Hello, hello,

Sheena’s Beatles-reminiscent theme was a hit this week, although surprisingly we never broke out into song.  Okay, Lora did, but without backup.

Instead, we broke out into table topics, with Sandra introducing 5 thoughtful questions to 5 charismatic questionees.  Say hello to sarcasm, I think we’ll be seeing a lot of it with Michael “It was so hard to say goodbye to all of you after that first meeting” Schuttloffel.  But it really is hard for ME to say goodbye to wiffleball apparently, since I talked about it again during my table topic.

Drew was more than happy to say goodbye to her grandmother, or so she says: a battle for the sarcasm title, me thinks.  Then Corky laid it all out in a 2 minute diatribe on Albert’s manliness (or lack thereof as he suggested).  Oh no he didn’t!  Anyway, last up was Maria, who had the most awkward hello when she met George Bush and passed on her flu to him!!!  As Nelson from the Simpsons would say: “Ha hah”.

New member Gene was off the hook for table topics this week, but we put him on the spot at the end of the meeting when we voted him in, despite not knowing who played the Skipper!!  Everyone say HI to Gene when he comes back from travel *in three weeks*!

The two speeches were quite different from each other this week.  For his third speech, Jason confidently conducted a very organized, well thought out credit crisis seminar, something he must do every day since he was so good at it!  Oh yea, he is a mortgage specialist…

Then the veteran toastmaster John gave his 126,215th speech, encouraging everyone to evaluate the political candidates for their public speaking skills — not a hard sell in this election I guess.

And finally, did anyone else notice that Amy redeemed herself from last week’s grammarian gaff by being an excellent grammarian this week?  Nice one.

RIBBON WINNERS:
Best Table Topic & Humor & Enthusiasm: Corky “Cheap Shots” Logue
Best Speaker:  Jason Callender
Best Evaluator: Bert VUNK!

And one update on the international speech contest: we weren’t able to find a contest chair, so you can kiss it good-bye!!  There will be an informal contest selection on March 26th instead.