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To: NicknamedBob; sionnsar; fanfan; Monkey Face

23 balmy degrees, no snow or ice. I heard at the speech tournament Tom’s doing that the schools from Asheville couldn’t get here because of snow.

Tom’s efforts are going well, I think, comparable with some of the other competitors I’ve seen. I had to keep taking Frank out to the halls because he wanted to yell, “Bub, bub, Bubba!” while people were reading. Once I had to let him bite my finger with his two pointy teeth to keep him quite for a few minutes ;-).

Tom has three more rounds tomorrow, and eventually we’ll find out if he’ll be in semifinals. Since I don’t know how many people that includes, I don’t know what the chances are.


483 posted on 01/08/2010 5:35:10 PM PST by Tax-chick (Spend it while you can, money's contraband. You can't take it with you when you go.)
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To: Tax-chick

Good for Tom.

And Frank doing the mock Bubba thing? Priceless.

Good luck Tom!


486 posted on 01/08/2010 5:54:26 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face
I heard at the speech tournament

Speech tournament? Aiiiieeee....

Never heard of such a thing (though I know of Toastmasters).

Methinks maybe it's time to consider retirement if we're raising a crop of young bucks like that! It wasn't very many years ago that I reached the point where I could get up in front of a group of strangers -- to talk about material they want to hear and which I know pretty well.

487 posted on 01/08/2010 5:56:12 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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