Cicero...eat your heart out... or just try a pupusa...

[laughingphoenix]

I have decided recently that I want to become a master orator. I need to read some Cicero or something equally pretentious before this can be accomplished, of course. But, in the meantime, I was wondering if (and I submit this to all of you wonderfully versed dramatic or generally loud, extroverted persons) there is a good way to practice such a

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hey now...

[dog_spartacus]

Read this, Tooky-Yum-Yum,
If you haul off and become a master orator, I just might drop you like a squeamish little girl drops a worm. I don't do the whole I-talk-pretentiously-in-public-in-front-of-others-to-the-embarrassment-of-my-friends-and-those-around-me thing unless it has been well-scripted, well-rehearsed and very much planned. That said, I sometimes have planned pretentious conversations with people, but would never tolerate an oration from one of my friends. = ]
jusdohndoit
= )

But no, um, if that's really your dream... go for it. Just not around me. = )

Remember, Cicero was a pompous dick. And no one wants that these days. = P

Re: hey now...

[laughingphoenix]

Haha, I don't mean be a pompous ass to embarass my friends, I'd just like to be able to make a point eloquently in front of a large number of people (perhaps helpful if I intend to attend law school or become a good lobbyist or become a rock star or some such nonsense). I don't tend to "orate" to my buddies (unless we get stuck in some sort of Lord of the Flies situation or "the end is near" or morale is low while we're fighting the robot-monkeys from Mars), but I find the idea of being able to speak one's mind well spontaneously and coherently perfectly acceptable and frankly desirable. But maybe that's the pretension talking... If so, my apologies. :) I promise I won't lecture or give a speech to you, unless I plan to ask you to marry me or something... "Devon, when one considers the bonds of friendship... um..." Which, no offense, is highly unlikely