Urban Legends

With 15 members and 1 guest, we celebrated the Bisextile with an exciting meeting featuring two #2 speeches by two of our newest members. Cathy Lee guided the meeting with a rather different theme of "Urban Legends" and throughout it regaled us with some of the more interesting ones, like spiders under toilet seats and the like.

Table Topics Master Arnie Buss had three victi.. ... er members play a version of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me's "Stump the Listener" challenge. Three stories were read, and only one of them was true - the others were Urban Legends. Mary Lineberger, Carl Thormeyer, and Rosetta Ishag all tried to guess the right one, and Mary won Best Table Topics for her reasoned and well-crafted response.

The first speech was John Armstrong's #2 Bitten by the Golf Bug, which included both an informative brief history of the game and its origins, and some of the reasons he gets such pleasure from playing it. John was awarded Most Improved Speaker for his speech.

The second speech Joyce Laker giving her second speech Accountability to the Poor, a heartfelt and passionate one that persuaded us to look more closely at the plight of the poor and of the problems of poverty. Joyce won Best Speaker for this.

Speech evaluations were likewise well executed by Mike Barksdale and Zeki Yildirim, in his first evaluation. For his concrete suggestions to Joyce, Zeki was given Best Evaluator by General Evaluator ("what's this thing called?") Carl Thormeyer.

Cathy Lee tells another plausible Urban Legend, and then ponders how anyone could believe some of these things...
































John Armstrong's #2 speech, Bitten by the Golf Bug.

Joyce Laker's #2 speech Accountability to the Poor.