Originally posted by: raptor13
I did a speech awhile back, on a whim, entitled "How to Win a Conversation." The entire idea is to present any conversation as a battle between the participants. I went through reasons it's important to win, strategies, and benefits. It involved a really high-energy delivery utilizing everything I was talking/ranting about in the speech. For each of the three times I delivered it in front of an audience (the largest of which was about 300 people

) people would be shocked at the beginning and then, after a minute or two, just be rolling around laughing.
I went for a five minute time as well.
Plus, it afforded me the opportunity to say "cunning linguist" and "master debator" in front of large, captive audiences.