tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post3822776742422071062..comments2023-10-31T08:52:55.991-03:00Comments on Notes from the TEFL Graveyard: THE LAND OF THAT’LL DOM C Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09915316267943374795noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-90326595961533163782011-04-07T14:37:29.839-03:002011-04-07T14:37:29.839-03:00Sure thing, SBM, I'm not easily scared. My ema...Sure thing, SBM, I'm not easily scared. My email is in my profile thingy.M C Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09915316267943374795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-47437362222278653832011-04-07T14:26:06.805-03:002011-04-07T14:26:06.805-03:00I dont want to scare you or anything but would I b...I dont want to scare you or anything but would I be able to email you? I have a couple of questions about Sao Paulo...which are not about and all boys choir.<br /><br />Saludos from Buenos Aires, <br /><br />The BrewmanWell-lighted Shadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123755129522724579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-6154078143474474532011-03-31T12:44:36.297-03:002011-03-31T12:44:36.297-03:00Boyo, you're in - please attend Rua Aparecida,...Boyo, you're in - please attend Rua Aparecida, 568, Sorocaba on Wednesday at 8pm in regulation bermuda shorts, flip flops and counterfeit football shirt of your choice, and with a song in your heart. <br /><br />And if you could bring some decent jokes along for good measure...M C Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09915316267943374795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-27001121032737946642011-03-31T12:04:00.709-03:002011-03-31T12:04:00.709-03:00I'm a baritone!
"start [songs] impressiv...I'm a baritone!<br /><br />"start [songs] impressively, start to wobble, and by the end have sometimes completely come apart" <br /><br />The Welsh rugby squad in a nutshell.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-72101561112770245132011-03-22T03:23:51.027-03:002011-03-22T03:23:51.027-03:00MC, the pleasure is all mine - I'll try to get...MC, the pleasure is all mine - I'll try to get Boyo over here if I can. Tenors <i>do</i> seem to be the problem, don't they (and being one myself I don't say this lightly). My Englishman presence seems to have provoked our most logorrhoea-prone armchair-Carruso, and he now brings beautiful <i>al niente</i> endings to abrupt halts with exclamations of "<i>Sank you very much!</i>" instead of the usual farmyard noises in his thick Transylvanian accent.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-83712430481642403832011-03-21T21:15:50.864-03:002011-03-21T21:15:50.864-03:00Ermintrude Fishlifter, may I compliment you on you...Ermintrude Fishlifter, may I compliment you on your fine name, and extend a warm welcome to you? Your tenor's antics sound depressingly familiar - our second tenor rabble have been known to exchange some choice language between songs as the accusations fly about who exactly it is that is singing wrongly. Have they no culture?M C Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09915316267943374795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-73676985034476181352011-03-21T20:07:03.089-03:002011-03-21T20:07:03.089-03:00Curse this modern typwriting machine!! my name is ...Curse this modern typwriting machine!! my name is Ermintrude Fishlifter and not MassmoErmintrude Fishlifterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220148578525721868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-87944901485146121602011-03-21T19:56:50.212-03:002011-03-21T19:56:50.212-03:00I will never forget coming to the end of a rousing...I will never forget coming to the end of a rousing perfomance of "Oh wappy dayee" and hearing one of the tenors distinctly saying "so I said to him I said ..." This was France, so I can only assume that choir singing is not taken particularly seriously in many countries ... Mr Fishlifter (choir master) is at his wits end in any case.Ermintrude Fishlifterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220148578525721868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-50398975792371779492011-03-21T10:28:49.634-03:002011-03-21T10:28:49.634-03:00Thanks again for stopping by, Gadj - I'm begin...Thanks again for stopping by, Gadj - I'm beginning to realise you are my one reader.<br /><br />It's nice to know I'm not the only one and this is not the only country. Why this should be is an altogether more complex issue.M C Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09915316267943374795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-57991444589668740382011-03-21T02:41:35.247-03:002011-03-21T02:41:35.247-03:00:-) The choir I sing in has a similar "that&#...:-) The choir I sing in has a similar "that'll do" problem, in our case resulting from the fact that few people are ever very far away from peasent origins and a "if the family pig can't actually escape from the spare bedroom then so what if the house looks like it's about to fall down" attitude. The University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors are clearly some soviet-inspired elite <i>shamateur</i> fighting unit, and are surely cheating. I once knew a Ecuadorian call Klever who struggled to live up to his name; I also remember several Brazilians called Hobson and Jobson, etc.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.com