The Speaker’s Line serves as an introduction

Since the average after-dinner speaker is a man, he not only has a speaking “line,” he also has a line that makes his living. Whether it be a trade or a factory, occupation or profession, audiences are interested in the paths that led to his success. This chapter paces those pathways.

The following paragraphs are instances wherein a speaker’s livelihood provided his entire introduction:

Engineer

Our speaker is a rambling wreck and a hell of an engineer. Curiosity has run rampant in his makeup ever since he was a small boy who wanted to know, “Where was I when I wasn’t?” This goading spirit sends him deep into engine rooms of industry to see what makes them run. Our friend has further talents; after that visit to the engine room he is better posted on what makes the wheels go ’round than the average industrialist, and he can explain what he has seen so well that you yourself can visualize it. So I shall encroach no more on this talented man’s time.

Public speaking instructor

On other occasions these following remarks might weave the speaker’s line into the introduction: Our speaker teaches public speaking, and knows his business well. It is his opinion that our video habits are destroying the art of conversation-an art that should be re-cultivated. Nowadays a man is considered an intelligent conversationalist when he just nods his head in agreement while you talk-and there’s but little prospect for future improvement because about the only answer the small fry knows how to give, is “Yup!”

Our speaker seeks to turn that trend; yet much as we sympathize with those who want to bring back conversation, we wonder whether they’ve heard some of the stuff after it came back? Or listened to a ladies’ bridge group breaking up? At their rate of a hundred fifty words a minute with gusts up to one-eighty-a man wonders whether conversation really IS dead.
Now that we’ve put these barriers into his path, let’s let him put out his line about the merits of public speaking:
[From here on these thumb nail sketches dealing with "lines", may serve (with fitting alterations), as material for both the introduction and the speaker's personal references to his bread and butter line.]

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