Table Topics: Memories

by Anna Shumeko

(Anna was the Table Topics Master for the first time on December 8, 2011. This is what she prepared.)

Word Of The Day

The word of the day is “impressions”. Members who don't use this word when talking about the topic are fined 50 cents. Guests are exempt.

Timing

This meeting had 29 attendees including 5 guests. To speed up Table Topics, each participant got between 20-40 seconds to speak instead of the usual 30-60 seconds.

The Topics

Attendees randomly draw a slip from an envelope. Here are the topics:

1. Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
2. A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
3. Every man's memory is his private literature.
4. Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
5. Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
6. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
7. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
8. I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
9. Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
10. It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price.
11. There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.
12. If you are speaking the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
13. Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
14. We don’t remember days; we remember moments.
15. Memory feeds imagination.
16. A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
17. Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
18. Don’t count the years-count the memories.
19. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
20. Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
21. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
22. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
23. We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
24. Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose
25. The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories
26. Life gives us brief moments with another...but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that last a life time...
27. Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday.
28. Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
29. The first Christmas in a new home always brings back memories.
30. We always remember the first car we ever owned, and the independence of being able to drive.
31. We always remember to make a shopping list, but not always to bring the list to the store.
32. There is usually one high school teacher we remember by name, and the influence the teacher had on the students.
33. When we hear our favourite song played, it brings memories to mind.
34. When we meet a famous person, we remember the moment.

Winner

Attendees vote for who spoke best. Dave got the ribbon.

Anna joined Goodyear Toastmasters in April 2011 and was Table Topics Master for the first time.