Sandgate Toastmasters

Historic Events Theme 

Lenore and Bing made a special effort by dressing as convicts in keeping with the Historical theme of the evening. 

Wordmaster

Doug introduced the word, "shibboleth," which he explained is an old Hebrew word for an ear of corn or a stream in flood. In an Old Testament story, Jepthah had used the word "shibboleth" to tell the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. Ephraimites could not pronounce the "ph" sound correctly and revealed their true identity when they tried to say the word. Nowadays, the word "shibboleth"  is used to describe a secret test word, or a mispronounciation that reveals a persons origns.

Quote

 Lenore gave us the origns of several well known sayings, eg.  "From the horse's mouth" comes from the practice of telling a horse's age by the condition of it's teeth. It was considered bad manners to check the age af a horse that was a gift, hence "to look a gift horse in the mouth." 
"In the limelight" comes from the old system of burning gas or lime to produce lighting. "Curtains " and "Top Billing" also come from theatrical terms.
A "pig in a poke" comes from the practice of buying a pig concealed in a bag, not knowing if it was a real pig or a stray cat. This was revealed when the buyer got home and "let the cat out of the bag." He also might have discovered he had "been sold a pup."

Round Robin

 Marlene asked, "Out of all the Toastmasters Speeches you have heard, which one do you remember the most?" This caused a lot of reminiscing. The most memorable speeches were the ones that used humour, vivid word pictures, or touched the emotions.
 

Table Topics

 Liz chose Nursery Rhymes - with a modern twist...

1."Has medical science gone too far? Mary had a little lamb." 

2. "Prozac - Old King Cole was a merry old soul." 

3. "Pensioner cruelty to animals - Old Mother Hubbard."

4. "Housing shortage - There was an old woman who lived in a shoe." 

5. "Bizarre rural practices - Three blind mice." 

6. "Solution to bird plague - Sing a song of sixpence."
 

Famous Person Review

Annette told about an Australian bushranger, Captain Moonlight, who was actually a preacher by the name of George Scott. 
 

Speeches

1. "What's in the package?" It was the 5th speech (Vocal Variety) in the "Communication and Leadership Manual." Del used vocal variety well to describe her surprise and pleasure on recieving a package in the mail.

2."A New Direction." (Speech 6, Working with Words.) Narda chose her words well to tell about her new interest - Goldfish!

3."A Rough and Bloody Trail" Garth painted vivid word pictures in his speech about  diamonds.

Awards

Best Speech: Garth
Best Evaluator: Trish
Table Topics: Penne
Best Toastmaster: A triple tie - Monica, Doug and Lenore!
Encouragement Award: Del
Raffle (a meat tray, donated by Joyce): Monica
 
 

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