Communication FUNdamentals

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I scour YouTube for funny videos and keep all kinds of funny “miss steaks” so I can share them all with you each Friday for Friday Funnies.  Well, this week my son was reading a book and ran up to show me this line:

“One week from the day before the day after the yesterday that comes three weeks before six months from six weeks from now minus 49 days plus five tomorrows and a next week.”

Just to have a little fun with language/communication…who can figure out this riddle…when would this be?  Post your answers here as a comment.  Show this to your smartie pants kidlings and see if they can figure it out.

Another humor-filled Communication FUN Friday from your friends at Art of Eloquence.com!

Today is Day Five of the National Words Matter Week Contest!  In addition to posting  our blog link(s), today you have an additional way to enter and have fun with our contest!

Today’s Extra Entry:

Here are our extra entry rules for today, Friday, March 5th:

Each Friday, here at Communication FUNdamentals, we feature a video or quote or picture that illustrates miscommunication with humor.  This week, I have a funny video for you.

I’m always looking for family friendly communication humor.  Today’s extra challenge for Words Matter Week is to find some fun illustration of miscommunication.  Send your family friendly video, picture, quote or audio links to jojo@artofeloquence.com  and please put “WMW Contest” in the subject linke.  Each of these family friendly miscommunication humor segments will count as an additional entry in our contest!

Enter early and often!

The one with the most entries at midnight tonight, March 5th will win an Art of Eloquence Value Package of his/her choice!

Good luck!

For all you non techies out there!  This one’s for you!  A spoof on Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First”, but updated to the Computer Age!  This video is too funny!

Another Communication Friday Funny from your friends at Art of Eloquence.com!

Sometimes just a single word can make all the difference in your communication.

Another great Friday Funny from your friends at Art of Eloquence.com!

This video uses all the elements of a great speech.  I love the way this woman communicates!  She’s funny, energetic and gets her point across well.  Check her out!

What you can accomplish for your cause with some communication training.

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When I had my internet show, The Communication Comedy Network, I had to play several different people in a span of an hour.  I played a New York Newscaster, a Southern Roving Reporter, a British Professor and myself with a sort of California accent.  I found it difficult to switch back and forth between the accents and the accents I was doing were very different from each other.

The woman in this video is absolutely amazing!  She does 21 different accents in a span of just two minutes and 36 seconds and some of the accents present only very subtle changes.  I don’t know if the accents are 100% accurate, but I’ll tell you one thing, this lady is talented!!!  I can’t do it.  Can you?

More communication fun brought to you by your friends at Art of Eloquence.com!

What You Ought to Know is a video show on YouTube.  This one shares some tips for speaking to locals when traveling abroad.  Too funny!

Another fun way to learn about communication skills brought to you by your friends at Art of Eloquence.com

Victor Borge was a fabulously funny man and a talented pianist.  I’ve posted his bit “Phonetic Punctuation” before here on Communication FUNdamentals, but I just found this related video with Dean Martin.

The two do “Musical Phonetic Punctuation” where they punctuate the phrases of the following songs.  At least Dean Martin tries.  Victor Borge is so funny, Dean Martin has a hard time keeping a straight face!  Enjoy!

More Friday fun with communication from your friends at Art of Eloquence.com!

English is a crazy language that wound up with wounds of wisdom.  Does it sound right to you that our houses don’t have mouses?  Why can we oversee what we cannot overlook?  It seems something is not “in wack”, but fat chance trying to work it out-or would that be a slim one?

If we slow down for just a minute, we will clearly see that we cannot slow up-or keep up with the strange rules which cause a wise man not to be a wise guy.  It also doesn’t follow that we talk about gooses which are really geese, but never about mooses which are definitely not meese.

If I had my way, everything would be spelled “foneticly” and punctuating a crazy man would just be Crazy, Man! I also think we have far “tu” many “leters” in the “alfabet!”  Additionally I teach my kids that, if you were to “member” correctly in the first place, you’d never have to remember in the second place.

To make a long story “much more” longer, I think I’d like to redo the entire “Inglish” language so it made a great deal more “cents.”  Don’t “yu” “agre?”

A little language levity from the folks at Art of Eloquence.com!

Since this is Friday Funnies here on Communication FUNdamentals, I’ve posted this funny Christmas video that I just have to include each year.  It’s Straight No Chaser’s 12 Days of Christmas:  Too funny!

Merry CHRISTmas from your friends at Art of Eloquence.com!