Böcker av Robin Bright

Another pot pourri of articles and humor from the stove of Robin Bright. Some of the more serious articles to address the predicament of native English language speakers' teaching overseas can be found in the pages of Pilgrims' Humanizing Language Teaching online journal, https://www.hltmag.co.uk/ , and there's lots of humorous material for those familiar with a story that, so far, has taken in three continents.

In Arabic, the word ¿¿¿¿ for the indispensably precious stuff of life that is water is, ¿Mayiy.¿ It¿s a homonym, `May ..?` As everyone is a slave to water, so the teacher is perceived not as a water bearer quenching the thirst for knowledge, but as a type of the figure of Jesus, who needs to be given vinegar, while he`s being crucified in the classroom in order to keep him awake; up on his feet during the torture of sleep deprivation: 'May I talk to you teacher?' Resurrected and filled full of vinegar by the summoning spell, the teacher¿s tormented existence is prolonged yet one more sunset until another dawn: 'Eat and drink until the black line can be fully distinguished by you from the white line due to dawn's redness.¿ Koran, Surah 2, Al Baqara ('The Cow'), 187. Many of the articles collected here are to be found in Humanizing Language Teaching online http://www.hltmag.co.uk

A History Of Manchester United In Short Easy To Digest Pieces Written For Bread And Butter Football (breadandbutterfootball.com) and North America`s National Soccer Coaches Association of (NSCAA) Soccer Journal. Thanks to Ash Davidson of Bread and Butter Football, an online journal, and Jay Martin (ed.) of the NSCAA`s Soccer Journal in which `Mangnall, Busby, Docherty And Ferguson, Managing Triumph From Disaster`, and `Alex Ferguson`s Mistake` first appeared.

Sarah gets naked. She takes off bra and pants at last. Before that she was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Her hair is elaborately coiffured for a collegiate girl and she has to unpin a few layers of styled hair atop her head. It`s longish and blonde and now falling about her shoulders in the usual way of California sunshine blondes supposedly unaware of how gorgeous they are. She wears socks and sandals rather than stockings and shoes. Her toes are painted we notice before she removes her sandals. She has some unostentatious jewelry; earrings, rings of indeterminate meaning, a pendant on a chain about her neck, a watch with a gold face and a blue leather strap that might be denim and coordinated with the blue of her jeans. The camera doesn`t overly dwell on her nudity but she`s clearly nude from behind and her breasts aren`t hidden from view although the viewer is rather enticed than treated. There`s atmospheric music that suggests suspense. Something horrific is about to occur. Sarah is the focus of some dreadful horror that`s to transpire and we feel protective towards her despite the truth that there`s nothing the audience can do to help her escape.

Onan on with Snow White: the never ending story. Fact and Fiction examines the blizzard, and wonders if they'll get the drift by the fourth storey. Can the church recover from its shriveling members? That '77 TV run, Logan's Run, about a killer who wasn't born in Logan airport's toilet, Boston, Massachusetts. Just run that by us again. Cigs cigs cigs, 'the number of a man is the number of the beast' (Rev: 13. 8), and no one may buy if he doesn't have the dragon's smoke, 'Surely, this was the snuff, God?' Fact and Fiction looks at soccer and examines the behavioralist perspective that the ball is a fertilizing sperm and the net is a girl, and rejects it for the more exciting theory that the balls are the girls' and the nets at either end are the ball snorting nostrils of the beast of Revelation. In the novel The Number Of The Beast by US' science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein (1980), two couples quarrel in the multiverse, where all possible worlds including those in fiction exist, and the enemy is 'the beast', a hermaphrodite. Bred as a single male brained creature wearing each other's clothes in TV transvestism for war, Fact and Fiction can understand why the TV's upset.

If Demi has a semi in Beckham, is it a manifestation of Ialdabaoth, the devil-worshiping Mason's demi-urge? First Foot doesn't mind Tolkien Turkey, and asks the question: was Traci Lords of the Rings? It's 12" to the Foot as a rule, and despite Jennifer Aniston's wearing a tie for the cover of January 2009's GQ, it's still not Ted. Looking with retro spectacles at Spice Girls, First Foot said, 'Look at the brains on that!' God goes down like a lead balloon with Led Zeppelin, and Pam Anderson is voted by women as 'The 20th Century's A Bit O' Me'. It's Rock `n` Roll, and First III Foot only stones adulterers it doesn't like.What's Rob Lowe doing on a plane with the 9/11 terrorists, apart from researching his role as Middle Number Two in Goldmember (2002)? All this and more as the Foot's shoe-horned in as it boots up. Why's a plum voiced Englishman hired as a GB proper gander, and the director has 'chippy' Miley Cyrus put in a cage, if 'Can't Be Tamed' (2010) isn't aimed by the KGB? Who ate Madeleine McCann? First III Foot rubber necks with the rest to see if Jo Guest could always see her friends going in and out all the time from where her head was at in the 1970s - and behind ...

Seeing how far the race will go in Death Race 2000 (1975), or examining trannies and TVs to hear what isn't worth seeing, First Foot is right there. Looking at our 'History and Moral Philosophy' course notes, after a lecture by Lieutenant Colonel Jean V. Dubois (Retired) of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959), First Foot observes God's prohibitions, and has something else revealing to contribute, 'Thou shalt have no false guards before me.' Is the Hungarian word, 'élelmiszer', which means 'supermarket', suggesting that Heinlein's long-lived almost immortal, because rejuvenated periodically character, Lazarus Long (L.L.), a miser? Would you rather have Katherine Ross as a Stepford wife or Nicole Kidman? First Foot is there to help judge Ira levin. As the Starship Troopers drop ever closer to Klendathu, it's heads up with First Foot II.

Ironing the bugs out of Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959), or wondering if Nova has nuts of her own in Planet Of The Apes (1968), First Foot has been there. If it's trying to understand how it is that Peter Parker has enough sense to be seeing Kirsten Dunst, but wants to climb walls like a spider, or whether the black squid headed Bunraku puppeteers in the Kate Bush video for her single release, 'Hammer Horror' (1978), are still invisibly manipulating her, First Foot has something more revealing to contribute. The damned kids are still going cuckoo in Midwich, according to John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), while Harley Quinn is still persuading everyone that life is worth living to the full with Suicide Squad (2016), and Poe tries to keep a straight face as the blade dips ever lower towards his abs in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), so leaving First Foot with but a leg to stand on when it comes to having more of an opinion than is meat to the eye.

Splurt! III is a further article splurge on pop culture for those who want to see it go through the roof; land on the moon, and exit the solar system. Spurt! III examines the legitimacy of Doctor Who's calls for assistants in the absence of full frontal nudity. Does Buffy The Vampire Slayer represent Sarah Michelle Gellar's stake in women? Is SMG a legitimate LGBT offshoot? Splurt! III looks up Paris' skirt as she's getting out of a car with Britney, while listening to 'Stars Are Blind', and wonders how it is that the knickers on the back seat are still visible. It's all gone a bit too far, and it's going to go a lot further still.