Humorous Speaking and Table Topics Contest
Last week saw a special meeting of the club – an annual contest. Actually, there were two contests – one for humorous speaking, the other for table topics.
The humorous speaking contest was, well, amusing. It had me laughing out loud. We had Pravin, Steve and Amanda, all on form with their funny stories. There seemed to be a rough theme emerging of love, blind dates and mechanical break-downs. Pravin’s story of a honeymoon watermelon car crash has to be heard to be believed.
It was also a chance for everyone to give a brief “30 seconds” table topic – on public holidays, and whether or not we should have more of them.
That was the main table topic – public holidays. It being a contest, each table topic speaker spoke on the same topic, but they had the advantage of knowing in advance they would be speaking, and were asked to wait outside the hall, so they couldn’t hear their competitors.
As Sergeant at Arms, it was my job to call each TT speaker in turn, as the judges evaluated the previous speech.
I opened the evening with a confessional. I’d intended to buy the address “www.publicspeaking.co.uk” for this site. Instead, I mistyped it and ended up with pubicspeaking.co.uk! Oh well, at least it’s memorable…
