The Reform School Strap and the UZI Paddle

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Several years ago R Humphries purchased a Reform School Strap from a lady who is a specialist purveyor of such collectables.

According to the literature that accompanied this fine specimen a tough disciplinarian named Joshua Plunkett first introduced the Reform School Strap to the Alabama State Reformatory in the late nineteenth century. The reform school housed the life-hardened daughters of drunken dockers and itinerant workers. Plunkett was convinced that the inmates of the reformatory were victims of their unfortunate circumstances and embarked upon an enlightened program to reform them. On Sundays the young women were taken from their cells and brought to the prison chapel. One by one they were manacled over a flogging horse and given thirteen strokes of the strap while the prison chaplain prayed for their souls and salvation. Later, the legendary strap was introduced into reform schools stretching along the southern United States from Florida to Texas and has helped numerous young women in their pursuit of reform.

The tail of this particular strap is twenty-four inches long and three-inches wide. It has a one-foot long handle and it is beautifully cut from calf leather. It is designed for swift application and Plunkett was onto something when he decided to manacle down his reformatory gals. My Beloved Jojo reports that she feels that if she is not secured over a sturdy piece of furniture the heft and weight of this remarkable instrument would lift her clean out of her shoes and propel her across the room.

The inmates of the Woody Back to School unit were not best pleased when Mr Humphries introduces the legendary strap into the multifarious artillery that he uses to warm their poor beleaguered bums.

Unlike his predecessor Ms Lawton who was strictly old-school and only ever used the cane (nothing wrong with that) Mr Humphries has a wide range of instruments available to liven up the naked nates of the errant inmates.

Another notable collectable is the UZI paddle. This paddle has an interesting provenance and was acquired at considerable expense from a private collector who had fallen on hard times.

The rectangular shaped leather paddle with the letters Uzi stenciled in an ornate scroll in the center of the blade was first commissioned by an American Senator for use on his persistently errant twin daughters. It is made from two layers of the finest Texan boot sole leather and gracefully curved, beveled and grooved with a stiffening overlay on the handle. The blade measures 3-inches wide by 14-inches long and is designed to strike across both buttocks simultaneously.

When the twins had moved away to college they had been invited to join the prestigious Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. However, their unruly behavior had resulted in them being quickly expelled. In a fit of pique they founded a renegade sorority, Upsilon Zeta Iota.

The twins requisitioned their fathers paddle to assist during initiation ceremonies and in maintaining discipline amongst the Uzi’s, as the outlaw sorority sisters became known on campus.

Apparently, maintaining discipline was a full-time business for the twins. The collector provided me with a ledger that had come with the paddle, documenting the disciplinary records of the Sorority Sisters. There were several Uzi’s who were disciplined so often that they would have made the inmates of the Woody Back to School unit proud.

The Dean of the college was unimpressed with the new sorority and confiscated the Uzi paddle. Its last usage on the campus was the very public thrashing of the twins, delivered on the steps of the ZTA sorority house. To the embarrassment of the twins the Dean had informed the local press and the thrashing made front-page news, first locally and then nationally. Syndicated newspapers published photographs of the twins, stooped over, their skirts turned back, while a muscular looking man in a tracksuit larruped their behinds.

The public thrashing caused considerable embarrassment to the Senator. He felt obliged to go on prime time television to inform anyone who was interested that once they returned home from college that the twins would be spending some quality time down in the Woodshed.

My Beloved Jojo who has strong opinions in such matters considers it the height of poor etiquette for Senator’s to be bandying about their personal business on prime time TV.

In my Woody stories the Senator, was considering lobbying congress to introduce anti-Ladette laws in the United States. He visits the Woody Back to School unit on a fact finding mission and generously bequeaths the Uzi paddle to the facility, where he considers it will be put to good use.

Deborah Morton is the first inmate unfortunate enough to be introduced to the UZI paddle. In the aftermath when she is lying across her best chum Rosemary Bookers lap having her scalding bum anointed with mystical balms the state of her arse illicits considerable interest. Her chums Jojo and Nixdown are amused that the etched paddle face has left what appear to be ancient hieroglyphics on her rear end. When they finally decipher the letters they josh her about her new UZI tattoo. At first she is not amused but when her grubby, Lady Derby Huntington, pitches up and asks about the marks on Deborah’s rear end, Debs ruefully predicts that, “They are my new Uzi tattoo, they will soon be all the rage.”

Never a truer word said in jest. Very shortly the poor beleaguered bums of the inmates regularly find themselves head down, arse up across Mr Humphries lap as he generously tattoo’s their bums with the UZI paddle … Bottoms Up! … R.

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