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Hi Michael!
| Quote: | | pickeled cucumbers and salty fish is the right medicine for the day after! |
brine… true brine, with no vinegar...
Strong brine, in which cucumbers were pickled. It's a very old recipe.
Or rich chicken broth 
But...
I know recipes against hangover… but I don’t know the strong medicine or chemical solutions against spam robots, but just to remove posts. Day by day...
In my view, it’s not practically efficient (or even possible) to ban all (registered) spamers by their IP-addresses, because (1) they can use proxy and/or change locations, (2) in some cases, to ban 'criminals’, moderators have no other ways, but to ban the entire range of IP-addresses (which could prevent access to the Forum for other, quite innocent, people.
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| Sun Jun 25, 2006 13:08 pm Thanks for your kindness :-) |
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Hi Dark magician! Nice to see you!
Hi Michael!
Now I’m fine, thank you.
Not fell of a horse or high-heeled shoes . Not twisted my leg while dancing. Not in a prison (as it seems - or, at least, in a prison cell for 'the upper class' – with quite fast broadband Internet  )
And by now even having a bit of hazy recollection of my ESOL exams which are in three days
No, the Ball I've been this time took place in London Metropolitan University, London North campus complex
But… Champaign, tequila, …, and various surprised cocktails are a really high-risky mixture – even in academic environment
P.S. Michael, my congratulations to you and your soccer team on the sure victory. Das ist fantastisch! Well done!
See you,
Tamara
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| Mon Jun 26, 2006 22:51 pm Starting the countdown? |
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Hi Michael!
| Quote: | | I hope you had a pleasant sunday afternoon! |
Not bad, not bad… thank you
| Quote: | | Are you busy to learn and counting the last days? |
…the last hours… the last sighs… before to breath my last…
Frankly, yes, I’m busy. And nervous (not about my English itself, but mainly about the time limit which is too pressing for my unhealthy perfectionism ).
And having already got appointment slips according to which the day after tomorrow I’ll have TRINITY Reading examination at 10-11 a.m. and Writing one – at the same room at 11.a.m.-12.40 p.m. Almost with no break, in fact...
| Quote: | | Here it was as hot and sticky… |
Perhaps, you’ve taken away our previous warm weather… today is dull and rather cold.
My dog doesn’t like thunderstorms at all, but as I’m not a dog and in my next incarnation am going to be a black cat I like discharging the hot and oppressive weather with loud and lightning
| Quote: | | I slowly start crossing my fingers. |
Thank you, Michael.
Don't also forget to say me with care 'Break your neck and leg' 
And. of course, swear me from the heart during the time, please!
See you
Tamara
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| Wed Jun 28, 2006 17:57 pm First day of exam |
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Hi Tamara!
How did your first exam day go? Havew you sweated as much?
I must say it didn?t sweat, as I couldn?t work with crossed fingers. Thank you for that pleasant day!
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| Wed Jun 28, 2006 19:54 pm First day of exam |
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Hi!
Seem to have come back rather WITH shield than ON it. But you nether know...
Reading test was fairly easy and I've managed to finish it 15 minutes before the time is over.
And now I discover just a few my mistakes /wrong answers - among 40 small (close test) questions on eight (page-size) test texts from different area of everyday life.
(One was 'How does your garden grow' - a clear advice on growing plants )
In particular, some words I didn’t know yet - by today's 10 a.m.
For example, timber. The tricky text about a strong construction tempted me to think that 'timber' should be metal rather than wooden. Now I know more
Writing was more difficult for me (as it includes three very different tasks to be done for 100 min but I am not the best Time Manager to schedule myself…)
But this time as I had properly broken neck, legs and brain, I was much more lucky with exam tasks
The first was from computer context (proposal for a new project), the third was very similar to my recent exercise (informal letter to a relative to asks for advice in your difficult situation. I always complain to my non-existent uncle Fred )
But the second… I left it for dessert and, of course, didn’t manage complete to schedule. When ‘5 minutes left’ warning was given, I found myself digging in details of comparison of American and Japanese models of People Management at a large company Not to mention that management of any sort is not my horse at all
So, I was forced to cut short my investigation and concluded the essay – suddenly Never, never, never… this, the best among others, world will gets to know my very important opinion on the topic.
And, of course, as usual, I had no time to check up my hasty writing - to place missing articles, to remove redundant ones and to correct all those damn 'staff are', 'money is',
'call to [-THE-] police', etc.
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Well... To sum it all up : generally, I hope I’ve done it. Cleared the today's bar.
P.S. Sorry for such a long post, I just need to breathe out.
Thanks a lot for your attention
Tamara
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| Wed Jun 28, 2006 21:47 pm First day of exam |
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In particular, some words I didn’t know yet - by today's 10 a.m.
For example, timber. The tricky text about a strong construction tempted me to think that 'timber' should be metal rather than wooden. Now I know more |
Hey Tamara, here you can see how important it might be to read comics! The word timber would have reminded me to one episode of `Lucky Luke? hunting the awful ?Daltons? he visited Canada, here particularly a camp of wood-cutter (lumberjacks) where the Daltons tried to cut trees and always when the lumberjacks cried "timbeeeer!!!" one tree fell, of course straight on one of the Daltons. I think I would have remebered that when I had heard timber. But leaving the kidding page, I?m sure that I probably with some other of your tasks would have failed!
| Tamara wrote: | Well... To sum it all up : generally, I hope I’ve done it. Cleared the today's bar.
P.S. Sorry for such a long post, I just need to breathe out.
Thanks for your attention
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I think you have had an exciting day and it is always good to speak about that. Think about, we are your friends! So you can tell about what you want and as much as you want. I?m also sure that you?ve made it.
Good luck tomorrow
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| Hi! I am Mirka from Slovakia | I'm from Chandigarh Punjab |
Your post "I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!"is getting vast and vast 
...ok may sometime. 
