Random topics, Youth and IPhones and SCUBA - manifest morning at EarlyBirds

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

DTM Jim D made us manifest our true feelings about random topics.  We soon learned that...

*   TM Emmanuel's Dad is his model and reference and allows him to blatantly ignore Ancestry and its maze of connecting dots.

*   TM Pam does not want to impose her historical beliefs on produce and finally figured out that a carrot is nothing other than a loquacious speaker!  She Won Best Table Topics Award.

* TM BeckyJo once practiced vehicular airlifting to pickup a distracted friend's airline ticket in time to get the friend on the flight, once and for all time!

* TM Aleta admits that pigs have good lung capacity to oinc and she tried to put lipstick on a pig - her ex husband(s) but you know how that ended.

* TM Tom accepts little white lies if he's the little white liar but condemns them if he is the one being little white lied to.  

* I, Ana, would put Sixties Top 40s hits as a ringtone on my phone if only I had the manifest capacity to be techie savvy.

* TM Randolph thinks Fort Lauderdale is the ultimate tourist attraction and alas! a Gazillion Manifest Spring Breakers heard him.  As I see them chugging beer, I ask myself why should I pay for their student loans - do you ask yourself that question too????

Along came the prepared speeches...  We had a special treat today with a Guest Speaker all the way from Italy...

* TM Marilena delighted us with the eternal manifest dilemma of parents worldwide - succumbing to pressure from adolescent kids or accepting that insanity is hereditary: we get it from our kids.  She Won Best Speaker Award.

* TM Chris told us about flying, floating, meditating, exploring new worlds and seeing elephant fish in tutus, weightless and stressless.

And then came the evaluations...

* TM Tom praised TM Marilena for starting with a question, the call to action and the fact that alone we are a drop but together we are an ocean.  Overwhelmed parents of the world, unite!!

* TM BeckyJo enjoyed TM Chris for her masterful skill, her engaging style and her expertise with visual aids.   Long live Nemo!!  She Won Best Evaluator Award.

The Word of the Day was

MANIFEST, adj or verb

adj - clear or obvious to the eye or mind

verb - display or show by one's acts or appearance

Example:  It's not always manifest whether manifest is an adjective or a verb.  It's simply manifest!

Manifestly submitted,

Ana I.

Recap Writer

Prominent Women Quotes, Water and More Water - a fluid morning at EarlyBirds!

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

TM Marie inspired us with famous quotes by notable women.  We quickly found out that...

* TM BeckyJo is afraid of us, the rowdy, unpredictable, wild, ubiquitous EarlyBirds.  She'd much rather be burnt alive like Joan of Arc - ok, not quite.

* DTM Jim D. had a schoolteacher who was ubiquitous - both a blessing and a lesson all rolled up into one!  She trained him to, later in life, be able to serve 500 pancakes in a recordbreaking 6.5 minutes...

* TM Aleta lives her own life with great love - no small deed, indeed!

* TM Chris regrets not having found out more about her Mother's life and particularly about her Mother's jewelry.   She Won Best Table Topics Award.

* DTM Mary Helen realizes that hindsight is intelligent and still has lots of things to understand and not fear....  Hey, it is what it is....

* TM Pam loves her family very deeply and would just like to have a quick meal with Helen Keller to borrow some child rearing techniques.

* TM Paolo understands that victory is waking up, walking outside and enjoying life itself.  Things don't happen to you - they happen for you!

* I, Ana, try to display generosity toward others starting at home, although I don't always succeed.  Did Amelia Erhart wear Depends on her solo flights?  That is the real question.

* TM Randolph removed his Dad coat and became a kid while on a wild ride in Thrill Park, Orlandoland.

Regarding our prepared speeches...

* TM Tom startled us with the statistic that we humans are 60% water and soon we will be drinking canceriferous water taken right out of the underground aquifer.  Insider tip:  Buy shares of Evian... straight from the canceriferous Alps!!  He Won Best Speaker Award.

