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[quote user="KatieKopyKat"]Yeah Yeah two Chris B bs  thats a sock puppet if ever I saw one!!  You DLUNK Tinks?[/quote]

No haven't been to Shopi!

[Miki]

We still have nightly fosts in Belgium. And you?

Firstly I stand uncorrected but there you go, I am not one of your

pupils but a student of using a bit of old fashioned savvy. I am not

going to argue the toss about the many guises of arguably and guess

"......firstly, the use of 'arguably' (as I keep telling my students) suggests

that the writer or speaker knows that the point is contentious but is

offering a personal opinion based on the available evidence, accepting

(not excepting) other possibilities"

Sorry that to me,  is tosh, rather than explain that all again

to the next years class, give your pupils a day off to get pi****d, it

will come in more useful later in life [<:o)] They will learn

themselves that arguably and guess can have more meanings than just the one you wish to emphasise as the sole meaning.

Quelle horreur Tag, here you are, still lecturing that this thread is of

little value, are you or perhaps I, missing something in that ? Will we still

see you through the long dark spring days, still insisting that this

should have been pulled ? or will you continue to post until we all

agree and go home to think again!

As was said, I also don't remember

any threads like this ever being tugged before ?

As for the drinking thingy, I used to play soccer in Belgium, many

moons ago now, often in my favourite town, Liège (a Walloon at heart) a welcome few glasses of cold

Jupiler went down well after the game, until it was time to go on the

trappiste bières. Don't remember much after

that........................sorry !

[Tag]

Who did you play for?

Then you will have spent many a happy hour in Le Carré which is where my beloved Uni students are usually to be found except around exam times. They are currently just recovering from their last booze fest up at Sart Tilman and beginning to pester me with pre-exam questions such as "Will we have to discuss Intelligent Design or the Scientific Method' or ' What about the Caelocanth as a topic?'.

They are budding scientists and engineers, doctors and journalists whose intelligence often frightens me. One thing they have to do is to present cases, argue and discuss in English, so you can see why they need nuanced terms.

Anyway, I'm finishing in a few weeks so it is almost academic. Fancied working in La Rochelle, Barcelona or Lisbon for a few months each year.

(Now this message really is off thread!)

[Miki]

(Now this message really is off thread!)

Now you're getting the hang of it Tag [;)]

Sart Tilman, there's a blast from the past. A little drive from the

centre though. We were involved some time ago, with a chap called

René-Pierre Heynen who sadly though long illness, took his own life. He

was the founder and organiser of a semi pro tournement every Pentecote,

called the Euroman, based for many years at the Uni there and extremely

popular it was too, Steve Heighway (of Liverpool fame) won the player

of the tournament when playing for Skelmersdale there. Trouble was,

some matches were played on red clay

and no one ever really fancied playing on that stuff !

I once met a chap in Liège in 1977, who was and still is a sports

journalist with La Meuse and is also with Belgian TV as a "stato", who

now we feel, is one of our best friends.

A favorite drinking hole for me then was Le Wembley, now shut I believe

(not far from Gare du Guillemans (sp) and a bar on the corner opposite

the station and a hotel called L'Univers ? plus Bar Le Kleyer,  up on the hill,

near the sports ground and behind the same station. In town, le

Cafetaria was always popular. Where is Le Carré ?

Just returned from near Barca, most of the Brits we met in Sitges were working in Barcelona.