[Lee.]

My Latin teacher used to frighten me (at first) he used to keep a big bamboo looking cane beside his desk and if anthing annoyed him like people forgetting their homework etc he used to repeatedly whack it on his desk whilst shouting and kind of jumping... Almost in a Basil Fawlty/branch/car way! I used to ambush the worst culprit for not doing his hoemwork in the common room in the morning and make him copy mine, just to avoid the bloody noise! He ended up being one of my fav teachers though