October 25, 2012 Theme: Spooky Halloween

SPOOKY HALLOWEEN

With over half of those in attendance sporting fantastic Halloween costumes, the Linguists of Listowel got together for another fun filled evening.

The meeting was called to order by one of our witches for the evening, Marie.  With potions brewing and spell casting, she welcomed everyone and introduced our chair for the evening, Apryl.   While the smoke from the cauldron slowly rose to the ceiling, I wondered if the smoke alarm was going to go off.

Apryl gave her opening remarks on the theme for the evening which was "Spooky Halloween".  It is worth noting that this is the first time that I have heard a Mime speak.  Guest Introductions were done and Agenda Changes made.  There was only one change and that was the addition of Marie as speech evaluator.

To officially kick of the rest of the evening, everyone in costume paraded around the room.  Ballots were then filled out by everyone to vote on the best costume.  The results would be announced later that evening.

Our Ghost of Crossing Guards Past, Val, was next with the joke of the day.  Our Terminator look-a-like, (I am hoping that I have this correct) Keith, was next as our Toast and Timer.  Wearing a dress and a little heavy on the eye shadow, Tony, the Grammarian and Laugh Counter, gave us the word of the evening.  This evening, the word was "petrify", to frighten someone so that they are unable to move.  The Literary Corner role was filled by John.

We had two speeches this evening.  Up first was Heidi who read/performed a play titled "Sandra on Sports".  The Cast in the Hat, Jill was next with her speech "Tips on Public Speaking".  Written evaluations were done after each speech.

Brent dressed up as Allan from the movie "The Hangover" was this evening's Table Topics master.  He also could have passed as Al Borland from the TV series Home Improvements.  When it was their turn, Brent had each person take a slip of paper from an envelope with a Halloween related question.  Like usual, Table Topics is always full of laughs.

Audrey, AKA Dolly Dingling, was our general evaluator.  She first asked for the witches to give their evaluations on the speeches.  The first witch, Jane, evaluated Heidi while the second witch, Marie, evaluated Jill.  Next, Audrey asked for the general reports from the Timer, Grammarian and Table Topics.  The word of the evening was used five times.  As well, there were 68 laughs, 7 Xeroxes (repetitions) and 16 um's and ah's.  The winner for Table Topics was our guest Tracey.  Audrey finished her section by giving her general report on the meeting.

Next, the prize was awarded for the best costume.  Audrey was the winner.   Drawing to a close, Anything for the Good of Toastmasters was next.  Afterwards we asked our guest for any comments of what she thought of the meeting.  Sharon provided us with her Quiz Master's Report.

Apryl officially ended the meeting with a few closing remarks.