* TM Jim G. introduced us to Muck Diving, aka Goo/Sediment dead coral remnants where hairy frog fish, flamboyant cuttle fish, blue ring octopus, decorator crabs and other exotic millimetric critters abound.  Insider tip: buy shares in Nauticam Underwater camera company. 

As far as evaluations go...

* TM Paolo suggested that TM Tom center the camera angle and avoid the confusing winding road of Pathways although it was all said with great vocal variety.  He Won Best Evaluator Award. 

* DTM Mary Helen praised TM Jim G. for his astuteness in telling us that the popular Muck Diving is available in Riviera Beach, Florida, which will save all of us thousands of dollars flying the unfriendly skies. .  Insider tip:  Buy shares in magnifying lens companies.

The Word of the Day was

UBIQUITOUS, adj.

Yoo-Bik-Wi-Tuhs

Existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time.  Omnipresent.

Example:  Humor is ubiquitous at EarlyBird meetings.

Here is the link to the recording:  

https://youtu.be/jR0AuBVwWq8

See you next week!

Ana

Ubiquitous Recap Writer 

St Patrick, Age Is A Number and Maewyn Succat - an unduplicitous day at EarlyBirds

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

TM BeckyJo corroborated history's duplicitous nature when she revealed that St Patrick's real name was Maewyn Succat (St Patrick is catchier), his meanderings are dubious at best and he wasn't even canonized.  He did, however, invent green beer.

We also learned that...

* TM Tom is a tough Irishman who believes in elves and is meagerly forgiving because mercy droppeth from heaven smack onto the middle of a football field.

* TM Paolo burst our bubble by stating that spaghetti is Chinese, pizza is French and Italy's national dish turns out to be corned beef pizza.   It's all in the marketing!  He Won Best Table Topics Award.

* DTM Mary Helen asked TM BeckyJo to take it back, take it back, the Irish DO NOT like pork, she will not stand for this duplicitousness.

* TM Astrid is Puerto Rican and as such, proudly confesses that she's never even heard of St Patrick  but she absolutely knows there's always a duplicitous agenda behind it all.

* TM Randolph works a lot because kids are expensive but some day he will earn gold by singing and writing songs for other artists.  (Note from the EarlyBirds:  He will succeed, too!)

* TM Emmanuel would go to Russia and China in a yellow submarine and feel just like a fish in water.

* TM Chris pondered if there's any other kind of party but an Irish party and her favorite memories are of dancing on crutches at an Irish pub!

In our prepared speeches...

* Guest speaker TM Tim proved to us irrefutably that the key to success is to avoid Irish traffic lights on Tipperary Hill in Syracuse, NY.  He Won Best Speaker Award.

* TM Pam revealed that St. Patrick was best friends with Roman tyrant Coroticus who invented green beer to unclog corotid arteries.  The details are lost in the mist of history.  

As far as evaluations go...

* TM Randolph praised TM Tim and asked him to buy the Camera Angle instruction book recently published by our own TM Paolo.

* DTM Mary Helen marveled at TM Pam's ability to debunk a duplicitous saintly myth in 5 to 7 minutes, much longer than the time it takes to gulp a mug of green beer.  She Won Best Evaluator Award.

The Word of the Day was

DUPLICITOUS, adj.

Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.

Example:  Sometimes we're attracted to duplicitous snake charmers because they are, well, just good marketers.

Here's the link to the recording:

https://www.youtube.com/

See you next week!

Ana I.

Duplicitous Recap Writer

50s, Icebreaker and Be Delightful - travel at the EarlyBird speed

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

TM Pam led us with interesting topics revolving around 50, the magic number.  We soon found out that...

* DTM Jim D. wants to keep the $50 bill exactly as it is, with Ulysses S. Grant in full mode time travel.

* TM Emmanuel marvels at couples who make their 50th wedding anniversary - that's what life and love is about!

* TM Jim recently experienced the 50s Golden Age of TV by streaming Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges on TM Chris's I-watch.

* TM BeckyJo plans to be a fiery redhead at the tender age of 80, vibrant and minus any pesky grays.  She Won Best Table Topics Award.

