09-22-05 Meeting Summary

If you happened to miss this meeting you missed out on a very funny meeting
indeed!

Mike C was our toastmaster and was his usual comical self. He pointed
out some changes to our agenda then had Stacia S introduce our word of
the day.

The theme for the meeting was "life without football" and Stacia chose
"intercept" for our word of the day. She noted at the end of the meeting
that Mark H had used the word more then once during the meeting and
Mike had also used the word. She also pointed out some 'ums' that were
used by various speakers.

Laura was our first speaker and she gave her "The Rose Garden" speech.
Laura will be giving this tall tales speech on Friday September 30th at
Awada's for the Eastern Division contest. Please plan on going and
cheering her (and Eddie in the humorist speech contest) on.

Our second speaker of the day was Dave B giving his "Introduce this"
speech. Dave told us how important introductions were to speakers. He
feels there are three things that need to be accomplished in giving
introductions. The introduction needs to give credibility to the speaker,
tells the audience what they will be speaking about and grabs the audiences
attention.

Bill (or is it Bell?) S gave the table topics questions. First he
asked Kelly T how she would rate Daunte Culpepper as a quarterback.
Kelly said that she had no judgement on that since she has yet to even
watch the Vikings play this year. She did talk about her fantasy football
team and how she is doing so well with that so far.

Next Bill asked Kim C if Mike Tice is to blame for how poorly the
Vikings have been playing. Kim explained how Randy Moss had made everyone
mad at him, but she couldn't totally blame Mike Tice because she felt that
Red McCombs was more to blame as the owner of the team and Mike is just a
middle man.

Last Bill asked Laura C why it is that each year we hear so many
people saying that "This is the year that the Vikings will win the Super
Bowl!" Laura explained that it is the same way in our corporation when we
hear each year that we are going to exceed our sales goals. Its a goal
that is set for the team to try and achieve. They want to set them up for
success. However she also pointed out that the Vikings need to win games
if they are going to be able to achieve the winning of the Super Bowl!!

Gadder F was Laura's speech evaluator and Marion was Dave's speech
evaluator. Both did a great job in telling our speaker what they liked
about their speeches and good pointers as to how they can improve their
next speeches.

Eddie K was the general evaluator. Overall we had a great (and funny)
meeting.

See you soon...