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Today was the last meeting of the year for our local Toastmasters club. The theme was inevitably Christmassy.

I gave a speech on the unexpected difficulty of finding somebody with a 25th of December birthday. (Jesus wasn't really born on Christmas Day. Isaac Newton was, but due to calendar reform his birthday is now in January. Humphrey Bogart's official bio said he was born on Christmas Day, but we all know about 1940s movie star bios. Sissy Spacek - whoops, out of time. Happy holidays, everyone!)


While we're on the subject, I see that once again I've been behind on reporting Toastmasters events. ( Read more... )