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[Will.]

Ok now, there is one stereotype we have not yet mentioned
the radical vegetarian MOD DELETED smoking, drinking, available and unsatisfied and seriously annoyed about the attention they are not geting from the opposite sex and why but I am not going to fall into that trap that our dear Biff has set or we will have another 17 pager on our hands and fluff and fur flying everywhere.
no seriously. you all met this person.

a patronising G.I.T who has seen a year or two in the town/city you arrive in and sets themself up as the sage of the sc hool with all the info at theio disposal but only available for comment in the bar after a beer or two and sage is in session...with colleagues. Someone who without the presence of those newbies would be inconsequentially unnoticeable, whose inportance daily wanes and evaporates as the growing confidence of the newbies waxes and one who, eventually, is left behind at the bar of old memories as the newbies move on and who awaits the coming of the next batch of fresh meat.

[merlin]

I got one - the Mystery Man

You know him - the guy who seems to know all the old hands at your school but you have no idea who he is. He comes in to take over your advanced class because you've been given a new beginners one. He doesn't spend much time in the teachers' room but just comes in, teaches his class, then leaves. If he has a break between two classes he spends it in constructive lesson preparation and contributes little or nothing to staffroom discussions, although he may roll his eyes or sigh as you show a newbie "the ropes" or perhaps he makes an excuse to leave the room as you exchange your newest hop-up-and-down language learning game.

You thought you knew every native speaker in the city but you've never met him before. Who is he?