* I, Ana, don't believe in the motto Get Rich Or Die - although I've pretty much lived a comfortable life most of my life, so I'm just spoiled.

* TM Tom is glad he's past 50 because at 50 he didn't know Toastmasters or EarlyBirds and can't fathom life without them.

* TM Aleta voted multiple times for TM Pam to attend her 50th Homecoming College Reunion where everyone will recognize her without having to even wear a name badge.

And then came the prepared speeches...

* TM Paula delighted us with a descriptive self-introduction about her geographic moves and spiritual journey.  Excellent icebreaker, Paula!

* DTM Mary Helen relived her anguish at losing her handbag at the start of The Way (El Camino) but finding it thanks to the benefits of the tourism industry. She Won Best Speaker Award.

As far as evaluations go...

* TM Chris was wowed - as were we all- at TM Paula's vocabulary richness which escapes most native-born gringos.  Paula's speech encapsulated the essence of her being, the yin and yang.  She Won Best Evaluator Award.

* TM Paolo repeatedly asked DTM Mary Helen why didn't she incorporate pizza and lasagna meals on her tale of the Camino?  What happened to Italy??  Grazie Tutti, Prego!

We were seniorly confused between the (2) Jims and we swapped people's last names, but other than that, the meeting traveled smoothly.

The Word of the Day was

TRAVEL, noun

go from one place to another, over a distance of some length.

An object that moves, typically in a constant and predictable way.

Example:  To travel or to teletransport - Elon, Elon, what musk we do???

Here's the link to the recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrYDea8q0g

See you next week!  Spring Forward on Sunday March 12!

Ana I.

Recap Writer

Light Quotes, The Mighty Quinn and Pathways - a morning of prerogatives at EarlyBirds

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

TM Paula launched us off with thought-provoking phrases...

* TM Aleta finds the hilarious perspective in most things, simply because she's a hilariously perspectiveely personality.

* TM Pam agrees that there's comedy in contradictions.  She's always exactly right and her husband is always exactly wrong - and that's comedic all right. She Won Best Table Topics Award.

* I, Ana, have thought "that is a curious reaction" plenty of times in my married life and have decided to say nothing and say it often.

* TM Paolo explained that if he has said what he meant, it would simply be La vita es bellissima... la vita es bella.... la dolce vita.... and then the luce rossa stopped him.

* TM Tom said that humor is a sophisticated tool of the mind and St. Patrick's Day is coming, dear Mc Anythings.

* DTM Mary Helen has been suffering from acute language commingling syndrome, whereby Spanglish becomes PortuGerman.  Tudo ben, tudo bon.

* TM Randolph asserts that the way to tell the story is when his mind is made up, please don't confuse him with the facts.

* TM BeckyJo proposed to conduct our next EarlyBirds meeting in Portuguese to support DTM Mary Helen's linguistic derangement syndrome.

* DTM Jim D. has been contaminated by the linguistic syndrome and now thinks in Russian and counts in Croatian.  He and DTM Mary Helen are headed straight for linguistic marital counseling.

* TM Emmanuel does not want to sound too serious but cannot help it although internally he is doubled over with laughter.

And then came the prepared speeches...

* TM Tom, aka The Mighty Quinn, wonders where the lions are, but remembers that everyone's beneath the trees, feeding pigeons on a limb, and when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna run to him...  He Won Best Speaker Award.

* TM Pam motivates others to do her bidding.  From Pathways she has learned to read instructions, follow directions, end at the beginning and upload it all to the cloud.  If her reach exceeds her grasp, what's a heaven for?  (But I digress)....

As far as evaluations go...

* TM Randolph likes TM Tom's teaching style of speaking and is all for bushes covering the water treatment plant eyesore.  He Won Best Evaluator Award.

* TM Paolo commended TM Pam for her pause, projection, pitch, performance and suggested she avoid swinging in her seat.

The Word of the Day was

PREROGATIVE, noun

Right or privilege

Example:  It is our prerogative to be funny or serious, depending on our mood of the moment.

Here's the link to the recording...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRYAOz6stI

See you next week!

Ana I.

Recap Writer by right and privilege