Sorry for the 2nd email… I forgot one:
like a bat out of hell
Moving extremely fast, as in She ran down the street like a bat out of hell.
This expression presumably alludes to the rapid darting movement of bats and,
Charles Earle Funk theorized, their avoidance of such light as might be cast by
the fires of hell.
Toastmasters,
I’ve always said the part of our meeting that challenges me the most is Table
Topics. I have struggled with both ideas for the session when I am Master of
the segment as well as when asked to participate. This past week I made an
attempt to connect the “concise” theme to the concise TT part of the meeting…
albeit one that did not go over too well!
Table topics is meant to challenge us, even if our life experiences do not
connect with the challenge, our job as Toastmasters is to respond with
something … from whatever we are given to work with. In the case of being
stumped and drawing a complete blank remember that any other thing in your head
that you can put order to is a fitting response!
The only TRUE goal for Table Topics is to speak for 1-2 minutes without time to
prepare. To think on our feet!
*To enlighten others that might not have been familiar with the phrases that
were given, please read on!
Spitting image is the usual modern form of the idiom meaning exact likeness,
duplicate, or counterpart. The original phrase was spit and image, inspired by
the Biblical God's use of spit and mud to create Adam in his image. But
spitting image has been far more common than spit and image for over a century.
The phrase 'A Drop in the Bucket' refers to a very small or unimportant amount.
Example of Use: “What we were paid for our work was a drop in the bucket
compared to what the company earned.”
When a fact or opinion is neither here nor there, it is not important. Words
that have the same meaning (synonyms) of neither here nor there are
unimportant, inconsequential, irrelevant and immaterial
*Like the Skin on a grape: the only one I wasn’t able to confirm with a
technical definition. Jonathan played this one well despite being unfamiliar
with the phrase.
Humbly,
Lori High
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<frtm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:frtm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Behalf Of
Alan Wong
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 11:55 AM
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Subject: FRTM - Re: Don't miss tonight's concise challenge followed by a
storytelling workshop
How exciting. Looking forward to tonight.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 11:19 AM Kathleen Jewby <kjewby@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kjewby@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hello Toastmasters,
Tonight is going to have a few innovations for the meeting and great education
from Dirk's storytelling workshop.
Be sure to find out who will win the concise challenge!
There are awards for the best speaker, evaluator, and table topics, but what
about the people who come and blow us away with their role? Tonight, they have
a chance to win an award for packing the most bang for their buck with the
Concise Challenge. The winner will be the participant who speaks with the most
power using the least amount of words and stays within their time limit to
introduce themselves and complete their role. How concise can you be?
Roles – Concise Contestants highlighted in blue
Grammarian: Jeff Stoll*
Timer/Joker: Pattie Apple*
Inspiration: Isaac Ramirez*
Ah Counter: Jonathan Kolber*
Speaker 1: Alan Wong
Evaluator 1: Jennifer Dunne
Table Topics Master: Lori High – ten minutes
General Evaluator: Ray Pezolt – ten minutes
Greeter: Luis Estrada
Toastmaster: Kathleen Jewby
*Timer light will go off with the following times:
Immediately – there is no minimum so long as the objective of the role is met.
30 seconds
1 minute – there is a two-second buffer before disqualification.
Thank you,
Kathleen
