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Friday, November 12th, 2010
Regrets…I’ve had a few
First time as our Toastmaster, Brad did an excellent job at our November 10th meeting. He was smooth and entertaining and confident and kept the meeting moving nicely. He chose a meaty theme: Regrets. He also used this theme as an opportunity to air some intriguing details of Robin’s personal life. (Something tells me Robin [...]
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover
Yesterday’s meeting theme was Books. It stands to reason that a group like ours, a group all about communication and the development of effective communication skills, would be deeply into books…or does it? First, the agenda was great. The template looked like an old-timey book. For Stuart’s invocation, he hijacked great quotes about life and [...]
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
My Generation
Leeanne “The Screamer” Pacatte led us through an uncharacteristically rowdy meeting on October 20th that began with a singalong. “My Generation” was a fitting theme for our club, which includes many generations. It’s quite a trick how together we manage, each week, to bridge that generation gap. The new Loud Leeanne is living proof that [...]
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Let’s Rant!
It was, perhaps, the Ultimate Toastmasters Meeting. Maria Harp’s Invocation was a premonition: “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” Our theme was “Let’s Rant!” An open invitation to vent, complain, curse, rage, etc. During Emperor Albert’s Table Topics, Leeanne got to [...]
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
History Repeats Itself
October 6, 1866: First Train Robbery October 7, 2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Governor of California. October 7, 2010: Stuart Cook hammers History Theme into the ground as Toastmaster of Capital City Toastmasters Meeting We had a wonderful meeting yesterday. Becky Spohn stepped up to the plate as a last minute speaker, and shared her thoughts [...]
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Walking the Walk, Talking the Talk
Bert popped in from out of nowhere and Vunked up our meeting. As Vunkmaster, he Vunked with our agenda, and vunked together his own version. Bert talks the talk, but does he valk the valk? Ve’ll be ze judge of zat! Our word of the day, presented by Leeanne, was VERACITY, not to be confused with VORACITY which [...]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Pssssst…Your Hidden Talent is Showing
We learned, yesterday, that, collectively, the members of our club have the following hidden talents: – Ability to create an origami bird with wings that flap when tickled just right – Lying with finesse – Shaking of the booty covered with gold coins – Singing – Walking in circles, both clockwise and counterclockwise – Kicking [...]