tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post5783597220100349392..comments2023-12-29T19:25:59.927-05:00Comments on We're Just Sayin: The Commencement SpeechIris&Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131960635510843593noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-13743598225892788002007-05-07T23:43:00.000-04:002007-05-07T23:43:00.000-04:00This just in:Talked with Yentl, and she says she'l...This just in:<BR/><BR/>Talked with Yentl, and she says she'll do it for scale or Equity points, but bascially, it's "No More Ms. Nice Guy"<BR/><BR/>Back to the Edit room.Iris&Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08131960635510843593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-30524481436085382362007-05-06T22:49:00.000-04:002007-05-06T22:49:00.000-04:00Thanks friendsthese are such good ideas, we think ...Thanks friends<BR/>these are such good ideas, we think that David's speech is going to be about who we should have sent instead!Iris&Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08131960635510843593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-52316677695773367552007-05-06T13:54:00.000-04:002007-05-06T13:54:00.000-04:00David, I would send Jordon instead of you. Put tho...David, I would send Jordon instead of you. <BR/><BR/>Put those great acting skills to good use. A little grey powder in the hair, some reading glasses, and she is set to go.<BR/><BR/>After all you did pay for her education and it is about time you got something out of it.<BR/><BR/>And, if your speech starts to lose the audience she can always bring down the house with some broadway hits.<BR/><BR/>And its great press for you - TIMES HEADLINE - "Famed photographer wows alumni with Yentl!". <BR/><BR/>Fresh Gefilte fish handouts at the auditorium door may help...?<BR/><BR/>If Jordon won't go,you could also send the guy that thought you were dead for 37 years. He to deliver a eulogy, he's had 37 years to think about it, if he cant come up with an hour speech who can? <BR/><BR/>Then of course you show up at the end of his eulogy to ooooh's and aaaah's, and glory be's, a few oh my gods he's alive! Cut to: Iris fake fainting into the arms of a friend.<BR/><BR/>If you could appear from the wings semi-naked , parched and limping, maybe loin covering made out of palm branches, have a scruffy beard, an old broken nikon being dragged around your foot, all the better.<BR/><BR/>Glad I could help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-45310437083019175732007-05-06T09:15:00.000-04:002007-05-06T09:15:00.000-04:00Just a thought..What if David envisioned each grad...Just a thought..What if David envisioned each grad as a photo, each with 'a thousand words', and he adds a portion to each?? And, what if was added,"each picture says a thousand words..in each of you, I see a thousand stories of your future to come.."Walter Briggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00512335002946026312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-80616189260631323292007-05-05T20:46:00.000-04:002007-05-05T20:46:00.000-04:00David, no no no, I'm sorry, Dr. David, what you ne...David, no no no, I'm sorry, Dr. David, what you need to tell the graduates is about the guy who thought you died in Vietnam, and never took the effort to think otherwise.<BR/><BR/>I'm now the age my father was when I graduated college. William Safire gave our commencement address. He failed to graduate from Syracuse University many years before, so at least he was getting an honorary degree for life experience. His talk still inspires me.<BR/><BR/>But what I really remember were my fellow graduates after commencement. A bunch of us stood around looking for our families, laughing, and saying "That's it. We're college graduates? We just got here 4 years ago. You mean it's over? We don't really feel any different."<BR/><BR/>So remember David, there's no pressure. It's just that there may be one student in the audience who will actually remember you 29 years later. More than I can say for that fellow in Vietnam. Grin.Walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05840019474205251845noreply@blogger.com