16 Oct

Speakeasy Toastmasters Mallow

More tales from the Humorous Speech Competition

The fourth speech given on the night of the Humorous speech competition came from Michael Cronin who described with great humour how he went about getting a tooth implanted, in a speech called ‘Long in the tooth’. This tale involved an unexpected visit to the gynaecologist, an astronaut fantasy on the dentist’s chair, loads of blood and finally a paralysing bill – the price of six whitehead bullocks! ‘Toby’s Eulogy’ was given by Gerry O’ Callaghan, who arrived complete with small, black, coffin-shaped box, (containing poor Toby, we assume). Toby, it turned out, was a rat who had departed this life after a very full and adventurous life as a party animal, who was partial to ‘a drop’. Toby was killed by a dropped collection plate – fulfilling the prophesy that he would come in contact with money. More laughter followed with Sean Corcoran’s description of his attempt to reach his godchild’s christening on time, despite the best efforts of his brother-in-law, his injured ‘Keith Woods lookalike leg’, a wrong turn and a faulty clutch. The return home was no better as an apparently full petrol tank turned out to be running on empty. Thirteen years later Sean is still looking for the lesson to be learned from it all! The final speech of the evening came from John Dillon who shared with us a wonderfully humorous account of his attempts to understand the meaning of ‘Pen names and poetic licence’ while testing the patience of his unfortunate teacher with all of his questions. But the teacher’s annoyance was nothing to the aggravation caused to John by the hated ‘Gifford’ who knew everything including what John was ‘trying to say’.
The competition was won by Michael Cronin and in second place was Gerry O’ Callaghan. Congratulations to both and best of luck in the forthcoming Area final in Fermoy, on Tuesday, 14th October at 8:00 pm. Guests are welcome to attend.

Our next meeting is on Thursday night, 16th October and as usual, guests are very welcome to attend.
If you would like to know more about Speakeasy Toastmasters club you can ring Angela at 022 51071 or Sean at 022 22755 for information. Or you can log onto our website; www.clix.to/speakeasy. The club’s e-mail address is speakeasymallow@eircom.net