Dear Members, Friends and Guests,
TM Marie inspired us to be a blessing to others in 2024.
TM Chris got us thinking about New Year's Eve-related topics, and we soon realized that...
* TM Terri's marriage began -like many of ours- one enchanted evening with champagne and strawberries... and ended with "See you in court!"
* I, Ana, have been blessed with a challenging and rewarding 2023 during which life has been fully in session.
* TM Pam concludes that life goes faster and faster, so 2024 is bound to pass with breaknecking speed as she unclutters. She Won Best Table Topics Award.
* TM Ricardo will spend New Year's Eve in Villa Paramacito, where there's nothing to do except maybe jump in the river. His sisters and he will surely take the town by storm!
* TM Jim G. avoids New Year resolutions because they have never, ever, ever, even once, come to fruition. He's planning to celebrate a 2-month wet birthday in January and February!
* TM BeckyJo is a fiery person who grew up in Canada thinking the fireworks on July 1st were specifically dedicated to her birthday. Ah... sweet bird of innocence...
* TM Marie reminisced about Guy Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne which, to her, means let bygones be bygones and move on, people!
Along came prepared speeches...
* TM Aleta likened Toastmasters with a healthy nutrition plan: breakfast of kings, lunch of princes, dinner of paupers. It helps us navigate the complexities of bumfuzzled simplicity and marks a beginning where there's an end. She Won Best Speaker Award.
* TM Tom brought us into the world of boxing, where scarface Teddy Atlas was betrayed by Mike Tyson and fired by Cus D'Amato in the Catskills of NY where Dirty Dancing proved that without fear we can't be brave.
As far as evaluations are concerned...
* TM Marie was awed by TM Aleta's remarkable capacity to make a teambuilding speech entertaining and... teambuilding!
* TM Jim G. marveled at the fact that TM Tom explained clearly -and facing the camera- how Teddy Atlas's throat scar is a symbol of a bumfuzzled childhood but Teddy was clearheaded when it came to 15-year-old Tyson's sexual advances to Teddy's 11-year-old niece. Jim won Best Evaluator Award.
The Word of the Day was
BUMFUZZLE, verb
Confuse, perplex, fluster
Example: Teddy Atlas was not bumfuzzled when it came to 15-year-old Tyson's sexual advances to Teddy's 11-year-old niece and put a gun to his temple, pure and simple.
See you next week!
Ana I.
Bumfuzzled Recap Writer
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