“What Makes a Nickname Stick?” – a Toastmasters Presentation

Today I present to you my 7th Toastmasters Speech. The focus of this speech is to prepare by researching the topic. The speech should be 5-7 minutes long.

Some of the feedback I received was that the speech didn’t fit the “research” tag in traditional sense. It also was short, coming in at only 4:45.

I thought the criticism was fair. However, in my defense, about half of my speeches are almost purely research related, about careers or technical topics. So, I didn’t feel like I had to prove I could do that. Also, this speech did require a fair amount of research (though I didn’t reference it specifically in my speech). I had to look up Cavaliers nicknames, accurate movie quotes, and search for the origination of nicknames for inspiration.

Here is one of the sites I used as a reference: 25 worst nicknames in NBA History

And if you were wondering more about that yearbook picture I refer to, here it is (I don’t remember being that much of a Surge fan):