Whether you're standing behind a podium facing
thousands or behind the barbecue grill facing your
family, you'll move, amuse, and motivate with the
same skills.
Read speakers' books to cull quotations, pull pearls
of wisdom, and get gems to tickle their funny bones.
Find a few bon mots to let casually slide off your
tongue on chosen occasions. If you want to be notable,
dream up a crazy quotable.
Make 'em rhyme, make 'em clever, or make 'em
funny. Above all, make 'em relevant.Naturally I got a pretty swollen head over this performance
and fancied myself an eminent poetry reader. I decided to reward
the passengers on the next cruise (which was a cruise to the
Caribbean and didn't go anywhere in the neighborhood of
England) with my spectacular reading of the English love poems.
WHAT A BOMB! Passengers avoided me on the deck for the rest
of the cruise. "How did you bore me? Let me count the ways."