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Slinky Commercial 1962:

We loved Slinkies even though they had no technology whatsoever!

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New Telephone Inventions of the early 1960s:

Pretty high tech for 50yrs ago…and notice the quality of the commercial. LOL

Share something from the year you were born!

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People do it all the time, don’t they?  Did anyone ever do it to you?  Recently?  How about a service provider?  I remember having a local cable company in California that was incredibly inept.  It took them eight months to properly install our cable.  I should have known something was amiss right then.  Unfortunately, they were the only game in town.

Every time we’d call to report a problem, they would tell us it was our fault.  They once told us it was our fault that they didn’t install the equipment correctly!  After all, they couldn’t reach us by phone because they hadn’t installed it yet!

Sometimes the blame game is a communication tactic.  A survey done several years ago showed that less than half of people thought they communicated well. However, they thought only 29% of other people did!

Have you ever had someone blame you for something they did?  Share your personal or customer nonservice story here!

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Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary. 

I never said most of the things I said.

If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ‘em.

Add yours here!

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According to Merriam Webster, a limerick is

“a light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet with a rhyme scheme of aabba”

Here is a limerick I wrote:

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There once was a very shy girl

Who grew up and gave speaking a whirl

She liked it so much

She deveoloped her touch

And now they say “Attagirl!”

Your turn!

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His focus has changed since becoming the presumptive nominee.  He’s now focusing on conservative issues vs President Obama’s record instead of spending his time attacking the other Republican candidates.  The other candidates are getting behind him and that is unifying the party.  Further, Romney has learned a few things about being a good speaker in the last few months.

In this speech, his timing was good.  He hit all the major issues Republicans are concerned about.  He sounded and looked presidential.  He was gracious and uplifting.  While he didn’t sound like Ronald Reagan using wit and humor, he did sound and look remeniscent of Reagan in his uplifting view of hope for the country.  I also think he was rather humble by concentrating his speech on what the American people want and need instead of his qualifications.  He talked more about what he’ll do and not who he is.

What do you all think?

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While going through my email files, I found the following quote:

“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.” ~William Shakespeare

Shakespeare packs quite a lot into this one line and I thought it so profound that I wanted to dissect it to get the full impact of what he is saying here.

Shakespeare says that conversation should be pleasant without scurrility.  Scurrility is abusive language or a rude remark. This is quite unique today with the invention of electronic communication such as you are reading here.  More and more I see people who feel free or even justified to be rude just because they don’t have to look their victim in the eye as they do it.

Next he says conversation should be witty without affectation. Affectation means a speech that is not natural for you.  It is natural to want to put your best foot forward when we present ourselves to others but it is important that we don’t change who God made us to fit that bill.  I’m a goofball.  It comes naturally.  I goof around with language when I write and speak.  It’s natural for me.  If I were to try to be some Serious Sally, you might feel like I was putting on airs.  In fact, I have a story to tell you about that.

Way back when I first started writing communication studies, my husband was in charge of editing my work.  He doesn’t write the way I do.  He’s got a fabulous sense of humor, but he doesn’t write that way.  His style is more formal and polished.  After reading over his changes, I remember thinking it sounded like I swallowed a dictionary!  I took it back to him and said, “Lighten up, Francis!”  (from a line in a movie)

God gave each of us a unique perspective.  Nobody wants to read what you think someone else would say.  They want to know what YOU think.

Next Shakespeare says we should be free without indecency.  Free speech should not be so free that we compromise moral decency. Free speech has its consequences and one of them is that we have now become a society where anything goes, but very little is valuable.  It’s hard to draw that line in law, but most of us know when it’s been crossed.   Ephesians 4:29 tells us, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”

For the past few weeks, I’ve been posting some fabulous videos of Christian comedians and I’ve noticed something.  It takes so much more talent and creativity to be funny without swearing and what results makes you laugh even more!

Next he talks about being learned without conceitedness.  Conversation should strive to be intelligent discussion without putting on those airs.  Anne Morrow Lindbergh said “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”

Do you have someone in your life that you dread talking to?  Someone who either never says anything new or someone who is always talking about himself so that you get bored with the conversation?  Do you have someone in your life you just LOVE talking to?  Maybe this person is an elderly relative who always has such rich and interesting stories to tell about life in the last century.  Conversation can be dull or it can have you hanging on every word.  It’s up the the individual to give something interesting of himself and there is a fine line between giving of himself and giving himself.

Finally, Shakespeare talks about being novel without falsehood.  This goes along the same lines as the previous segment.  There are those for whom boredom breaks out of his mouth because he never interjects a novel idea into the conversation.  Then there are those who spin wild tales just to wow their audience who is fully aware that almost none of this fantastic tale is actually true.

I hope you enjoyed your Communication lessons from Shakespeare!  I now return you to your regularly scheduled era.

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“College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, finds a new study accepted for publication in the National Communication Association’s journal Communication Education.”

The article goes on to suggest, “Students should consider limiting their texting during class.”  I’d go a few steps further.

1. Texting during class is RUDE both to the professor and to the other students trying to learn.

2. Texting during class is a great way to make a bad impression on a professor/teacher.

3. Texting during class can lower your grade either by not allowing you to pay close attention or by creating a poor impression which contributes to a professor’s sway when a student’s grade is on the fence between an A and a B (or more likly a C and a D).

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pyknic \PIK-nik\

adjective: 1. Having a rounded build or body structure.

noun:  1. A person of the pyknic type.

xI don’t know about you, but the older I get, the more pyknic my body type gets!  And that’s no picnic!  LOL

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