A meeting of firsts on Tuesday: Sonja as 1st time evaluator, Terree as 1st time Table Topics Master, Jackie as 1st time General Evaluator and Julie gave her icebreaker speech.
With a theme of “Improv” Eric started us out with no agenda and promised to tell us WHY at the end of the meeting. Would it be to improve our improv? Prove our proverbs?….
Julie told us her story about the ever-changing the color of her house while her husband was away on assignment for the military. His perennial question prior to his deployment home was always “What Color is My House?”. The latest version:
Hannes then told us about the original social networking – actually talking to people face to face and some useful techniques for doing so!
And our last speaker was Debra who demonstrated very effectively how world leaders could wage a bloodless war by merely texting one another on what they were going to do to each other. General Petraeus and an Unknown Taliban Leader were funnily portrayed on the TT stage with animated texting.
Wrapping up the meeting was the award for Best Table Topics Speaker which went to Stephen for eloquently discussing his plans for a Lady GaGa themed Halloween. In the spirit of the theme the meeting (Improv), he was presented with a signed photograph of our very own Tom Carey.
Stay tuned for next weeks meeting theme. (Hint: Nothing to do with politics) We’ve had enough of that on the tube.
Cheers,
Marc
Greetings All,
Lots of numbers today as we had 6 guests, 3 (count ‘em three) icebreakers and 8 new members since August 1, 2010. The surge in members gave our club the “Smedley” Award for the most Smeds signed up! See the article!
Toastmaster Stephanie’s baseball-themed meeting brought out everyone’s inner Kevin Costner and WOD the day “Home Run” was used profusely throughout the meeting.
On the Icebreaker front, Sonja, Terree and Jackie all gave inspirational, informative and different 1st time speeches while Evaluators Tom, Eric and Katrina all gave informative, educational and perceptive feedback. Great speech introductions for the Toastmaster were supplied by all the speakers! (My soul is so happy. 
More info on good intros here
Next week:
Toastmaster/Eric
Speaker/Debra
Speaker/Hannes
Speaker/Julie
Eval/Marc
Eval/Sonja
Eval/Stephen
Cheers,
Marc
Ok, club contests are over, so back to the ol’ meeting summaries for you unlucky souls unable to attend the weekly meeting!
Lots of guests today…five total was the final tally. Brought in by the website and serenaded by Mr. Winger, just keeps them coming.
Rebecca took her first turn as Toastmaster and brought the meeting in on schedule and under budget! The theme was “Embracing Autumn”. Hard to do for those of us who are still in the “Pining for Summer” meeting. (Summer? We had a summer?)
Sonja was grammarian for the first time and gave us the the delicious “Ambrosial”.
Eric D. gave us another incisive look at where are money is disappearing with “How the tax code drives people to make poor economic choices and how to fix it”. Very interesting correlations between consumption, taxes and more.
Eric W. decided to apply for 4 different merit badges based on his experiences with peeing, vomiting and screaming campers in “An Application for Merit Badges”.
I had to put one of these pictures in here. Had to. Sorry.
Next week:
Debra/Toastmaster
Karen/Speaker
Stephen/Speaker
Eric D./Evaluator
Katrina/Evaluator
Cheers,
Marc
Hannes then told us about the original social networking – actually talking to people face to face and some useful techniques for doing so!
And our last speaker was Debra who demonstrated very effectively how world leaders could wage a bloodless war by merely texting one another on what they were going to do to each other. General Petraeus and an Unknown Taliban Leader were funnily portrayed on the TT stage with animated texting.
Wrapping up the meeting was the award for Best Table Topics Speaker which went to Stephen for eloquently discussing his plans for a Lady GaGa themed Halloween. In the spirit of the theme the meeting (Improv), he was presented with a signed photograph of our very own Tom Carey.
Stay tuned for next weeks meeting theme. (Hint: Nothing to do with politics) We’ve had enough of that on the tube.
