Tales from Black Belt

I can honestly say I've had such a good time over the past couple of days that I'm feeling very lucky to do the kind of work that I do.

We're almost at the end of a Black Belt module 2 at Cranfield. Here's a photo of the motley crew. You probably 'had to be there', as they say, but just to give you a couple of hints about what's being going on ...

Last night's after dinner jargon-busting penalty was on the subject of pole dancing. Two guys paid the penalty - one wrote the jargon-written speech, the other had to act it out.  No, no, whatever you're thinking, you really CAN'T imagine!  I promise it was clean, but the whole thing was summed up to me by this little exchange:

• me (on the grounds that I was laughing so much I had tears streaming down my face): "Oh, I'm so glad I'm not wearing mascara!"
• Steve (the 'acting it out' part of the duo) "I'm just glad I'm wearing pants!"

Even the waiter and waitress joined in (although they disappeared in the jargon-busting thing - I think they were worrying what might happen next!) and managed to win a prize in our quiz. This was after the waiter had got over his horror that I had never heard of some footballer who apparently is very famous. I still can't remember his name, but it begins with T and has something to do with 'va va voom' ..???

And finally .. Bill Quirke now has a new name. My table decided they wanted to name our quiz team in his honour.  Except that when they were trying to remember the name of this esteemed man, they got it a bit wrong, and came up with ... Greg Burke. Which he now shall forever be to everyone in this group. (Sorry Bill!)

Sue

Comments

[Alex Manchester]

That footballer will be Thierry Henry, Arsenal's leading goal scorer of all time and one of the most gifted players you'll ever see.

He did have a habit of not showing up to big games, though, 2005 Champions League final excepted (but our goalie dropped a clanger then and ruined it anyway).

Black Belt sounds like a riot!