Humorous Speech Contest

Meeting, Wednesday 26th August 2012:   

A Horse walks into a bar......

In attendance: Darlene, Simon, Geetha, Chris, Kyle, Janet, David, JF, Rueben, Kathy, Rob, Julie, Kevin, Val, and about 7000 other people who did judging and stuff....

Speeches are fun, and they can be funny. Today saw the event of CTI Techtalkers Humorous Speech Contest.

Despite the fact that we have many fun members, just two took part in the contest today. Val "The Beast" Erickson, and Simon "Teenage Brat" Jackson.

Val led off with a funny story about her husbands crappy beater of a truck, nicknamed 'The Beast" and it's role in her son's summer job debacle. Listeners were entertained and surely somewhat sympathetic of the parental plight of paying a fortune for ones offsprings failed work attempts.

Which led neatly into Simon Jackson's speech "My life as a teenager" in which Simon, with very little effort, behaved and parodied the actions of a teenage brat.

The judges, clearly convinced that Simon was a viable teenager in every way, sent him on to the next round.

Results were:
1st Place - Simon Jackson - My life as a teenager
2nd Place - Val Erickson - The Beast Slayer

Photo's to follow :)

Table Topics Contest!!

Meeting, Wednesday 19th August 2012:   

On the spot and hot to trot......Gotta be Glib to Ad Lib...

In attendance: Darlene, Simon, Geetha, Chris, Kyle, Janet, David, JF, Rueben, Kathy, Rob, Julie, Kevin, Val, and about 7000 other people who did judging and stuff....

The formal stuff out of the way, 4 people competed for the CTI Techtalkers Club. Namely Chris Hecker, Julie Wright, Rueben McIntyre, and Simon Jackson.

The question for the participants was "Which is more important, Intelligence or Common Sense?"

As a contestant myself I can't say much about the content of the speeches, because I didn't hear them. For myself I argued that 'there is no such thing as common sense, because sense seems a rare commodity'. Citing drivers on the Deerfoot among other things, I clearly convinced the judges, and thank them for sending me on to the Area contest on October 3rd, held in the SMART Technologies building!

I can ascertain  that all of our club members are great speakers and did us proud! Go CTI Techtalkers!

2nd Place in the Club Contest -Julie Wright (receiving from Contest Chair Kyle Wilson)

1st Place in the Club Contest - Simon Jackson

Farewell...it's been swell

Meeting, Wednesday 5th August 2012:   
Noses are better then glasses...1 out of 1 Engineers confirm
In attendance: Darlene, Simon, Geetha, Chris, Kyle, Janet, David, JF, Rueben, Kathy, Mahdia, Rob, Julie


Table Topics. Absences.

All things change and all things come to an end. John Galsworthy said "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."

Which sounds like my closet.

Toastmasters come, and go. and go to other clubs (Like the CIA nobody can ever really leave).

They don't all want to be an Astronaut. Or come from the Sudan. So there is in fact only one Mahdia Ibrahim, and we'll miss her.

Today's session was all about Table Topics. Darlene opened with an educational on the do's and don'ts of Table Topics, in preparation for our contest the following week.

LEARNING POINT: Always give a time for a speech. Or it ends up being 12 minutes.

After the educational, we had a mammoth table topics session, run by our own Rob Cardinal. Rob's special table topics featured props, and an odd question or ten.

The winner of the day was our very own Engineer, Rueben, who gave an eloquent description of why glasses with noses attached are much more likely to sell than plain old glasses.

Finally...those lectures at U of C paid off...

We then had a poignant farewell from Rob to Mahdia, and a return from Mahdia.

Farewell Flux Capacitor! One Small Step For Mahdia, One Giant Leap for Mahdiankind....