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 [...]