A Gesture is Worth 1000 Words

Last week I spoke at our first Wednesday service at church and had a great time. The handful of positive comments I’ve received about it in the past week makes me think it went over well enough, so that’s been encouraging.

I had Chad burn me a DVD of the message so I could put it online in case anyone wanted to check it out. I’m in the process of doing that now, so if you’re interested in viewing it, let me know and I can give you a heads up when it’s online.

One thing I did notice as I was watching the DVD was the great faces I was making while I was speaking. Seemed like I could smack the pause button like a “Press Your Luck” contestant at any point in the message and my face would come up whammies. (80s game show reference anyone? and if you don’t think I just spent 20 minutes reading the Press Your Luck Wikipedia page, you don’t know me.)

Some of my faces and poses were too good not to share…so I’m sharing.

(with captions, of course…)

Believe me, I could have done this for a hundred more frames. But since making fun of myself doesn’t pay the bills, those 6 will have to do … for now.

13 Comments on "A Gesture is Worth 1000 Words"

  1. Jason Boyett says:

    Brilliant. I feel like I was there in person.

  2. lindsay says:

    hahaha! these are pretty awesome. makes me want to watch the video to see if i can find what you’re actually talking about during these moments!

  3. mary says:

    I agree with lindsay! these are hilarious! I would love to see the video.

  4. Brad Ruggles says:

    Ha ha, those are awesome! I’m sure I could come up with tons of goofy faces of myself from my speaking videos too.

  5. Bryan Allain says:

    i’ll let you know when the video’s up. first person to correctly identify where those 6 moments happen wins their choice of a free footlong from Subway or a free Mammogram from your local health clinic.

  6. jordan says:

    how about a free mammogram from your local subway

  7. :pounds desk: SO FUNNY, BRYAN. SO INCREDIBLY FUNNY.

    [So did you read about the guy who watched PYL enough that he figured out the board and just went nuts? I mean, nuts? Stunning.]

  8. jill jennings says:

    you are too funny! i want to see this dvd

  9. Michelle says:

    pretty interesting! and funny at that…great sense of humor..

  10. Tim McGeary says:

    Bryan – when do I get the Shamwow I ordered last month? I’m still waiting… Great captions. They are hilarious. I have a DVD in my “work bag”, as my daughter calls it, of a talk I gave at Penn State earlier this month. I haven’t gotten up the courage to watch it yet. But I think now I do…

    Geof – I saw a documentary on that guy a few years ago. It’s pretty freaky, actually, and had a sad ending.

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