To Spank a Student

We were innocently driving through Norwich city centre when I cried: “Spank Student! Oh my god, there, there, look!”

“Pardon?” Abel, conveniently pausing at the lights, gave me a confused look. Our friend who was with us in the car was similarly puzzled. Of course, we had been talking about spanking just moments before, but for once the conversation had nothing to do with students.

“No, you’re not looking!” I stuck a finger at the window. “There, on the left, where I’m pointing!”

Abel looked and cried: “Oh my god!”

Our friend looked and cried: “Oh my god!”

Here’s what we saw. On the wall of the building we were driving past there stretched a great yellow banner, which said (in big, clear letters visible even in winter dusk):

SPANK STUDENT

And underneath, very helpfully: spankstudent.com

There was no hint as to what this was actually advertising – a shop? a newspaper? a bar? a national campaign for the introduction of corporal punishment in universities?

Not that it matters, but it’s a chain of clubs (the dancing and booze kind, not the fetish kind), which appears to run discos in several UK towns. The origins of the name are not at all obvious from their home page, though their logo is unequivocal:

Spank Student Logo

You can get merchandise with that picture, you know. Not the hottest spanking pic on the web, but you can’t be picky about what sort of spanking references you catch in the wild just by driving around.

4 thoughts on “To Spank a Student

  • 16 November, 2006 at 2:17 pm
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    Wow! I love stuff like that when it happens! Why didnt you have a camera with you guys??? :( Mija did when she took pic of that punishment Motorola ad. hehe

    Anyway… good job Haron! 😉
    Hugz!

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  • 16 November, 2006 at 4:10 pm
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    Drive-by photography with a lousy camera-phone is not my strongest suit, alas, so it had to be a link to their site instead :)

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  • 16 November, 2006 at 10:30 pm
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    LOL unlike Haron, I’m quite good at taking photos with the camera on my mobile. Only problem is, I have no clue whatsoever how to then send or download the photos. Oh the joys of technical ineptitude…

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