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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Battle of the Sexes 2011!
It was an epic battle of girls against guys as forces of nature tried to stop the event before it began. Some guys gave in to the temptation of warmth and safety from potentially icy roads, but the girls were undeterred… cold weather is no match for childbirth. The battle was on! As Toastmaster for [...]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Honk if you’ve had Car Trouble
Car trouble…if you’ve ever had a car, then you’ve had car trouble. Toastmaster Patrick jumpstarted the meeting with a supercharged story of a high-speed hitch-related almost-disaster, which could have been tragic but luckily for us it was just really funny. Table Topics Master Li got eight – count ‘em – eight people involved with her [...]
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Bad advice!
What was the theme? Military processes? Medical acumen? No, it was the all-encompassing “bad advice” theme that spawned these topics. Katy began with advice in limerick form about being yourself, which flowed beautifully into Stuart’s rant about the value of literary recommendations from fellow Toastmasters. A helpless book was violently attacked before going MIA. Jessica [...]
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
Not-so-New Year’s Resolutions
Blake started us off with a great quote, Robert helped us all stick with theme by making the word of the day “resolution” and Heather got us excited about time constraints with her own personal brand of enthusiasm. Brian introduced the New Year’s Resolution theme by sharing his own success with not drinking this year. [...]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
How To Stage a Killer Meeting
Hooray! Corky is back! Apparently a lot of folks out there made a New Year’s resolution to join Toastmasters. Oh we had guests yesterday. And we had a meeting that knocked their socks off. Robert Horan was our Topic Master. He asked, and members explained How To. Cynthia was hilarious with a thinly-veiled tutorial on [...]
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
Times They Are A Changing
The theme of transitions started quick and strong with Albert’s announcement that this would be his last meeting with our club. We wish him well in his exciting new endeavors and hope that he’ll at least make some special guest appearances at our meetings. Taline did a fabulous job filling Corky’s shoes while he’s out [...]
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
You Can’t Handle the Truth!
The Theme of Wednesday’s meeting was “True Confessions” In his role as the True Confessions Table Topic Master, Blake went the extra mile. From now on, like Blake, every Topic Master shall wear a suit and tie, and run this section of the meeting game-show-host style. To protect the privacy of our participants, let’s just say that, [...]