Dear Members, Guests and Friends,
Aptly led by Chief Judge DTM Kip and Contest Master DTM Mary Helen and presided by TM Paolo from his 200-year-old wine cellar bunker, we launched our Table Topics Contest with no further preliminaries.
The topic was EVERYONE ELSE….
- TM Marie affirmed unequivocally that the idea of Everyone Else is simply a fallacy – we are all connected as one in being citizens of the world and we need to like even those who are unlikeable. She Won Third Place.
- I, Ana, used to be a blamer, it was always EVERYONE ELSE’s fault, until I heard that if you take ME out of BLAME, all you have is BLA, BLA, BLA…. I am the common denominator in everything that happens to me. I Won First Place.
- TM Pam yearns to be like EVERYONE ELSE after a lifetime of pointing out that The Emperor Has No Clothes – she wants to dress him up once and for all, dang it! She Won Second Place.
And then, unexpectedly, the conversation turned sexy….
- TM Pam regaled us with a highly-charged speech explaining that one size does not fit all, as she taught an adult sexuality class and it turned very hands on…. She Won Best Speaker Award.
Her evaluator….
- TM Chris admired TM Pam’s ease and comfort when speaking publicly about sex, especially in the wee hours of the morning for those of us on Eastern Standard Time. She Won Best Evaluator Award.
While the ballot counter counted, DTM Mary Helen pursued pertinent Table Topics, and we learned that…
- What else? For TM Aleta, something new always seems to find her…. Lately it’s a talking pet centipede who accompanies her to church….
- Where else? For TM Paolo, there’s no place like his hometown, population 11,000 - and he’s on a first-name basis with all of them! Ciao, Giovanni! Bon giorno, Salvatore!
- Or else? TM Tom’s HOA drives him to cogently and contagiously put cognitive thoughts together, gracious mercy!
- Who else? TM Lois is learning to be the Who Else and marches ever onward to build her skills as a public speaker. She Won Best Table Topics Award.
- Anyone else? Our Bionic Man, TM Carmine is the incredibly shrinking man – and that includes his brain. Anyone else? That’s an uncertainty….
- Someone else? TM Jim G. passed the timely test - quarantined for one week with his other half in a hotel room in a foreign country. Now he knows definitely he would not have made it with someone else….
- When else? DTM Jim D. marveled that out of forced sequestration has emerged a new way of life – and without any of us even being part of a jury.
We were graced by the visit of our Area Director, TM Mary, who thoroughly enjoyed watching the camaraderie that reigns in Early Birds!
Our Techs were back in full force, TM Chris creating flash-lightning polls, online judging tools and TM Jim G. displaying them and counting – and recounting- ballots. After all, this is Florida…
Next week is our International Speech Contest, so fasten your seat belts – here we come!
Link to the recording - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YGCxbntvaU
Submitted from somewhere else,
Ana
Recap Writer
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