No post last week as I wanted to let Leissa do the honors of the meeting/contest recap and announce our winner, Mr. Eric “My Middle Name is Theatre” Winger! If you missed his Iowa farmer costume and imitation, I’m sure we can persuade him to bring both out for Halloween.
Eric Davis, our Toastmaster for Tuesday gave us the scrumptious theme of “Chocolate Chip Cookies”. Not content to just let us think about CCC, he actually brought a plate of them in!
Hannesaltruistically gave us the Word of the Day, altruistically which was used fairly frequently by the cookie munching public.
Rebecca as Speaker #1 gave us a lovely, organized and well-thought out speech entitled “45 Words” focusing on our First Amendment Rights.
The next Speaker, who shall remain nameless, told a strange tale of happenings in a small town in isolated Yamhill County.
One of our guests (whose name escapes me), took home the new white “Best Table Topics” riboon award.
Eric W. reported that we had 3 new folks join at that meeting. Is is something he is wearing?
Next week is the Table Topics (aka Terror Topics Contest)! If you would like to compete, let Contest Chair Eric W. know.
Yes, it was a sad, sad, sad day at Timbertalkers as a crowd of tearful mourners bemoaned the early, pointless and premature death of our dear friend Summer. Accompanied by suitable music, the group wept communally throughout the meeting. As cruel as Mother Nature can be, she was even a degree crueler that day by making Tuesday the day of the wettest hour EVER recorded in the history of Portland. Don’t believe it?
Kathleen gave us a new twist on Word of The Day and requested that we try to work in some Tom Swifty’s. Things like:
“I haven’t developed my photographs yet,” said Tom negatively.
“This decay wasn’t there before,” said Tom neurotically.
“That just doesn’t add up,” said Tom, nonplussed.
“Can you read music?” the bandleader asked notably.
“What’s the value of a dollar bill?” asked Tom noteworthily.
Speeches
Ken lead us off with the greeting and introduction of a speech that “Maximizing Your Profit” that he is going to be giving to about 80 auto parts shop owners and other bigwigs in Las Vegas next week. The actual presentation is going to be very unToastmaster-like as there are no speech intros for the speakers, no MC and no Toastmaster. According to Ken, NAPA conferences are fairly backwards in that regard. He used this opportunity to practice his speech and have the audience pretend to be the store owners.
Katrina was Speaker #2 with her speech “When the Serenity Prayer Just Isn’t Enough – How to Deal With Challenging Kids“. During this informative speech, she gave the audience discipline tips learned during her 15 years as a school teacher through a creatively presented PowerPoint show. Some suggested these same techniques could be used on difficult adults! Sample slide below:
Speech Contest Tuesday!
Join E2 and K2 (Eric D.,Eric W. Karen and Katrina) as they battle it out for funnyperson supremacy in the club humorous speech contest!
Judges Tom, Marc, Stephen and Debra (shown below) will be on duty to ensure the speakers are cunningly evaluated, properly scored and exactingly noted.
Our meeting started on time, with the introduction of our Toastmaster, our own Nanna, and Jennifer Anderson. The theme for the meeting was and a quote is in order:
“Pregnant with Possibilities”. If you were at our BBQ on Saturday, you probably know why this is my theme!”
Our word of the day was Conceive, and clearly the race was on.
Our first speaker was Kathleen, who gave us a great demonstration on cooking Halibut, along with a couple of stories not only about how to prepare it, but also to catch it, and all the fun and pageantry that involves.
Our second speaker, Eric Davis gave a great talk about riding his bike (he brought it too…sort of a show-and-tell type of day) from the East Side Esplanade to Mt. Tabor. Again, good use of props, uniform, and appropriate safety equipment.
Table Topics was ushered in by Karen, and we all had a great time in trying to convince Jen that whatever Karen handed us from her bag of “Grandma Stuff” was just the best for her.
Eric Wringer and Katrina did their evaluations with grace, humor and valuable feedback for our speakers.
We ended our meeting with Tom asking for an all club “ya sure” in voting in new members Diva and Terree.
