TM Marie started our meeting with various aspects of the holiday season. It was revealed to us that….
- TM Pam is searching for lost donation checks in 3 homes ago; Dang! Who knew it was soooo hard to give money away! She’s starting in January 2022 to make the “Giving Tuesday” November 2022 date.
- Guest Brittany does not partake in “Black Freeedaaaay” (as it is known in Spain) because – like most of us – she avoids “spending money she doesn’t have, buying things she doesn’t need, to impress people she doesn’t even like”!
- TM Lois did declare that this is indeed the most wonderful time of the year – she gave her family a magnanimous Thanksgiving speech and was loved right back by them!
- Newlywed TM Jeff is adapting to his bride’s new holiday traditions, starting with a very different – nonetheless beautifully simple- Christmas tree, and eliminating sparkly nonsense.
- TM Chris and TM Jim deplete greeting card companies’ inventory for TM Jim’s extended family and then omit mailing or hand-delivering the greeting cards. It’s all for the forgetful greeting card giver, presumably.
- TM Jim concurred that it is indeed important for greeting card givers who don’t give greeting cards to remember that they must help greeting card manufacturing companies. It’s all about being magnanimous to the greeting card companies’ survival in this Virtual Age Of Thumb and Send.
- TM Paolo reminisced about looking for moss, wood and hay to create a natural Nativity scene in the home of his youth. He will do it this year with his own children and build the manger in the wine cellar. He Won Best Table Topics Award.
- DTM Jim D. has concocted a Machiavellian plan to have a bucket of water drop on the heads of Porch Pirates, while hoping it’s not a relative showing up unannounced.
- TM Aleta conspires and dreams by the fire, hypnotically conjuring up plans for roasting chestnuts and pondering which chainsaw to buy on Black Friday….
And then came the much-awaited Dealing With a Difficult Audience speech by Unflappable Maestro DTM Kip…
- Being accosted un-magnanimously by the audience of innate hecklers, DTM Kip kept his cool and insisted that Canadian Parliament reads bills – not once, not twice, but THREE times – in unison before obtaining Royal Assent from the Faraway Queen in Balmoral Castle who is on Direct Dial with the Canadian Governor General, as it’s practically the last remnant of their Old Dominion Commonwealth holdings. Now what they do in Saskatchewan… that’s another story. Hecklers varied from deeming it a humorous speech to repeatedly stating that they were in the wrong meeting. DTM Kip Won Best Speaker Award in an absolute landslide.
As far as the evaluation is concerned….
- TM Paolo was fascinated by the amazing exercise of DTM Kip handling a difficult audience and recommended a more composed posture to attempt to control the uncontrollable hecklers and to refrain from conversing with them under any circumstances by keeping his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the camera at all times. Eyedrops before the speech may help. And one might ask, why Canadian Parliamentary Procedure??? In another contested race, TM Paolo Won Best Evaluator Award.
The Word of the Day was
MAGNANIMOUS, adj.
Generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.
Example: Alliteration King TM Carmine had a field day with synonyms Benevolent, Beneficent and Big-Hearted, and magnanimously urged those who don’t know what Alliteration is to go look it up.
Note from the Recap Writer: Just hang around TM Carmine a little longer and you won’t need to look it up!
YouTube recording link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy1M8hIHKJE
See you next week!
Ana I.
Recap Writer
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