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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Great Team Effort!
An excellent team effort today for Capital City Toastmasters. Brian did a bang-up job as first time Contest Chair (huge job) and Taline had it all going on as Chief Judge. Leeanne and Louis were our timers, Lief and Li were our Sergeants-at-Arms, and Carol and Louis were our vote counters. It was Keith who [...]
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
And…..Sold! to the man in the second row
Do I hear seventy? I hear seventy – can I get seventy five? Seventy five? Who’ll give me eighty? Eighty. I have eighty. Do I hear eighty five? Eighty it is. Going – going – Sold. The September 1 meeting theme was Auctions, and Robert Horan was our Toastmaster/Auctioneer. Super job Robert! During Table Topics [...]
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Teacher’s Pet!
Mr. Albert, our English teacher, started the class by returning everyone’s test papers, with gold stars and comments for everyone. The word of the day was “matriculate.” Miss Leeanne, our speech teacher, gave pop quizzes to Robin, Li, and Wendy. Two new students gave their first reports: Gina spoke of a wonderful new life, a transformation she is [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
My Mama Told Me
“My Mama Told Me” was the theme of Wednesday’s meeting. We learned that one member of our club has a wise mama, one has a mama who will love her more than anyone else will ever love her, and one has a mama who is as dumb as a rock. Leeanne “The Screamer” Pacatte [...]
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Hats Off!
The theme was hats and that was that! Kudos to Maria, Carol, Stuart, Louis, Brenda, and everyone else who wore a hat. Extra points to Cynthia who showed up in Palestinian headgear. During Table Topics we learned that Brendan has a giant head, we learned that Lora’s husband has had a Cat-in-the-Hat- like impact on her life, we [...]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Bring on the Technology Pet Peeves
Toastmaster Robert Horan picked a theme that was at once high-tech and nostalgic. Our agenda was the coolest: an image of an old fashioned typewriter, taking up most of the page, with all the roles succinctly stated in a narrow strip on the right. The theme? Pet Peeves about Modern Technology. And don’t we all [...]
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Junk Food Junkie
Hot Dogs, HoHos, Reese’s Puffs Cereal, Coke, Fries…and that was just the agenda. Cynthia made her debut as Toastmaster and did a dynamite job of it. Brenda did her Ice Breaker. It was a Magical Mystery Tour, hilarious and meandering and thought-provoking and endearing all at once, with a sweet ending that let us know [...]
