Dear Members, Friends and Guests,
In honor of our late DTM Kip, TM Pam did a Universalist Unitarian Halloweenish invocation that got us right in the mood.
DTM Mary Helen is preparing us for upcoming contests by providing us with 2-word topics. We found out that..
* TM Marie loves so-called holiday savings, recently on Prime Day her husband stocked up on grass-fed, prime t-bones to be cooked with some obscure kitchen utensils I have not heard of before.
* I, Ana, have experienced a few second chances and have more than likely missed quite a few, but I'm on alert for future ones to come.
* TM Emmanuel is keenly aware that time starts ticking the minute we exit Mom's womb and is determined not to miss a minute of it! He Won Best Table Topics Award.
* TM Jose consults Saint Google (officially canonized in Spain) to make a tortilla, to walk The Camino, and he originally thought the name was dumb. Who would have thunk?? Spanish citizens are ready to revolt at the prospect of a St. Google taxation without representation.
* TM Randolph is trying to teach his daughter to press the dishwasher button after loading. (Note: daughter is pushing 30, but she's making progress).
* TM BeckyJo gets helpful tips from crime movies, and exerts gentle pressure on a victim's elbow or hand fingers to make them compliant. She's losing patience so straight marching orders are best.
* TM Paolo recalls his first time as a Table Topic speaker, an unforgettable disaster that motivated him to become an accomplished adrenalin-filled impromptu speaker.
* TM The Tom asks "What? What?" when asked to remind someone of something. Who can remember anything anymore??
* DTM Jim D.'s most frequent plea is "Forgive me! Forgive me!" - it's much easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission - motion is usually NOT granted.
* TM Pam and her husband mark their glass door to the garage with dry erase markers and then cannot even figure out who, out of the two, wrote it or what for. One example is "ANTS". Huh????
We were in for two outstanding prepared speeches.
* TM Ricardo delighted us with an educational speech about his trip with his sisters down the MIdi Canal, built by Louis XIV, who took 2 baths in his life and was surprisingly NOT decapitated - no one could get close enough to him with the smell. He used great visuals of the canal views. More to come!
* TM Aleta recited the Cremation of Sam McGee, who from Tennessee had the not-so-great idea to go gold prospecting in the Yukon, where he happily welcomed being cremated in a warm furnace instead of spending one more second in the freezing cold. She Won Best Speaker Award.
As far as evaluations go...
* TM Paolo thoroughly enjoyed TM Ricardo's educational speech and is currently booking a canal cruise by gondola in Italy. He's already got the Captain's hat as a prop. He Won Best Evaluator Award.
* TM Randolph marvels at TM Aleta's capacity to make such great eye contact by looking straight at the camera.
The Words of the Day were
ANECDOTE, noun
A short or amusing story about a real person or incident.
ANTIDOTE, noun
A medicine taken or given to counteract a poison
Example: A good anecdote about a headless mouse is the best antidote against early morning somnolence. It awakens your senses IPSO FACTO (look it up in Saint Google)
Our dates for Evaluations/Table Topics and THE OTHER contest (following today's theme, I can't remember contest of what) have been set for November 30 and December 14.
Stay tuned and get more dry erase markers for murky Notes To Self.
Here's the link to the recording.
See you next week!
Ana I.
Recap Writer
