Dear Members, Friends and Guests,
It’s Happy New Year at Toastmasters! We celebrated by inducting our new officers and bidding a grateful farewell to the outgoing. Our returning TM Jose was welcome back to the Club with raucous applause by a cheerful crowd.
I, Ana (sounds like I, Claudius) launched Table Topics with popular campaign slogans from the 50s and 60s.
- TM Joe is grateful that his wife and daughters don’t leave home without their phones and their surgical masks, rather than their credit card, it causes less of a dent in his wallet and prevents panic attacks.
- TM Marie loves paper towels, the quicker picker uppers, because she has a bulimic cat.
- TM Jose reminisced about the friendly skies, when flight attendants were actually friendly although some planes in certain countries were glued together with gum.
- TM Tom enjoyed finger-lickin good fried chicken while flying friendly skies with pressurized cabins that kept him from exploding. He won Best Table Topics Award.
- DTM Kip carries a stain stick with him everywhere because he experiences a strange phenomenon where food, paint, dirt, dust and other particles fly through the atmosphere and adhere to his clothes.
- TM Pam lost the bet of eating only just one potato chip a long long time ago so what’s the use anyway? We will all just get larger sweat pants. Confinement may become permanent because the alternative is ugly.
- TM Chris likes slogans to be truthful and to say that Coca Cola is the real thing is clearly beyond the pale. She will just continue to teach old dogs new tricks, whether they take issue with the canine comparison or not.
In the prepared speech….
- TM Aleta conquered surrounding chaos and noise in the rural diner where she reminisced about her early times in EarlyBirds. She may be preparing to unfazedly delivering speeches to angry mobs, which seems to be the order of the day. She won Most Improved Speaker and Best Speaker Award by a landslide.
As for the evaluation…
- TM Joe praised TM Aleta for her composure amidst chaos, which reinforces why we’re in Toastmasters anyway, to learn to nonchalantly French press coffee when all else fails. He won Best Evaluator by a landslide.
Tech Tips:
- In an unexpected turn of events, a baffled TM Guru Jim had to admit that for him, like for the rest of us ungurus, technology has a mind of its own and some days those buttons just don’t seem to work.
Incoming Prez’ TM Jeff launched a discussion about the future of the group. Several ideas were presented and will be followed up. Exciting times are ahead for EarlyBirds. If you want to know more details, come to our next meetings!!
The Word of the Day is
INNATE, adjective
Belonging to the essential nature of something. Inherent, native, inborn.
Example: She has an innate sense of rhythm.
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See you next week!
Ana I.
Recap Writer
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