Monday, April 4, 2022

The last straw is the straw that breaks the camel’s back

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                                    Idioms sometimes have changed significantly. The Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms ...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Donald Trump told us a fairy tale about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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                                  On March 31, 2022 Donald J. Trump made the following statement : ...
Friday, April 1, 2022

Can monkeys buy you happiness?

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                                                      On March 21, 2022 Doug Savage published the Savage Chickens cartoo...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Don’t start an article with a tired old statistic and joke

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                          At Training on March 7, 2022 there is a decent article by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts titled Fro...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Chain or round-robin storytelling for Table Topics at Toastmasters club meetings

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                          One format for conducting Table Topics , the impromptu speaking portion of a Toastmasters club...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

The United States only ranked #16 in the 2022 World Happiness Report, while Finland was #1 for the fifth year in a row

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                                    Last week was the tenth anniversary of the World Happiness Report . It uses survey da...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Three tips or pitfalls for group presentations

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                          Yesterday I blogged about Group (and hopefully team) presentations . As some infomercials say ...