"Organisation is great. Organised crime, remember?" - Guides 2:3
The title has two meanings, each of which will be explored in a Certain Style.
This was a phrase used to refer to the act of doing something in an organised fashion, whether it was good or bad, but especially if it wasn't good. The kind of Organiseds we arranged most often were the classics (organised walkout and organised sleep), but we also created some new varieties, including organised stand and salute (stand and salute the headmaster), organised stay (when the bell goes, just sit there and wait), organised sigh (to demoralise the teacher), organised pack up (get ready to leave the lesson five minutes after it's started), organised disobey (blatant disobedience of anything the teacher says), organised stand 'till challenged (stand on a desk or table until challenged to come down and of course, the DOK inspired organised smell.
The best ones only work when everybody is in it together, which was rarely the case.
The Organiser was changed for year 11 because of complaints about the old one, namely that it wasted rainforests worth of paper, had large expanses of empty space and rapidly degraded into a filthy piece of plastic and paper held together by a ragged (and dangerous, apparently - "the metal binding can come loose and cause minor injuries") piece of metal. Why did they change it? These were all the best features! The sheer acreage of white paper inside was perfect for mindless doodling and other important stuff. The large A4ness of it helped you carry it around with your folder and meant you rarely lost it, as its gravity attracted small objects like cars. The plastic front cover eventually spilt in two, leaving you with yet more paper to draw and scribble on, and the sharp metal binding could be used as a weapon of self defense when braving the rougher areas of school.
The new organiser is small, sleek and designed by an external company, which explains the first two points. It had several thoroughly useful features such as a year planner and hard covers. Unfortunately, the amount of space for doodling had been reduced to almost nothing. The scarcity of scribbling space was so acute at some points in the 11th year, people were forced to use their credits list for buzzword bingo. And as a maths book. And another thing: why doesn't it flop open at your timetable? Say, on the back inside cover? The sharp, rusty, tetanus inducing, spiked, metal, sharp, rusty, evil metal binding has been replaced by... another metal binder. This one doesn't seem to come apart as easily (it seems to be coated with some kind of film), but the new, hard plastic cover causes almost as much damage as the original binder.
With our rapidly improving Paintshop Pro skills, one of 'us' created an evil version of the organiser, which was red on black instead of the more conventional black on red. It certainly scared the hell out of me.