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Sheikh Inal Ovar

Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:56 am Post subject: A Portrait of the Tefler as an Old Man |
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To what type of pasture are TEFLers put out to graze?
Will their last years find them reclining like a champion in his oats filled paddock ... or will old age find them clinging to a tatty straw 'kiss me quick' hat, the last reminder of their sartorial heydey when they used to plod up and down Blackpool sands ...
How do you think TEFLers end up in old age? |
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dmb

Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: |
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How do you think TEFLers end up in old age? |
miserable and bitter in the ME or liver has packed in and old age is never reached..... of course that doesn't refer to the fine members of this forum. |
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Baba Alex

Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:32 am Post subject: |
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I drink a cup of virgin's blood every morning, that should keep me young for the rest of my life. That's why I get away with telling people I'm only 28. |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar

Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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How do you think TEFLers end up in old age? |
miserable and bitter in the ME ... |
According to "The Seven Stages of TEFLing" ... that is only number five ... |
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dmb

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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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What are 6 and 7? |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar

Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: |
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Stage 6
Suffocating in the Gulf, TEFLer throws himself over the edge ...
Stage 7
Outwardly similar to idyllic Stage 1 in that TEFLer is found sipping coffee at a cafe table in the square of a picturesque town ...
But the comatose eyes with which he stares at all before him tell quite a different story ...
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molly farquharson
Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 839 Location: istanbul
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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i'm glad i'm a woman and not a man, as my future as an old person is clearly much better than what you look forward to sheikh |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar

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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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I'm bailing out after stage 5 ... and will be off to see the wizard to get patched up ...
It should be remembered that stage 6 and 7 are based in imaginative fancy as the creator of the "Seven Stages of TEFL" was unable to obtain a rational, coherent response from any of the stage 6 and 7 TEFLers interviewed ...
Still, even their lot is a happier one than the TEFLer whose epitaph reads:
'Here lied the Vicar over the unmourned death of TEFLer Jones' |
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dmb

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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Suffocating in the Gulf, TEFLer throws himself over the edge ... |
Lucky this is your last year Thrifty  |
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thrifty
Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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It will have to be as I am getting fatter, lazier, more alcoholic and bitter as every day goes by. Gulf TEFLers-Jesus Christ. Chip van here I come. |
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dmb

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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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I am getting fatter, lazier, more alcoholic and bitter as every day goes by |
aka middle age. It's probably not restricted to EFL. |
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thrifty
Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Nice one dmb. The only thing besides the drink and money that was keeping me going was the thought that when I am in mobile catering, I won`t be so fat, bitter, alcoholic and lazy.
Best go and get another brew on the go. |
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dmb

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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Do you think it is possible to be a lazy mobile caterer? It doesn't seem to collocate. |
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thrifty
Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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If you get a Kurd in to do the work, it is. |
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justme

Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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But that would give you even more time to be fat, bitter, alcoholic and lazy.
Unless the Kurd had one of those funny Tourette's-like tics. Then at least you would be laughing your way to the bank with all the sweet sweet money he was earning for you... |
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