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| Marlene |
The vagaries of the English language provided entertainment at the meeting. Toastmaster of the evening Marlene gave some examples of Spoonerisms and Malaprops.
We had three guests, Paul, James and Tami.
Word Master Jean S chose the word "desist," meaning "to stop doing something, cease or abstain."
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| Jean |
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| Dave |
Dave was Round Robin Master and asked us for a favourite word or phrase.
A few of them were "chocolate," "celebrate," " philosophy," " immune," " Mississippi," " Daddy, " "risk it for the biscuit" "wisdom doesn't grow on whiskers" "Carpe Deum." etc.
Pam had Table Topics for Jean, Nick and Jim. She described scenarios and asked "What would you say..."
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| Pam |
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| Jean |
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| Nick |
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| Jim |
Harry had topics for Liz, John T and Rosanne.
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| Harry |
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| Liz |
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| John |
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| Rosanne |
The Table Topics were evaluated by Annette.
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| Annette |
Reza's speech "Wandalust" was evaluated by Peter.
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| Reza |
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| Peter |
Nicole evaluated Amanda's speech about white lies.
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| Amanda |
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| Nicole |
Tim's speech "Get to the Point" was evaluated by Trish.
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| Tim |
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| Trish |
An Educational Session on Goal Setting was presented by John T.
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| John T |
Time Keeper Rosanne announced that we were running overtime.
Grammarian Sharyn reported on our use of language during the evening.
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| Sharyn |
Dave's raffle was two scarves made by his wife Sandy.
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| Dave |
They were won with great enthusiasm by Trish and Sharyn.
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| Raffle prize for Trih |
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| Sharyn ran for her prize |
Rose
The General Evaluator was Rose.
President Nicole presented Jean with her new member badge.
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| Badge for Jean |
The evenings awards went to Trish (Best Evaluator,) John T (Best Table Topic,) Amanda (Best Speech,) Jean (Personal Best,) and Marlene (Best Contribution.)
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| Winners 26 May 2015 |
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