Keeping up on the latest news is an extemper’s greatest challenge.
Being witty and having the right, catchy factoid or story to add to your AGD, transitions, and conclusions is a whole other matter.
On both matters, I have something that could be of use. My wife just introduced me to The Toilet Paper.
The creators explain their story about how this nifty, daily email service began:
After some personal introspection, we realized the only part of our workday that we looked forward to was our alone time in the can. We would search diligently to find an article worthy of our focus during these prized personal moments. Sadly, most of what we found wasn’t worth the time it took to print out. We knew there had to be a better way.
Enter…The Toilet Paper.
We don’t lose sleep over taking ourselves too seriously, but we work hard to provide you with provocative, intelligent and reliably good content; stuff fit for the thinking man in everyone.
Be it be ripped from the headlines or the current buzz in pop-culture, we take one interesting news topic each day and put our spin on it. You’ll get the basics boiled down into quickly digestible bits including quotes, facts and cool stats and numbers on the subject.
One e-mail a day. Whether you laugh, learn something or nod in appreciation, The Toilet Paper will be there for you when you need it most.
You can register for The Toilet Paper on their website, or follow their updates on Twitter.