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dmb
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| So Biff, which joke did you tell? |
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biffinbridge
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: erm.... |
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Not the hickery ,dickery,dock one.
The one about the Kleenex and the three wipes to make them bigger....
Guilty as charged I'm afraid.
Maybe I should tell Bing's one about Zig and Zag or the one about the bloke in the optician's with a shoe box under his arm. |
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SueH
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Apologies for butting in, but Biff, are you still in Pompey? I'm working at the Foyer, Edinburgh Rd, today (Mon) until 22.30 so do pop in and say hello.
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe I should tell Bing's one about Zig and Zag or the one about the bloke in the optician's with a shoe box under his arm. |
NOOOOO! however as was said before know your students well.
SueH, you are just asking for trouble  |
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SueH
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| dmb wrote: |
| [SueH, you are just asking for trouble |
Yeah, but I didn't know any of those jokes! Besides, anybody who swaps Libya for Portsmouth deserves some sympathetic company:-) |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| anybody who swaps Libya for Portsmouth deserves some sympathetic company:-) |
I agree(that's why I pretended to remember the punchlines to those jokes. I always forget the punchlines.) |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I always forget the punchlines |
When in doubt, just use:
"and that's when my wife walked in!"
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"well, the horse didn't find it so funny"
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"no, doctor. I said VENUS" |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Guy, you haven't heard Biff's jokes |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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 no I haven't. I am always so out of the loop.
Somebody, please make me laugh! |
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Perpetual Traveller
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:01 am Post subject: |
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This thread reminded me of a story that my raft guide instructor told. He came bounding up to a new group of punters and told a joke, complete with actions, about a certain religious figure (don't want to get into trouble). No one laughed so he decided just to continue as normal, 'Hi I'm Jon, I'll be your raft guide today'...'Good morning, we're the young christians of Scotland'... D'oh!
He told us this as a case in point for 'ALWAYS KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE'
Just thought I'd share it, cracks me up to this day picturing it.
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Will.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Who sings in the shower?
anecdotes without the punchline...left to their imagination.
75 words on physical gestures and behaviour...demonstrate!
Sod the rules! Autonomy in your own classroom means it becomes a part/an extension of your cultur and that is part and parcel of theaching the language as a native would use it early exposure,(in the corect sense of the word!!!) leads to earlier understanding and less chance of really being offended by some of the oafs we have in our midst at a future date. This is learning, and there should be a suspension of disbelief in such cases. Once it is explained to your students that they can "get away" with this in your class it is amnazing the response and the creative input it can generate.
you know what they say about convent girls and nerds. |
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