Archive for September, 2008

Monday, September 29th, 2008

“Autumn” Meeting Recap – 09/24/08

Fellow Capital City Friends: This will be a brief recap.  Forgive the brevity…unless you like brevity, in which case you ought to tell us to put a cork in it much of the time. With Keith as Toastmaster, we had a great meeting.  We had a few friends back with us who had been absent [...]

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Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Capital City Sweeps up at Area Contest!

It was a proud day for Capital City Toastmasters! It was a clean sweep for our club’s contestants at the Area J-61 contest Saturday, September 20. Keith Smith took the first place trophy with his no-holds-barred, pull-every-rabbit-out-of-the-hat, gratuitous-sex-and-violence-laced Tall Tale, and Rey Deveau won the Evaluation contest with her supportive and insightful presentation. Congratulations Keith [...]

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

“How To…” Meeting Recap 09/17/08

And now I will demonstrate how to quickly crank out a Toastmaster meeting recap: We met. We spoke. There was a lot of clapping. Ta-da! Jason ran the meeting as our Toastmaster. And once he quit blushing from Rey’s introduction of him, he did a fine job. Rey gave a perfect demo of how to [...]

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

“What I Learned or Didn’t Learn in School” Meeting Recap 09/10/08

John brought in a bunch of foreigners who took away our jobs…and we didn’t mind a bit. Of course I’m talking about John’s foreign students from his English course. They came from far and wide to assist him with his duties throughout the meeting adding a fun twist as they always do. We invited them [...]

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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Tall Tales Contest Recap – 09/03/08

According to one of our guests, our club is made up of a bunch liars.  Do we agree?  Darn right, we do.  We’re a bunch of darn good liars. Stuart, as our most incredible Toastmaster — thank you, Stuart –  kicked off the meeting with a tale about women’s nude water polo.  Hmph.  That’s about [...]

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