't want to see"

Feb 11 2005 12:34
 

yes, but I've been doing G&S recently. I'll come up with something better for the sing-a-long-a-RAG mag

Feb 11 2005 15:38
 

Yes indeed, both Johns have my undying respect for running the show under all that pressure.

Feb 11 2005 17:18
 

I've started updateing this article and am having serious technical problems (my laptop's got annoyed and isn't talking to me), and unfortunately have run out of time for today so shall be leaving the details until tomorrow.

Hope the suspense isn't too much for anyone.

Feb 11 2005 23:29
 

"Johnny we love ya, yes we do!"

now all that is left is supporting the medics at the varsity and for the rest of the RAG team to collect the outstanding money, Aaisha latif to change her hair colour and I am waiting for my eye brows to grow back...

Feb 12 2005 19:19
 

Tell me what colour to change it then! The sooner you do, the sooner I can wash it out.

With regards to the Slave Auction, well done everyone for being such good sports. I'm really sorry if you think things went a bit far (I can't help but feel a bit guilty over Sid's loss of hair. I blame mob mentality. Oh and myself. Partialy).

Feb 12 2005 22:31
 

I open the discussion to the same mob:

I invite all to contribute hair colour options for Ms. Latif's beautiful curls.

Feb 13 2005 10:56
 

Owe, my bank account is hurting,

Feb 13 2005 18:22
 

I vote for 4 stripes, like the Imperial scarves.

13. Nia   
Feb 13 2005 18:31
 

I vote for blue like the lego brick.

(and cos I've always wanted blue hair but never had the guts :-s)

Feb 13 2005 19:18
 

Clearly, it has to be Guilds Red!

Feb 13 2005 20:40
 

Or Red, yellow and green for the RAG colors! Time for a new Live! poll on this one.

Feb 15 2005 23:53
 

i hear Live! really is going down hill and may have slipped even further this afternoon...

Its not like the old days...

CGCU has no bollocks

'sniff'

17. H@t   
Feb 16 2005 00:00
 

your friendly link checking service says that new lnk to a photo doesnt work......

Feb 16 2005 11:23
 

Yes, Live! is going down hill - frankly its a pile of c**p that is used to let people know about a few events that have already happened, and also as a propoghanda/smearing machine if someone wants to put someone down.

Shame they don't have the balls too publish the news anymore - perhaps thats best left to Felix. HAH.

19. editor   
Feb 16 2005 11:43
 

If you want news and know about it why not submit it eh? Don't whine when it's easy enough to send it in. We don't know everything you know.

Feb 16 2005 12:10
 

Editor? I'd heard you'd all resigned...

21. Hmm   
Feb 16 2005 12:32
 

funny that the strongest criticism comes from someone involved in a story where live did expose a certain union officer for not doing their job?

22. Editor   
Feb 16 2005 12:39
 

You are misinformed!

23. H@t   
Feb 16 2005 12:55
 

well inform us then!

;-)

24. Ruth   
Feb 16 2005 13:07
 

Who above is misinformed, everyone, more news, Sanjeev...? Just so we all know!

"let people know about a few events that have already happened"

Sanjeev, doesn't news include things that have already happened?

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