Tall Tales at Two Hundred and Fifty

25.04.2010

The Chennai Toastmasters Club conducted its 250th Meeting today. There was a Tall Tales Contest to commemorate the day and the Past presidents of the Club were recognized. As one of the Past Presidents I queued up to receive my memento from TM Nagaraja Rao DTM.

A Few of the Tall Tales were good though the bulk of them were lackluster. Most of the youngsters were highly narcissistic and there was excessive concern about themselves and very little creativity. This meant that that most tall tales were no more than wishful thinking.

There were exceptions too. For example, the winners were both innovative and creative. Subhadra the winner gave an account about an imaginary club called Cheesemasters which her cat had attended. She used her talent in mimicry to good effect and kept the audience guessing as to how she'll interpret the Ten Projects of Toastmasters visa vis Cheese Masters.

Me. Ramnath with his extraordinary tale of becoming an attachment to his own E Mail message was a well deserving runner up. His use of Info Tech metaphors in his speech was excellent. (I Loved It)

Quotables:

The thin line of difference between genius and insanity is measured by success. (A quote by Bruce Feirstein, American Creen Writer and Humorist)

When you call someone aged to speak, remember that the length of the speech is proportional to the age and the content is inversely proportional. (Prof Chandrasekhar the first President of CTM who revived Toastmastering in Chennai...incidentally his speech was short and highly informative.0