Cocktail supplied by Martin Gibbs consisting of a drop from each bottle of his father's sizeable drinks cabinet with the balance made up with cooking sherry. The bulk of the cocktail was generally given to anyone who had PE that afternoon and the subsequent displays of ridiculous drunken excess would have resulted in stern disiplinary action had our PE teacher not been a habitual alcoholic himself. Gibbs Suprise also led to the incapacitation of our cross country team - the only thing for which our school was famed. Thus I like to think it played a small part in the school's collapse into the very bottom of the league tables.

Also known as a "bastard". When unable to procure our own alcohol a group of friends and I would tour our houses at lunchtime with a large jam jar or bottle, stopping off at each drinks cabinet to fill up with a measure or two of anything we could find and make a bastard. We'd then proceed to drink the bastard. Us being young, and the bastard being very strong, we would usually then throw up the bastard.