Dear Members, Guests and Friends,
To honor the forthcoming holidays, TM Marie started us off with non-altruistic holiday food topics. We thus learned that….
- TM Jose has bittersweet memories and has long practiced the seafood (aka see food) diet = eats everything he sees. To uphold American tradition in Spain, two turkeys are on order and he and his wife and their more than 6 friends will soon join the ranks of Covid derelicts. Shhhhh.
- In what is widely believed to have been a planted topic, TM BeckyJo showed us her collection of black salt from the Himalayas, Aymara salt from the Bolivian salt flats, purple salt from the Dead Sea and everyone’s all-time favorite - iodized Morton’s Salt from Publix. She Won Best Table Topics Award.
- First-time Table Topics participant Guest Alexandra described herself as a party goer who actually stays to do dishes and clean up till the bitter end. She has already received several Thanksgiving invitations from the group.
- Sipping her favorite morning tea, Guest Lorena receives sweet inspiration about the beauty of life and being alive. She also revealed she knows an indecisive bee. See attachment.
- TM Paolo will not be savoring the exquisite tastes of his mother’s cooking in Italy for Christmas due to that pesky virus but mostly due to the impending arrival of his new (soon to be pesky) bambino(a).
Along came the prepared speeches….
- TM Aleta, the inveterate and prosaic labor arbitrator, virtually conducted a 6-hour hearing involving excessive force and put into context all the tips learned from our resident tech gurus. More will be revealed.
- DTM Kip reminisced about chaotic Zoom meetings he’s attended lately where Robert’s Rules of Order have been blatantly ignored. We all need to learn the lesson from Custer’s Last Stance, where Custer got slaughtered because the Mohicans would not second the motion. He Won Best Speaker Award.
Regarding evaluations…
- TM Carmine lauded TM Aleta’s vast experience as a speaker and as an arbitrator and insisted on a second speech to be titled “Excessive force The Sequel”. He’s claiming the movie rights.
- TM Joe loves DTM Kip’s dainty expressions, such as solitary whackjob and cacophony. Like many of us, Joe is in awe that Kip’s wife has stuck around for 40 years. He Won Best Evaluator Award.
The Word of the Day was
CONTEXT, noun
The parts of a discourse that throw light on it.
Our fun meetings take place within the context of public speaking skill-building.
Below is the link to today’s recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=icCrAUqUyhE
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Happy Birthday, TM Pam!! May you survive the festivities…. And Happy Birthday, TM Carmine! Lots of Scorpios in EarlyBirds….
See you in two weeks!
Ana
Recap Writer
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