Tuesday September 7, 2010

Theme: “The Death of Summer”

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?

Portland Breaks 1 Hour Rainfall Record!

The music:

THE MEETING

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.

Cheers,

Marc