Lexicon, Cryptic Messages and Spanish in 3 easy lessons - an intellectual morning at EarlyBirds

  

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

We mustered our gray cells to come up with new lexicon under the intelligent guidance of TM Aleta:

* TM Marie is very grateful not to live in the Ukraine where they have severe supply chain issues.  The plethora of grocery stores in the US have a plethora of products.

* TM Jim G. is an expert in washing, especially greenwashing the barnacles on the bottoms of boats.

* I, Ana, carefully survey snd measure the meat space at the butcher shop in order to buy the right cut of meat.  

* TM Paolo likes the real universe better than the metaverse, which is used to escape reality.

* TM Chris officially named herself adorkable (dorkgeek + adorable).  We all agreed!

* TM Tom is very aware of virtue signaling as a stiff drink of Johnnie Walker.  The rest are falsified memories - his own words. He Won Best Table Topics Awards.

Along came the fabulous prepared speeches....

* TM Val gave us descriptions of the stories behind poems - cryptic messages presented with great hand gestures and vocal variety..  She Won Best Speaker Award.

* DTM Mary Helen traveled to Spain, Argentina, Peru, Mexico to learn Spanish in 5 easy lessons.  She's still at it but knows all kinds of cultures.

As for evaluations....

* First time evaluator TM Emmanuel condensed TM Val's speech into a metaverse and praised her soft, captivating voice.

* TM Marie praised DTM Mary Helen's tenacity in traveling through the long and winding road to achieve great vocal variety in Spanish.  She Won Best Evaluator Award.

The Word of the Day was

MUSTER, verb

To collect or assemble

MUSTER, noun

A group of peacocks

Example;  The muster of peacocks generously doused their Cuban Sandwich with muster.

Here's the link to the recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NCl9kiJO4M

No meeting next week!

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Ana

Recap Writer

Sayings, Parenthood and Are You Interested? EarlyBirds had a morning of sheer felicity

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

After a beautiful spiritual invocation led by TM Val, DTM Mary Helen elicited profound revelations from some well-known sayings.  We discovered that....

* TM Jose states that women have two brains and that's why they so felicitously multitask while men can barely handle the tv remote.

* TM Aleta is sorry to bother you but nevertheless inobtrusively reaches out to touch you physically or symbolically.

* TM Val felicitously signed up to build a wood banquet table and ended up signing "Easier Said Than Done" by The Essex - go to him, run to him, say sweet lovely things to him - tell him.... the table is the one!! Oh, Easier Said Than Done.  She Won Best Table Topics Award.

* DTM Jim D. perennially seeks a new direction but all roads take him to his Harley by way of the broken kitchen cabinets.

* Eternally optimistic TM Pam doesn't let the pesky idea that she doesn't know anything about it stop her.  Her next project is building a casket for any untimely death.

* TM Emmanuel gave us a rendition of "Meet Me In The Middle" by Parker McCollum while stating that it's the best spot to resolve conflict.

* TM Paolo had a yo-yo internet and drove with felicity and velocity in his car to an undisclosed location where we can practice "we don't have it all together but together we have it all."

* TM Tom combines Quakerism and Spunky Irishness to reject imperial control by others who want to bring him up to date.

* I, Ana, usually text (or WhatsApp) my brother to ask what are we doing next?  It's usually something felicitously fun.

* TM Marie prefers to meet people in the middle (again sang that song) and find out their extenuating circumstances that leads them to want to mess with her.

* Guest Millie was sure glad to meet us and praised our perceived eloquence with great felicity.

Along came prepared speeches...

* TM Emmanuel has learned the main parenting lesson:  DO NOT take your child on your tourist tours or your plans will be thwarted due to lack of enough snacks.

* TM Aleta has diametrically irreconcilable differences with her reflexologist and will limit their interactions to foot aromatherapy.  She Won Best Speaker Award. 

As far as evaluations go....

* TM Paolo praised TM Emmanuel for his deep voice, beautiful smile and power of parental forgiveness when travel plans are disrupted.  He Won Best Evaluator Award.

* TM Tom thoroughly enjoyed  TM Aleta's perky disposition, beautiful attire and found that Aleta's reflexologist is very intrusive and is better off focusing on clients' feet.

The Word of the Day was

FELICITY, noun

Intense happiness

Ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts.

Example:   Felicity is The Peak Of The Week - especially in the midst of stormy Nicole.

Here's the recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOHw6TaEC4M

See you next week!

Ana

Recap Writer

Fall, Culture Shock Follies and Childhood Memories - no procrastination at EarlyBirds!

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

We heard a very touching invocation by First Time Invocator TM Emmanuel, 

TM BeckyJo started us with words containing Fall or variations thereof.  We soon discovered that....

* DTM Mary Helen likes the warm rainfall of Florida in November to cool us off to frisky high 70s.

* TM Paolo loves windy days indoors in Puglia, the heel of Salvatore Ferragamo's boot, where the Adriatic and the Ionic Sea winds converge to mess up his ultra gelled hairdo.

* TM Emmanuel is Florida Power & Light's top customer - keeps his lights on 24/7.  He's moving to Alaska to lighten up his bill.

* TM Val remarked that fall rains are aggressive and beat the frail orange, yellow and brown leaves to the ground in preparation for snow submission.

* DTM Jim D. grew up in Syracuse NY, where less than 4 ft of snow was considered a lame flurry.

* TM Marie makes To Dos of her To Dos - like a circle in a spiral notebook, like a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel.

* TM Aleta's fallback position is on a pile of recently raked leaves before they go to compost.

* I, Ana, suffer from a condition known as tourist fallfoot which is cured with SuperTourist Glue.  I Won Best Table Topics Award

Regarding prepared speeches...

* I, Ana, recounted my first impressions of the United States:  ranchthousandislandsgreengoddessfrenchcreamycaesarraspberrywalnutsroastedsesamehoneymustard.  Closely followed by honeybunchesofoatscapncrunchcheeriosspecialkfrostedflakescocoapuffs.  I Won Best Speaker Award.

* DTM Jim Day was voluntold to speak by his Agent, told us that they paved Syracuse and put up a parking lot (sung to the tune of They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot).

First-time General Evaluator TM Val graciously led the evaluations segment.

* TM Paolo related to my foreigner experiences and kindly asked me to stop looking everywhere except at the camera, which gave him strabismus. (Look it up).  He Won Best Evaluator Award.

* DTM Mary Helen submitted a written affidavit to avoid bias and favoritism and praised DTM Jim for moving to another level of successful unpreparedness for a speech.  From one DTM to another.

The Word of the Day was

PROCRASTINATION, verb

To delay or postpone action needlessly.

Example:  Procrastination is a mystical land where 99% of human productivity, motivation and achievement is safely stored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wMgI4x8us

See you next week!

Ana

Recap Writer