Meeting Notes from November 6, 2008
Meeting Theme: Post Election Blues (or Reds)
Word of the Day: Resolution
Toastmaster was David Trzupek and he opened with his thoughts about the election by borrowing lyrics from J Giels Band “I’ve had the blues, the reds and the pinks and as a Republican, this past election stinks!”
Dave did congratulate Barack Obama but he still wonders why if a black man from Chicago can become President of the US then why can’t the Chicago Cubs get into the World Series?
Our first speaker for the meeting were Jason Carty who gave his ice-breaker by starting out with the bold statement of “I have failed” which was not quite like Martin Luther King Jr “I have a dream” but got our attention.
Our second speaker was our club President, Mike Angell. Who inspired us all to volunteer to speak and be active in TM. He used colorful sports analogies and makes me want to run out and give a bunch of speeches.
Karen Lang and John Wierzba provided insightful, helpful and sound evaluations.
Table Topics were provided by Linda Holm and she did a great job of getting us to provide our off the cuff responses to her questions to describe the meaning of common metaphors and phrases.
Our best speaker was Mike Angell, our best evaluator was Karen Lang and our table topics best was Eric Peterson.
Thanks for a great meeting!
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