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Tag Archives: speaker
Audience appalled at arrogant speakers (Rousse)
Our joint presentation was at midday. We split the half hour slot equally so that I took the first fifteen minutes and HP the second. I brushed my hair, put on my green corduroy jacket, picked up my data stick, … Continue reading
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Tagged arrogant, audience, dunes, late, podium, presentation, speaker
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Double entendre speaking début (Rousse)
While speaking to a class of disengaged further education students, BD made the most inappropriate double entendre. It was both appalling and hysterical – and I could not hold back my laughter from under a huge paper bed sheet at … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom, double, entendre, further education, speak, speaker
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Val McDermid in hidden class act (Rousse)
Val McDermid presented as an invited guest speaker to my undergraduate class. Unfortunately the students found it difficult to see her, hidden behind the stack of tables and chairs at the back of the classroom. I could have done with … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge, chair, class, college, forensic, hidden, iPhone, keyboard, Mac, model, purse, speaker, student, table, thief, thieves, undergraduate, Val McDermid
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Arnold Schwartzenegger’s boring speech (Rousse)
Two of my Polish colleagues had commandeered my office while I was on long-term sick leave. My desk and other belongings were now all squeezed into a dark corner. I hoped that this was a temporary measure and that I … Continue reading
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Tagged admin, Arnie Schwartzenegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger, basement, boring, campus, children, club, colleague, corner, couple, desk, dull, Easter, famous, floor, foundry, friend, gauge, guest, gym, hill, holiday, Hollywood, kiss, library, married, melt, mould, mountain pass, office, parquet, Polish, presentation, rover boat, school, sick leave, snog, space, speaker, speech, staff, temperature, university, walker, work, worker
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Contempt for media mogul Rupert Murdoch (Rousse)
When Rupert Murdoch was announced as the keynote speaker only three of the newly-appointed staff stayed in the room. The rest marched out in protest, displaying their utter contempt for the media mogul.
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Tagged contempt, keynote, media, modul, protest, Rupert Murdoch, speaker
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Mostly unknowns at the online information relaunch (Rousse)
They tried to bring back the annual international online information meeting, but it just wasn’t the same. A couple of unknown academics from an equally unknown university were supposedly in charge. They didn’t seem to be coping very well. I … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, audience, auditorium, delegate, ginger, hair, hall, Indian, information, keynote, man, meeting, Online, relaunch, speaker, talk, university, unknown, women
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Katie Price takes to the water prior to speaking engagement in Liverpool (Rousse)
Katie Price (aka Jordan) and I lapped the swimming pool together. I wondered whether (her) fake boobs behaved differently from the real thing (mine) when in water, but from my vantage point it was not possible to tell, and I … Continue reading
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Tagged boob, breast, company, conference, engagement, fake, haulage, Jordan, Katie Price, keynote, lap, Liverpool, money, pool, road, speak, speaker, water
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A reluctant speaker at the Melrose Chamber of Commerce (Rousse)
I went into hiding again. I really did not want to give a presentation to the Melrose Chamber of Commerce.
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Tagged chamber, commerce, hide, hiding, Melrose, presentation, reluctant, speaker
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No room at the office (Rousse)
I couldn’t fit into my office because it was overrun by PhD students and the keynote speaker of their forthcoming doctoral colloquium (AB).
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Tagged colloquium, doctoral, keynote, office, overrun, PhD, room, speaker, student
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