Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!
Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn't teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!

Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!
Pete's pa pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!

How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground!

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!
How many cookies could a good cook cook if a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!
Bill had a billboard. Bill also had a board bill. The billboard bored Bill so Bill sold the billboard to pay for the board bill.

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!
A canner exceedingly canny,
One morning remarked to his granny,
A canner can can,
Anything that he can,
But a canner can't can a can; can he? http://ping.fm/WovG6

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!

A sad story about Nobody!
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did, what Anybody could have done.

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!

Dick had a dog, the dog dug, the dog dug deep, how deep did Dick's dog dig?
Dick had a duck, the duck dived, the duck dived deep, how deep did Dick's duck dive?
Dick's duck dived as deep as Dick's dog dug!

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!

Betty Botter bought some butter, but the butter Betty Botter bought was bitter. So Betty Botter bought some better butter to make the bitter butter Betty Botter bought better. But instead of the better butter Betty Botter bought making the bitter butter Betty Botter bought better, the bitter butter Betty Botter bought made the better butter Betty Botter bought bitter!

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak slowly and with Clarity!

A bitter biting bittern bit a better biting bittern
And the better biting bittern bit the bitter biting bittern back.
 Said the bitter biting bittern to the better biting bittern 
“I’m a bitter biting bittern bitten back” http://ping.fm/O150k

If you wish to eliminate fear, concentrate on courage.
If you wish to eliminate lack, concentrate on abundance.
If you wish to eliminate disease, concentrate on health.
Charles Haanel

“The attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore, the secret of all power, all achievement and all possession depends upon our method of thinking. This is true because we must “be” before we can “do,” and we can “do” only to the extent which we “are,” and what we “are” depends upon what we “think.” Charles Haanel

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“The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.” Charles Haanel

Today,s Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity!

How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.

"That a person can change themselves, improve themselves, re-create themselves, control their environment and master their destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide awake to the power of right thought in constructive action" Larson

Another day and another great opportunity to appreciate all my friends and business associates.

Todays Inspirational Quote.
"Love is friendship set on fire."
- Jeremy Taylor

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity!
Federal Express is now called FedEx.
When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex.
But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec.
Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex.
If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec.
When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity!
- A twister of twists once twisted a twist;
 A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist;
 If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist,
 The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.

Todays Inspirational Quote.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! There once was a man who had a sister, his name was Mr. Fister. Mr. Fister's sister sold sea shells by the sea shore. Mr. Fister didn't sell sea shells, he sold silk sheets. Mr. Fister told his sister that he sold six silk sheets to six shieks. The sister of Mr. Fister said I sold six shells to six shieks too!

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity!
4 Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?

Todays Inspirational Quote. "Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
"Boo!" cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.

Todays Inspirational Quote. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

Todays Inspirational Quote. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock
 in a pestilential prison with a life long lock 
awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock 
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

Todays Inspirational Quote. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through. 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! World Wide Web

Todays Inspirational Quote. "If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! Can you can a can as a canner can can a can? 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.

Todays Inspirational Quote. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! There was a fisherman named Fisher 
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
 Till a fish with a grin,
 pulled the fisherman in. 
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher. 


Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! Denise sees the fleece,
 Denise sees the fleas.
 At least Denise could sneeze 
and feed and freeze the fleas. 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Todays Inspirational Quote. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks

Todays Inspirational Quote! "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

Todays Inspirational Quote. 28 "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity. "Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks."

Todays Quote! "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Todays Diction Lesson! Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.

Todays Action Quote! "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Todays Diction Lesson! How many boards 
could the Mongols hoard 
If the Mongol hoards got bored?

Todays Diction Lesson! A quick witted cricket critic. 


Todays Diction Exercise. Practice perfect Enunciation!
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
 A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
 If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
 where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 


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