slothy

, who ironically understood Hungarian so

the transvestite, half-Maori street-trader squeezing

although it sounded Greek to

"Why you giggling, Soloway?" said

the orang-utan's bald-patch, causing Lauria

Helene :lol: , with due respect, I do find it very difficult to understand why you suggested a non-natural system to teach beginners :lol:. Surely, the idea is to allow them to appreciate hand evaluation and contract setting (á la Hrothgar's post) without introducing bidding abstractions which will undoubtedly confuse them and distract them from the bread-and-butter concepts. "Let them bid what they got in their hand" is a motto i think worth considering :D Teaching them an artificial system is like teaching football (soccer for you guys over the Pond) and asking them to dribble a rugby ball. :huh: (quite fun as it happens) The EBU [Englsih Bridge Union] , for all its failings , has IMHO one of the best thought-out and well-documented systems for teaching (having received substantial amounts of funding to develop it and me personally done some coding for it so i have managed to see how well-constructed it is) in its 'Bridge For All' dossier, specifically aimed at people who are beginners. May i suggest you go to the bridge site and see if worth following up Good luck with your teaching!

Congratulations Ben on your jaundiced appointment!!!! Does this mean that you won't have time to respond to EVERY single thread put in the FORUM :huh: May your hair remain its current color for as long as possible (which i hope is not purple).... Hee hee, Free. Get to the back of the QUEUE!!!! :D :D I will do my best to conjure up every conceivable reason to ask a question, whether it related to bridge or not...and see jhow competent he is :lol: :lol:

from the top flight of

Marc's Den. Mark shuffles uncomfortably

"I'm overly depressed too" said

"42 ways makeable and OFF"

,like a dog breathing heavily,

miraculously regaining his speech he

criss-cross squeezes in the play

the SuperBowl on CBS, desperately

"i'm afred so" said Uday...

the mute orang-utan sat opposite

"an 'N', 'A','M' and...

the giraffe's question about Muideberg

is not relevant to this

the giraffe kibbitzing my p

i miscounted the hearts, i

, FREEvilously fingering my abacus....suddenly (see what i mean by parody??)

It was a dark, FROSTY...

I thought it time that we had a serious bridge thread on this Forum!! with no desire to burn out the BBO server and strangle the band-width :) i have seen similar threads in other forums and they have been quite funny & entertaining. SO will try to duplicate them here... it does require audience participation and a slight imagination, so DONT disappoint me :D The idea is as follows, WITH some rules one has to adhere to!! 1) From the first post onwards, EVERY POST must have EXACTLY 5 (FIVE) words, no more, no less and need not be complete sentences. 2) EVERY post must follow on from, and make sense with, the previous one. 3) Try to keep it bridge-related.... 4) IF POSSIBLE, EVERY THIRD (yes every third lexica dear :) ) post contains a REFERENCE to an existing BBO FORUM nik or BBO player nik or popular bridge term ( you can see if your turn to make a reference to one by looking at the third previous!!). If not sure dont bother or do it anyway what the heck ;) (the nik references can be a parody of a name or incuded over 2 words.... so for example slothy can be included as "...out of sloth yesterday. I...." Please highlight the reference in red so we can check :( I will start the story in the next post.... ENJOY! PS Be aware that whilst you are posting someone else could have posted :))) Alas AS I SOON discovered you may have to edit your posts as other intermittent posts, made whilst you were posting yours, render your post totally meaningless :) STRATEGY: Try and 'SET UP' the one who has to post the reference...