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Most embarrassing speech tale
I've been in some terribly embarrassing situations. Share yours, I'll share mine.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Williams on -
I have two, last year at the NIETOC I fell over a bench in front of everyone. I was dancing and wasn't paying attention to my surroundings. My first tournament in college, I was delivering my persuasive speech and I completely forgot it. I just stood there trying to remember my speech, but I couldn't!!! :(.... -_-
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Permalink Reply by Jessie 'Nelson' Wagner on -
While getting ready to compete at State, my pants split up the back at the hotel, I had to wear a blanket on the bus while my duo partner cried and sewed them back together!
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Permalink Reply by Iven Mendoza on -
One of our local showcases this past year My duo partner and I just got out of a round(which is where I THINK it happened). There is a scene in our duo where a fat kid and a bully get a little physical, I'm guessing I bent over pretty fast and ended up ripping my pants during the performance. It was torn from the back all the way to the bottom of the zipper on the front. A former competitor came up to me later on and said, "Hey, do you need some pants?" in a really serious tone. So I started laughing thinking he was just being a douche...
He wasn't being a douche.
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Permalink Reply by Carrie Guggenmos on -
Def almost peeing during my last my info sem at NFA last year. I rushed through it because I honestly cared more about peeing than doing well. :/
There's that.
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Permalink Reply by Bill M. Thompson on -
Junior year I broke my hand and fingers on my right hand the night before we left for a huge national tournament. In in the bathroom right before a round and my zipper gets stuck.. Not something you can handle with one hand.. So I wait for someone to walk in and it happens to be an older guy I'd never seen before.. So I ask him and he reluctantly said he will help me. As he's wrestling with my zipper a guy from another team walks in and assumes he's walked in on something a little less innocent than it is and he bolts flustered..
Why please why after I go to my duo round do I walk in to impromptu and there is not only the older guy (my judge) but the kid who had assumed the worst. When he saw my hand in the cast and purple fingers I guess it occurred to him what had actually happened and he just starts laughing and continues throughout the speech because the quotation had to do with wrong assumptions.. The older guy got tickled thinking about what had just transpired and the second judge had the most confused look I have ever seen from a judge until she heard the agd.
3 guesses what my AGD was... #gotthe1
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Permalink Reply by Marshall Covert on -
I once walked into a first round that was still going on, thinking I was late for my second round. Why did I do this? Because my friend, who was in extemp, told me the round was starting. It wasn't. It was his draw time that was starting.
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Permalink Reply by Kerry Jo Green on -
My friend Jason has an amazing one, and if I can convince him I'll get him to tell you it. I feel bad telling it myself.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Hannan on -
At a college tournament in Ohio, my eye started bleeding in the middle of an extemp speech (it was cold outside, I dry out really easily, I had been sleeping in my contacts, it was like a nose-bleed, but from the lining around the eye). I didn't notice it; I did notice the horrified stare on the judge's face. I brought my hand up to my face, brought it away bloody, made a joke about the apocalypse and demon-possession, then excused myself to the bathroom to get some toilet paper. I came back, finished the speech, left. I #didnotgetthe1.
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Permalink Reply by Ganer Newman on -
sweet jesus, man. nice move on the demon possession gag!
Jeff Hannan said:
At a college tournament in Ohio, my eye started bleeding in the middle of an extemp speech (it was cold outside, I dry out really easily, I had been sleeping in my contacts, it was like a nose-bleed, but from the lining around the eye). I didn't notice it; I did notice the horrified stare on the judge's face. I brought my hand up to my face, brought it away bloody, made a joke about the apocalypse and demon-possession, then excused myself to the bathroom to get some toilet paper. I came back, finished the speech, left. I #didnotgetthe1.
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Permalink Reply by Travis Kiger on -
I cracked up out loud for a good 45 sec.
Jeff Hannan said:
At a college tournament in Ohio, my eye started bleeding in the middle of an extemp speech (it was cold outside, I dry out really easily, I had been sleeping in my contacts, it was like a nose-bleed, but from the lining around the eye). I didn't notice it; I did notice the horrified stare on the judge's face. I brought my hand up to my face, brought it away bloody, made a joke about the apocalypse and demon-possession, then excused myself to the bathroom to get some toilet paper. I came back, finished the speech, left. I #didnotgetthe1.
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Permalink Reply by Dominic Clust on -
NCFL Nationals FIRST ROUND!!...my duo partner and I were circling around one another. We were both looking up...and I stumbled over something--his freakin' shoe! He lost his shoe mid-performance, caused me to trip, and he went the rest of the performance without it! Everyone was deadpanning us. It looked like they felt sorry for us. 3 judges: 3, 3, 1. First place in the round. Boom.
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Permalink Reply by Marshall Covert on
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What year was this?
Dominic Clust said:
NCFL Nationals FIRST ROUND!!...my duo partner and I were circling around one another. We were both looking up...and I stumbled over something--his freakin' shoe! He lost his shoe mid-performance, caused me to trip, and he went the rest of the performance without it! Everyone was deadpanning us. It looked like they felt sorry for us. 3 judges: 3, 3, 1. First place in the round. Boom.
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