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PUBLIC SPEAKING resources for you
Public Speaking: 
Bloopers in public speaking
Bloopers are clumsy mistakes that are usually made in public. The television show TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes and many blooper books are indicators of the interest we have in other people's goofs.
Here are two from All Time Great Bloopers by Blooper Snooper Kermit Schafer and one from More Press Boners by Earle Tempel, and how you might use them in a public speaking presentation.
- Several years
ago, I heard about a DJ on WIOD in Miami who said, "This is Alan Courtney
speaking. Don't forget, tonight at nine, our special guest . . . (pause) .
. .will be . . . I forgot." Well, I haven't forgotten why we are here
today . . . or (For an introducer) I couldn't possibly forget who is here
with us today.
- Mayor Daley
of Chicago was being interviewed on TV following the riots during the Democratic
convention. The mayor stated, "The police in Chicago are not here to
create disorder, they are here to preserve it." I hope I don't create
or preserve any disorder in my presentation today.
- From The San
Leandro, CA News: I saw a notice in the newspaper the other day. It said,
"Industrial Boulevard is empty because it is a road to nowhere. Work
is underway to extend it." If we keep developing the obsolete widget.
We will be on the road to nowhere too.
