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It was a mixture of motivation, humor, and two songs,

one at the beginning, and one at the close. It was

very well received at breakfasts and dinners.

Many times I got standing ovations.

BUT... it seemed luncheon folk had too much on their

minds from work for this, and wanted more of an

informational talk. That was easy to assess so I just

stopped doing luncheons.

Then Scott, a speaker-friend of mine, who was a

total humorist, and a very good one, said I should

just try my hand at humor-only.

I tried it and bombed like crazy. Folks walked out.

My mouth got so dry speaking I could hardly form

my words. I just wasn't only a humorist, in the PURE

sense of the word, even though I did a lot of humor

in my talks very successfully.

I was just so on-edge because of this experience, it

took me 6 months to totally get over it.

So, the moral is:

don't try to do what you ain't called to do

or you just may fall flat on your face.

I wish I could say this was a joke.

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