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11. You got off easy.

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Reply #10)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 07:37 PM

Mar 2019

My daughter has no intention of letting me off the hook.

She's getting married in some castle her sister picked out for her in the Taunus-Weinberg region north of Frankfurt, so if I blow it, there's a dungeon on the premises for wedding speakers who bomb........

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Sometimes, you get asked to give speeches in public. Some are more intimidating than others. [View all] DFW Mar 2019 OP

Congratulations, my dear DFW! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2019 #1

Just say what's in your heart, that's all they'll expect bigbrother05 Mar 2019 #2

But I don't HAVE 5 hours......... DFW Mar 2019 #3

Yea, editing will be the real problem bigbrother05 Mar 2019 #4

My advice (as a trained speaker): lastlib Mar 2019 #5

One and three--no problem. Number two--ahh, there's the rub DFW Mar 2019 #8

Your first line could be Danascot Mar 2019 #6

I don't have the experience you do Dyedinthewoolliberal Mar 2019 #7

I like the scissors bit DFW Mar 2019 #9

I have been the father of two brides at their weddings, Lionel Mandrake Mar 2019 #10

You got off easy. DFW Mar 2019 #11

Well, as Nietzsche said, Lionel Mandrake Mar 2019 #12

I'm not worrried about becoming staerker DFW Mar 2019 #21

Stage fright won't kill you. Lionel Mandrake Mar 2019 #32

I suggest you give the speech in idiomatic Lithuanian or the Finno-Ugric language Seto. NNadir Mar 2019 #13

I didn't have to give a speech to Ford DFW Mar 2019 #15

Well, don't feel bad. I once shook hands with Richard Nixon. NNadir Mar 2019 #17

I never met Nixon, but my dad knew him well DFW Mar 2019 #18

Did they have most pits back then? TexasTowelie Mar 2019 #31

Will this be in Germany? Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2019 #14

Yes, at a castle in a wine-producing area north of Frankfurt DFW Mar 2019 #16

I know a little german Heddi Mar 2019 #19

"For all the good, and for all the bad," gratuitous Mar 2019 #20

I'm pretty sure the "mate" in question wouldn't have it any other way DFW Mar 2019 #22

Lovely gratuitous Mar 2019 #23

I'll let her and her man fret over the wedding vows DFW Mar 2019 #30

Definitely throw in an anecdote or two about.... MicaelS Mar 2019 #24

I had planned on a little of that, but she'll disown me if I spend any time on it. DFW Mar 2019 #25

Yes, you can easily over do that. MicaelS Mar 2019 #26

I stopped counting DFW Mar 2019 #27

Best wishes to you and your family. MicaelS Mar 2019 #28

Thanks for that! DFW Mar 2019 #29