Bannering (v.): the act of putting up a Toastmasters banner in the venue.
“Hey, can you help me out by bannering the room?”
Binge-toasting (v.): the act of attending as many Toastmaster events as possible in a short period.
“I seriously binge-toasted this past weekend … Friday lunch meeting, Spring Conference, then a Monday evening meeting to boot! I now feel toasted out … okay, one more, will visit McGill Toastmasters Tuesday evening too. Oh, almost forgot Wednesday’s mentoring session …”
ChairToast (n, v) As a noun the ChairToast is the Toastmaster of the event, bringing together the aspects of chairing the meeting and being the Toastmaster of the meeting. As a verb, the ChairToast simply ChairToasts the meeting.
“I hope you get an opportunity to be the ChairToast soon! ChairToasting a Beyond Words Advanced Toastmasters meeting is fabulous.”
Post-toasties (n.): aka the “meeting-after-the-meeting”, this is the fun post-meeting get-together Toastmasters attend to eat, drink, and be merry.
“I want to join that advanced club, Beyond Words. I hear they have an incredibly fun post-toasties with great food and ‘bring-your-own-wine’.”
Toast-hopping (v.): attending several different Toastmaster clubs in a relatively short period.
“I toast-hopped last week and visited three clubs, including the awesome Beyond Words one.”
Toastmastering (v.): the act of attending a Toastmaster meeting or any social or administrative function related to Toastmasters.
“I’m toastmastering tonight at Speak with Style.!” (Not to be confused with “I’m the Toastmaster tonight at Speak with Style.”)
Toastmastered out (v.): that exhausted but happy feeling one gets after attending one too many Toastmaster events.
“I’m feeling toastmastered out, I seriously need to hermit tonight so I can toastmaster some more this week.”
Learn more about the ABCs of Toastmasters here.
*JOKES*
Why did the Toastmaster cross the road? To get to his club meeting on the other side.
Why did the Toastmaster cross the other road? To join in on the post-toasties fun of course!
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