Iraq debate

[Donald Renouf]

Is there to be a dinner after the debate on Thursday?

[peter]

No, but there will be a free party in the Byre after the debate, with a live band, and drinks promos, so it should be a great night.

Peter

[Sophs]

i have received two society emails saying the time of the iraq debate tomorrow is at 7pm, yet the posters around town claim it's at 8pm. can someone please tell me which is correct?

[Yeats]

The debate starts at 8pm although you are welcome to join the society beforehand at 7pm in the Byre Theatre Bar.

[Barry Joss]

"Welcome to join the society"? Are not we all members already? Is not this a little exclusionist? Who says the active debates bods see themselves as the sum and the whole? Nonsense I say!

[Yeats]

Sorry Barry I was very tired when I wrote that. I should have said. "You are welcome to join the board, some board member's friends, some hangers on and some other randoms...."

Apologies.

[Tom Plant]

Yet undeniably charming. I open the prestigious University of St Andrews Debating Society's thread entitled 'Iraq Debate,' hoping to engage in rapier-witted dialogue about the situation in the Middle East, and find instead an enquiry about the post-debate prandials.

I do love St Andrews. Wish I could have joined you, if not for the debate, then at least for the dinner. Don't get the chance to wear evening dress very often out here, you know.

Ganbatte kudasai, and well done Bean

Tom

[Tom Plant]

My e-mail address is tom@tomplant.co.uk, should anyone wish to contact me.

[John Stewart]

"rapier-witted dialogue".

When was the last time that was seen in LPH?

Maybe it's time to send a search party...

[David Bean]

Thanks, Tom! I'll drop you an email some time - good to hear from you

BTW, an interesting development occurred at the Magistrands Debate: the motion (Prop: Alex S; Opp: John Stewart) that "This House Would Have Attacked Iraq After All" was soundly carried! I don't have the official figures, and there weren't all that many people there, but after five-minute speeches before and against, it was a fairly conclusive margin in favour.

[Eliot Wilson]

Aaargh! Tom, you're still visiting the Sinner! Get out and save yourself. As for evening dress, I'm sure you've found a Nipponese equivalent; shall we see you one day in LPH in a dress kimono?

(You've done it naked, after all, old man.)

[Barry Joss]

Thank you, Mr. Wilson, you have abruptly and, I might say, distressingly revived a memory I had hoped to be able to bury forever.

[Eliot Wilson]

The human mind, Mr. Joss, cannot suppress every horror to which it is subjected. Sooner or later, recall will bubble up from the depths of the brain and give one a nasty scare.

[Barry Joss]

Rather as Mr Murray is wont to do. Though obviously not from the depths of my brain, more from the depths of a pint of lager tops.

Would that he were a mere figment of my imagination - the solution would be that bit simpler.

[Tom Plant]

The nights do get a little lonely while m'lass is away in America, and after a light hors d'oeuvre of pornography the Sinner makes for a hearty repast. albeit mostly comprising empty calories.

I was wearing a gown, if you recall, so I did not strictly qualify as 'naked.' I had to contain my tumulous waves of lard somehow. It is a shame that now, having shed said lard, I can't relive that debate. I would be far more confident in my nudity this time, and with no fear that (as Mr Murray suggested during the debate) my erect member might skewer a child's head.

Evening dress here, during summer at least, consists of the light cotton 'yukata,' a full-length, belted robe which, in the right colour, would look really good with a hood and gown. That is, if you don't mind looking like Obi Wan Kenobe.

Bye for now, old friends,

Tom

[John Stewart]

Since when was an excuse necessary for random acts of nudity in St Andrews?

[Eliot Wilson]

Tom, Tom, Tom. Why is it that, if I search my soul, I know that you will have no objection at all to looking like Obi Wan Kanobe?

And I accept the point that you were gowned during the "naked" debate (ironic, really, given all those people who stand up in debates wearing everything BUT a gown), but it still displayed more to me than I wish to see of any of my friends. I suppose it could have been worse. But you did plonk your pants on the table, old boy...

[Anon.]

Yes... next to all the trophies and everything. That was Not Nice.

[Tom Plant]

I must have been feeling rebellious that night.

Or drunk.

[larkvi]

Tom, Tom, Tom. Why is it that, if I search my soul, I know that you will have no objection at all to looking like Obi Wan Kanobe?



"Obi-Wan Kenobi," spelled with an 'i.'

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Yours in Pointless Pedantry,

-Sean
Official "Handsome, but Weird" guy of the Centre for Mediaeval Studies
[...I prefer the word "eccentric" ]