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The world cup -- Alan's fun blog! #1 (permalink) Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:03 am   The world cup -- Alan's fun blog!		  
Hi,

Are you football carzy too? This is a shocking story: The world cup and 'Wibledon'
http://www.english-test.net/stories/52/index.html

Any comments?

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The world cup #2 (permalink) Sun Jul 02, 2006 15:23 pm   The world cup		  
Alan wrote:
... and I just quietly glugged away on my own hoping she would come back before I drowned.


Laughing

Just how do you manage to produce this kind of sentence?

Thank you, Alan, for giving us another of your pieces to savour!
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The world cup #3 (permalink) Sun Jul 02, 2006 17:02 pm   The world cup		  
What a story, hehehe... thank you Alan! Very Happy
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The world cup #4 (permalink) Sun Jul 02, 2006 19:54 pm   The world cup		  
Hi Alan

TV sets being harangued at ... (non-) hoovering nurses ... near drownings ... and poor Alan forced to endure a World Cup game with such a dismal end. Crying or Very sad My sympathies. But look at the bright side. Things should be much safer for you now. Very Happy

Please pardon my ignorance, but who the devil is Sven whathisname? Laughing

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World cup #5 (permalink) Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:36 am   World cup		  
Hi Amy,

Funny old thing that I am explaining this but this guy whose full name is Sven Goran Erikson is/was the England football manager. The only reason I know this is because he's very easy to mimic and his persona is often used in comedy programmes where his Swedish accent is copied. I do a passable impression myself and my younger son and I have had lengthy chats on the phone using Svenlike voices. Oh dear, football is taking me over.

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The world cup #6 (permalink) Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:04 pm   The world cup		  
Alan wrote:
One very loudmouthed stall holder was haranguing a small tv set encouraging his team to do this and not do that.


Hi Alan, thank you so much for sharing this story with us. I like your type of humour and style. The sentence above is an example of how you make your readers smile. I think if you post a story like this every day (even it were shorter), it will become very popular after a while. We could also incorporate your stories into our newsletter.

As a matter of fact, you start some type of blog.

What does everybody think?
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"Story blog" #7 (permalink) Tue Jul 04, 2006 15:51 pm   "Story blog"		  
Hi,

I like the idea of having some sort of a story blog very much. Especially if Alan writes stories as his language is so vivid.
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The world cup #8 (permalink) Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:29 am   The world cup		  
Hi Alan
Thanks a lot for your versatile story and the reflectance of proficiency that you showed in English is simply awesome. I liked the story and the style you put it forward.

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