Amplified Orator Gifts

Reverse speech

"Of course he's smiling. He's getting $15,000 to give a lecture on free speech."

'To make sure I get noticed I always talk in a big bold typeface.'

William Pitt the Elder

'Just because you're smarter than me doesn't mean I can't always be right.'

'A 'pregnant pause' is effective only if you've already said something.'

Projecting Obama

'He'll be really p****d if he doesn't get nominated for an award this year.'

"In closing, let me tell you that never in the universe have I spoken before such an attentive audience."

Hallelujah!

Nice speech, but you don't have that many friends. You better add "Romans and countrymen."

"He says he's a Professor of Rhetoric but I'm not persuaded."

'Is not the evidence of the accussed, members of the jury, a earrage of evasion and lies Do bears, or do bears not shit, in the woods'

"Tough group."

"What Color Is Your Soapbox?"

"Doctor, your speech was certainly unabridged."

"Feel free to use it. It's an emergency escape hatch if you say something controversial."

George Frideric Handel

A silenced protester

Well spoken man.

'I'd like now to introduce Len who will tell slightly humourous stories in his inimicable self-serving way,'

Little Jimmy Harmon: first to amplify the sparerib

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"What she said - but louder, and with more authority."

"Imagine the treat as if you already have it."

Soap Box

Small media against information monopolies

J. Dudley - Statesman, orator, philanthropist, big deficit spender.

' Pol Meeting'

Singer projecting her voice through a microphone.

"I'm speaking with you this evening without the benefit of speech-writers or teleprompters. Thank you and good night."

Protester

"...and now a few words from the class know-it-all."

"My wife took up walkin' a mile a day five years ago. Haven't seen her since!" "Lucky son of a..."

"And let me be perfectly clear when I say teleprompters are a godsend!"