Kilkenomics was, by all accounts, an enormous success.

I got to only one gig which was truly, fun, funny, thought provoking and informative.

I was sat (as we would say locally) beside somebody drinking 'a pint'. Having just been refused 'a pint', I enquired of him how he had come into possession of his.

It transpired that he had made the trip from the USA to Kilkenny specifically for 'Klikenomics' and that he had, furthermore, grasped the principle of 'boozenomics' in Ireland on the instant: drink the sponsor's product and you will get it in the quantity of your choice, fast, cheap and in plenty!

Anyway, as he supped his 'pint' and I sipped my, costly, 'bottle' we both engaged with the event.

And this was, without naming names, a discourse between an infant former minister for economic affairs from Argentina, a dizzy, tattooed, Italianate economics prize- fighter from London; an wholly improbable hedge-fund manager from the sub-continent and an ubiquitous and inimitable contributor to the endless debate on Ireland's economic prospects who was described in the Kilkenomics programme notes, as ...'the Adjunct Lecturer in Finance with Trinity College Dublin............ (capitals his - or theirs - but not mine)

Now, I've always assumed that I knew the meaning of the word 'adjunct'.
But during the Q&A session at the end of their presentation, this contributor was asked '...what is an adjunct professor?' I thought he hesitated slightly before he replied '...a visiting professor...'
That was not what I, nor my dictionary (in this instance, Collins), thought the meaning to be.

But it was a clever response worthy of a trader in the art of sophistry........