FW: Rollin On and news from Taiwan

 

Tuesday night was another red letter day for we heard Olivia's Ice Breaker, congrats Olivia. That's two Ice breakers in two weeks [obviously not both from Olivia], but I don't think it will be a hat trick [three in a row]. There was yet another first timer when TimH presented his  educational - the first of many. We welcomed Ben who is holidaying in Rangiora from his home in Taiwan.

Sgt Ray who is settling well into the role gave us his usual cheery opening, and T/m TimR conducted a bright and breezy 'best night of the week'

I misheard the title of Olivia's speech I thought she was in a role. It all became obvious pretty quickly.  Erika steamed [giving way to diesel and diesel-electric] into the second speech, [hope it's not your Rga swan song Erika], with the awe inspiring task of developing an abstract concept. She held our attention with her Railways theme.

Body language was the buzz word for TimH's educational with examples thrown in, I was nearly thrown to the ground when we had to do a test stance for him.

TTM AND TTE was DaveY's dual role, proving that men can multi task. His topics were rather wordy however, some of which I'm sure were of his own invention.

Diaphanous - Ellie. Something about a gold pin up the bum. But no word that Dia was a Welshman.

Ringhals - according to Ray were the poor relations from Lord of the Rings -  sdrawkcab is backwards backwards, I'm not sure how relevant that is Ray.

Paestom - Chris stated the obvious that paestrom can only be a Rangiora Cake Decoration or made up by Dave.

Intaglio Pam, again them pesky ringhals got into the act, but I can't remember how or when

Fissiplerous - Gerry - this word was a blatent invention by our ttm/tte there aint no such word.

Shibboleth - Ben obviously was influenced by the Taiwanese/English - English/Taiwanese dictionary but to sum up his explanation - single chivalry - married shibboleth. Ben followed up table topics by a run down on Taiwanese Toastmasters.  After the necessary and enlightening evaluations we absqatulated.  See you all next week. Gerry 

ps Every one of Dave's words were queried by my [American] spell checker. Who is right and who is wrong - surely Bill Gates can't be wrong Dave? So you must have invented the words!!!