Help Write A Swanky Graduation Speech, Pweeze
 

My younger daughter, the one named after Gepetto's fish, is graduating from high school. She's going to give a speech at the ceremony.

And she's drawing a blank. Wanna help?

Muchas smoochas,
3894 .... or Helen

"Good luck, we're all counting on you."

"You made it, now get on with the rest of your lives."

"It was a dark and stormy night..."



A couple of possible ideas
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/graduation/speeches/
http://www.graduationwisdom.com/
http://collegeuniversity.suite101.co...duation_speech

Rampant unemployment, huge deficits, country divided politically....great time to be headed out on your own!

Blech, yeah.

Thanks for the suggestions and keep 'em coming. Your time and talent are appreciated!

I can't help with what to write but if it helps with the stress of having to think of something reassure her than in a week nobody will remember anything she said regardless of how good or bad.

At least that assumes my experience was typical and I had more reason than most to remember what was said at mine since I was dating the valedictorian and helped her write it.

1) Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I have taken the liberty of preparing a few brief remarks. [Unfurl scroll to raucous laughter.]

2) On this solemn occasion, I am reminded of the joke about the priest who complained to his friend the rabbi about the rat problem he was having at his church. . . . . It was easy, said the rabbi. I bar mitzvahed all the rats. I haven't seen them since. Many of us will be like those bar mitzvahed rats, taking our school honors, never to return. And yet . . .

Friends, students and countrymen, lend me your pants, for I am wearing none.

Whip out a cell phone and do the entire speech via twitter?