Although it is one of my favourite parts of a wedding
I'm SO glad I will never have to do a best-man speech.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 20:57,
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It's easy really.
I just went through me and my mates old home movies and edited something together with some music and showed that. I thought it said everything I wanted to say.
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JamTallons, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 21:11,
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I like stuff like that
bit of a cheat though JT...gets you out of having to tell rubbish jokes!
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 21:16,
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True True.
But some years later I was asked by someone else and for that I had to actually speak, with a microphone, to a room full of Americans who couldn't understand me.
Then later in the evening I had to speak again and no-one had told me. So that's sort of payback?
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JamTallons, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 21:25,
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Oh god..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIIuR-HjFho
One of THOSE moments.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 21:30,
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I went to a wedding where the very nice and well loved Groom did a speech in which he was stumbling, bumbling, sweaty and nervous, but brought the house down because he was nice. Then the best man stood up with his wacky hair and crazy glasses, and was greeted with 15 minutes of painful silence.
The moral of this story is nobody likes a try-hard.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 0:17,
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I was absolutely fucking terrified when I did my mate's.
Especially as I followed the father of the bride's speech, and he's a real manly man, and I'm a long haired effeminate fop. However, he blubbed like a girl, and I held it together, and my speech went down really well.
I mainly spent it implying the groom was a homosexual, and his new wife was his 'beard'. Seemed to work well. YMMV.
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