Hey Ya Toastmasters!

Ahhh, the Olympics. There’s nothing like watching women’s beach volleyball, women’s gymnastics and women’s washing cars in bikinis events. I hear there’s something going on in men’s swimming but who watches that?

Getting into the theme like no one else can was our Toastmaster Amy. She had on her red, white and blue athletic gear, passed the torch instead of shaking hands and gave out medals instead of ribbons. There’s some controversy as to whether she was using her own voice or whether she lip-synced the whole meeting replacing a hideously ugly Toastmaster. But there are no ugly Toastmasters so that controversy is over. Sure, a few of us could use a makeover…

ANYWHO – Our Table Topics Master Maureen was held up due to some suspicious findings during our pre-Olympic meeting drug testing so we vaulted right into our speeches.

Bert schooled us on the art of interpersonal communication. He brought in a toilet seat to demonstrate the familiar man/woman issue of closing the lid vs removing the seat entirely and taking it to Toastmasters. Apparently, Taline and Bert have some interpersonal problems that couldn’t be handled over the phone but could be aired openly among the rest of us. We were hoping it would turn Jerry Springer violent but Taline did not break her chair over his back. We still don’t know who da baby-daddy iz.

Some of Rey’s evaluation points -
Speak up
More toilet seat

Ania wins a gold medal for passion. She was a roller coaster of energy, emotion and gestures. There were soft voices, loud voices, devil voices (by the way, the devil has a Polish accent), professor smartypants voice, presidential candidate voice, maybe more. There was artwork – a few devils, a Christian hypocrite, maybe more. It was powerful. Don’t let the devil keep you down. Don’t be a hypocrite. Don’t mess with Ania.

Some of Jenny’s evaluation points -
Artistic merit = 10
Technical merit = 9

Lora roasted her own son, Justin, as part of his graduation from law school celebration. Little Justin drew ‘Head People’, lots of ‘Head People’ sometimes in fingernail polish on tables. Justin saw the business side to Atomic Fireballs. Justin was proud of being modest. Justin’s mom took it way too easy on him. We know no boy is that well behaved.

Some of Keith’s evaluation points -
Everyone should know the roastee
Rip your son apart

Table Topics quickshots – Carol finds the opening of the Olympics exciting even if most of it was fake. Taline (lots of face time in this meeting) thinks it’s a horrible idea to have a separate Olympics for smaller countries. She said most people would give an arm and a leg to be in the Olympics (except maybe swimmers, runners, jumpers, basketball players, etc. basically those athletes who utilize their limbs). Louis thinks it is fair for countries to hire non-native athletes to compete on their teams. Share the wealth.

Thanks to our other role players: Leanne – Timer, Wendy – Grammarian, Stuart – Invocater/Chuckle

Medal Winners -

Best Table Topic – Louis
Best Speaker – Lora
Best Evaluator – Jenny
Most Enthusiastic – Amy
Best Use Of Humor – Corky