Activities for the Fall Harvest Season – Speech Our 5 to 7 minute contribution to the Hilarity Harvest No-Contest Toastmaster affair back in October 30, 2018. For this speech, we researched to find a few of the more common activities people partake in the fall/Halloween season. Then we envisioned ourself partaking in such activities as an out...
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What Is Funny – Speech
Philosophy of Funny, aka Humor Gets a Bad Rap When people are asked what’s important in their lives, they often mention humor. Sense of humor nears the top of the most wanted traits couples want most in a partner. Since ancient times, over 3,000 years, philosophers have claimed dominion over all that is important in life, but...
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What IS Funny These table topic questions below accompany our speech: Philosophy of Humor. According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s, Philosophy of Humor, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humor/ ‘When people are asked what’s important in their lives, they often mention humor. Couples listing the traits they prize in their spouses usually put “sense of humor” at or near the top. Philosophers...
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You never know when or where the funny bone will strike, so keep your notebook close and pen handy. This joke occurred to me while watching Rise of the Robots on Netflix. notice the effect of the 3-part speech or triangle applies to all types of story, speech, story, tale any topic, especially a good joke. Start out...
Continue reading...Mother’s Love – Table Topic for Mother’s Day
Motherly Love is a specific kind of altruistic love, an emotion traditionally assigned only to Mothers. Humans never outgrow the need for a Mother’s love. A child should never feel as if they need to earn a mother’s love…but…Mother’s unconditional love is not an instinctive thing. In fact, it’s a 50/50 crap shoot whether we get a...
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What is the purpose of the Joke Master? Officially: The Joke Master role gives members the opportunity to warm up the meeting with humor The JM explains to visitors and guests what a joke-master does Crafts jokes to coincide with the meeting Theme “Mindset” Experience how and when to insert humor into meetings Tell a 2 minute...
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“The Ugly Duckling” story written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1843, about the child of a swan whose egg accidentally rolled into a duck’s nest. As a result, the swan is raised as a duckling in a community of ducks. The story is an “Odd Man Out” tale of life as a person who differs from other...
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Table topic question. What is the most dangerous toy you received as a gift on Christmas? Christmas was a clothing, back to school supply fest for me, but dad was always bringing home age inappropriate toys and mom expected us to be smart. We knew our way around a few smashed fingers and the sting of Mercurochrome...
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This is the story of our little toy poodle named Puppy and how she became known as Bear Bait. In the year 1988 we purchased a camper van fully contained and we hit the road running. Around the same time we bought the van, Puppy came into our lives. She turned out to be a super friendly...
Continue reading...National Absurdity Day – Table Topics
Table Topics to Ponder Absurdism definition is – a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that the search for order brings the individual into conflict with the chaotic and irrational universe. In comedy, Absurdity is farce. Nonsense. Non sequitors: friends are like potatoes, if you eat them, they die Where...
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