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.