One of our tutors--Hercule Poirot :-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

You remember the description of our group The eEurope ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yahoo-cls-europeaninformationsociety/ ), don't you? I'm also sure you remember my comment about comprehensively instructive holiday entertainment [ http://fedcba.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nie-samym-surveillance (June 21, 2009 at 2:33pm)]. Therefore, my wife [an ardent Chief Inspector James Japp (Philip Jackson), Hercule Poirot (David Suchet), Captain Arthur Hastings (Hugh Fraser), and Miss Felicity Lemon (Pauline Moran) fan]

(here are all four of them from the left to the right)

and I would like to welcome those three categories of students [from both Poznan University of Technology ( http://triton.cs.put.poznan.pl/platon/studia/planyStudiow/kierunek/... ) and from European Career College ( http://www.kde.edu.pl/page.php/1/0/show/915 and http://www.kde.poznan.pl/page.php/1/0/show/640 )] for discussing together those three aspects of that valuable TV series ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094525/ ), namely security matters, European matters, and linguistic matters. Naturally other fans are welcome too. :-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The King of Clubs
Not only Competitive Intelligence professionals ( http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/forum/topics/ci-as-a-dark-a... ) are very often put in moral dilemmas ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-king-of-clubs ), aren't they? ;-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The Dream
Could Mrs. Farley ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-dream ) be treated as a precursor of xenophobia appearing half a century later in Conservative Party (see, for example at http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2007/07/Britain_cann... ), the member of European Conservatives and Reformists ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Conservatives_and_Reformists )?

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

Peril At End House
I try to guess whether Competitive Intelligence professionals [defended there by one of our members ( http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/xn/detail/2036441:Comment:2... )] rummaging through documents of the companies being in competition with their companies are as decisively questioned by any colleagues as Hercule Poirot is decisively questioned by Captain Hastings and whether they retort to them as aptly as Hercule Poirot retorts to Captain Hastings ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/peril-at-end-house ).

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The Veiled Lady
Dear contributors to that discussion ( http://fedcba.ning.com/group/bi/forum/topics/biometryczne-technologie ), have you already heard about excellent Swiss locks? No? Enjoy therefore this fragment ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-veiled-lady ) of the second episode of the second season ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094525/episodes#season-2 ). ;-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The Lost Mine
Consistency is one of the most important characters essential to behavior of all three groups of students active here. Lack of consistency is easy to perceive in statements of Lord Pearson ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-lost-mine_1 and http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-lost-mine_2 ), isn't it?

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The Cornish Mystery
I'm sure all of you know the proverb "The end justifies the means" ["Morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary to achieve morally right outcomes; actions can only be considered morally right or wrong by virtue of the morality of the outcome" ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_end_justifies_the_means )]. Is it present also in these fragments ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-cornish-mystery_1 and http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-cornish-mystery_2 ) of the fourth episode of the second season ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094525/episodes#season-2 )? Incidentally, who is a more faithful follower of this proverb, Hercule Poirot or Captain Hastings ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-cornish-mystery_3 and http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-cornish-mystery_4 )?

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The Disappearance Of Mr Davenheim
Have you ever dreamt that you have been working from home? I've dreamt WFH (Working From Home) every day since 1997. It seems that also Hercule Poirot dreams it but Chief Inspector Japp tries to challenge that dream of his ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-disappearance-of-mr ). ;-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

Double Sin
Taking account of the subthread Hercule Poirot academically exalted ( http://fedcba.ning.com/xn/detail/2516803:Comment:4481 ), it's nice to see at last a lecturer who dares to form some generalizations from abundance of his own experience ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/double-sin_1 ). Incidentally, who of us wouldn't like to wish to be in an opinion of any prominent lecturer presented such the unique one as Hercule Poirot in the opinion of Chief Inspector Japp ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/double-sin_2 )? :-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

Adventure Of The Cheap Flat
Analyze carefully this fragment ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/adventure-of-the-cheap-flat ) of the seventh episode of the second season ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094525/episodes#season-2 ) and next return to that opinion of Chief Inspector Japp ( http://fedcba.ning.com/xn/detail/2516803:Comment:4601 ). Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings aren't really masters of "rough stuff", are they? ;-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The Kidnapped Prime Minister
Okay, it has been my fault that I've watched the eighth episode of the second season ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094525/episodes#season-2 ) fogged by the following dialog between Captain Hastings and Hercule Poirot.

'I was asking you what you thought of this attempt to assassinate MacAdam?'
'Enfantillage!' replied Poirot promptly.
The Kidnapped Prime Minister. By Agatha Christie ( http://members.lycos.co.uk/Agaweb/Poirot/pi008.html )

However, what noun describes better this behavior of any prime minister in such a situation ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-kidnapped-prime-minister ) than the noun "enfantillage (childishness)"?

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

My wife was proving in the fifties

that a double-breasted coat with six buttons and a belt was at that time in Europe still as much fashionable as nearly forty years earlier, which was proved by Captain Hastings

:-)

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

The Adventure Of The Western Star
I love practical logic. The handbook composed by Zygmunt Ziembiński was used by me even in the discussion with Markus Vinzent [Can we communicate with our opponents? ( http://www.lemant.user.icpnet.pl/tad/0199,%200200,%200201,%200203,%... )]. However, "ice-cold logic" I've met only there ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-adventure-of-the-western ). ;-)