Meeting 910 "Comics & Cartoons"

Liz We, Jennine & Harry with Edison

We had a special visitor at our last meeting. Harry and Jennine brought baby Edison to meet us. He was soon surrounded by admirers.

Liz Wo, Maureen, Trish & Jenine with Edison

It was also good to welcome Terry back from his extended trip overseas. Terry brought his neighbour Marlene D to see what a Toastmasters meeting is like. Another guest was Josh, who attended for the first time.

The word for the evening was "Innovation," chosen by Maureen. A few people remembered to use it during the meeting.

New member Pam presented the Round Robin and asked who was our favourite cartoon or comic character. 

Peter had brought along some large copies of cartoon pictures and used them for his Table Topics. They were answered by John S, Liz We, Terry and Sharyn.

Liz We

John S

The Table Topics were evaluated by Jonathon.

An innovative session was presented by Joke Master Sharyn. She gave everyone two slips of paper, with a riddle printed on one and the answer to a different riddle on the other. We were challenged to read out the riddle, with someone else supplying the appropriate answer - with dramatic actions.

Jokemaster Sharyn

Nicole's raffle was a bag of goodies, including a desk calender, jigsaw and Christmas headgear.

  Our guest, Marlene D drew the raffle and was very surprised when she pulled out her own number.

Nicole also filled in as Time Keeper and Cashier.

Nicole

Speeches were presented by Dave, who told us many amazing facts about water, and John T, who told us why watching too much news is bad for us.

Dave

John T

Trish presented a technical speech about Social Media.

Trish

Jonathon cleverly intergrated two jokes about a woman with twins, but didn't get to the punch line, which made it funnier. He was able to complete the joke later.

John

Grammarian Liz We commented on the Ums and Aahs and Liz Wo evaluated the entire meeting.

Liz Wo

The evening's awards went to Marlene H (Best Contribution,) John T (Best Speech,) Sharyn ( Best Table Topic,) Pam (Personal Best,) and Jonathon (Best Evaluation.)

Because there are 5 Tuesdays in this month, it will be an extra week till our next meeting on the 12th November.

Don't forget the Semi Annual Conference at the Eventide Auditorium next Saturday, 2nd October. 8 am - 4 pm. Come and support our contestants. 

Meeting 909 "Post Holiday Blues."

Peter

"Bula Fiji!" was the title of Peter's speech. Peter had just returned from a trip to Fiji the morning of the meeting. Audience participation was a strong point of Peters speech, with everyone learning to say "Bula Fiji!" 

Bula Fuji!

Annette

 


Even Evaluator Annette got into the act.

Liz We

Del

To immunise or not to immunise? Liz We presented a persuasive speech about the Pros and Cons of immunisation.  Evaluator Del offered some encouraging advice to Liz..



Trish demonstrated how to use our club's new projector and the mistakes some people make when making a presentation.

Trish

Other highlights of the meeting were -

The induction of new member Pam. Pam is already working on her Icebreaker. 

Inge

Round Robin. Inge asked, if we had a friend holidaying with us, where would we take them to show them our city or local area?

Some of the suggestions were South Bank,  Lone Pine, the City Cat ferry, St Bernards at Mt Tamborine, Shorncliffe Moora Park, Riverside Markets, The Gabba, the Hop On Hop Off Bus. etc.

Table Topics. Maureen had some thought provoking questions for Inge, Leesa, Jim and Ron.
The Table topics were evaluated by Nicole.

Leesa & Maureen

Nicole

Jim's raffle (a bottle of Scotch) was popular.

JIm

There was a lot to discuss during the business session, which was chaired by Sharyn  eg the Area Conference on the 5th November, and whether the club should buy a computer and a microphone.
Timekeeper Amanda was asked for an extension of time.

Grammarian Liz Wo commented on the use of descriptive words used during the meeting, particularly in the speeches and Dave presented a General Evaluation of the entire evening.

Dave

Awards for the evening went to Nick (Personal Best,) Peter (Best Speech,) Annette (Best Evaluation,) Jonathon (Best Contribution,) and Ron (Best Table Topic.)

Award winners 8 Oct 13