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« Reply #8281 on: September 21, 2010, 01:21:58 AM » |
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Yippee!  I just successfully defended my title as the funniest speaker in my Toastmasters club. 
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« Reply #8283 on: September 21, 2010, 10:57:26 PM » |
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Hey Peter, congrats! I'm also a member of Toastmasters. 
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« Reply #8284 on: September 22, 2010, 12:27:45 AM » |
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Hey Peter, congrats! I'm also a member of Toastmasters.  Good for you! TM is one of the best organizations I know for personal and professional growth.  Of course, winning last night's humorous speech contest means I have to prepare for the area contest in two weeks. A couple of tweaks to my speech, and I should be even better. Maybe I'll even beat the gal who beat me last year. 
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Hey, I won the "Tall Tales" contest last year - maybe we'll meet on the field of battle someday! 
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Hey, I won the "Tall Tales" contest last year - maybe we'll meet on the field of battle someday!  I could have submitted my humorous contest speech for the Tall Tales contest if only it weren't a true story and my district actually conducted Tall Tales contests. What was your speech about?
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It was called "How I Really Lost The Weight" about a series of evetns leading to my fabulous weight loss of the prior year - the tale involved a defective treadmill, a coma, and an unsuccessful liposuction.
Unfortunately I think this year's attempt will have to be "How I Really Gained BACK all that weight!!"
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It was called "How I Really Lost The Weight" about a series of evetns leading to my fabulous weight loss of the prior year - the tale involved a defective treadmill, a coma, and an unsuccessful liposuction.
Unfortunately I think this year's attempt will have to be "How I Really Gained BACK all that weight!!"
I guess, then, that I could make my tall tale about real life events, the likes of which constitute my humorous speech. My current speech, "A Night on Patrol," is about that Halloween night I worked on the campus security patrol back in my college days. The paintball sniper who had me always in his sights... A squad of young men on an undie run... A trio of young men following me around and mooning me whenever they had the chance... Classic Halloween hijinks on a college campus.
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I saw a yellow crane digging up rocks at a construction site down the street.  Yuk, yuk, yuk! 
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« Reply #8292 on: September 22, 2010, 08:02:11 PM » |
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Also, just watched the GREAT "Sunset Boulevard" on TCM!!
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« Reply #8294 on: September 24, 2010, 01:41:19 AM » |
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« Reply #8296 on: September 24, 2010, 04:16:52 AM » |
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« Reply #8297 on: September 24, 2010, 12:58:17 PM » |
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Nah, I was just surfing the net and saw it, and figured it was random enough for the thread. 
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« Reply #8300 on: September 26, 2010, 10:46:26 PM » |
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If Brazil was an Orthodox contry, could the "Christ the Redeemer" or Rio de Janeiro be a "Christos Pantokrator"? LOL. Eh, a bit of a stretch.
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If Brazil was an Orthodox contry, could the "Christ the Redeemer" or Rio de Janeiro be a "Christos Pantokrator"? LOL. Eh, a bit of a stretch. It would be more like this:  ----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------  ---------------------- 
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If Brazil was an Orthodox contry, could the "Christ the Redeemer" or Rio de Janeiro be a "Christos Pantokrator"? LOL. Eh, a bit of a stretch. It would be more like this:  ----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------  Beautiful images. Thanks for sharing.
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« Reply #8306 on: September 27, 2010, 11:17:24 PM » |
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It gets mighty lonely around here at this time of night.
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It gets mighty lonely around here at this time of night.
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« Reply #8312 on: September 30, 2010, 12:22:42 AM » |
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« Reply #8313 on: October 01, 2010, 02:50:10 AM » |
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« Reply #8317 on: October 02, 2010, 02:00:58 AM » |
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« Reply #8318 on: October 04, 2010, 07:36:27 PM » |
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It was called "How I Really Lost The Weight" about a series of evetns leading to my fabulous weight loss of the prior year - the tale involved a defective treadmill, a coma, and an unsuccessful liposuction.
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Round 2 tonight... Competing against speakers from as many as four clubs outside of my own.
How'd it go? I won.  (My nerdy brand of humor got a lot of laughs.  ) Next round: the division contest on October 21. If I win that, I go on to the District 7 finals.
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How'd it go? I won.  (My nerdy brand of humor got a lot of laughs.  ) Next round: the division contest on October 21. If I win that, I go on to the District 7 finals. Cool  Good luck!
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