All this time I could've been learning the swing

[muckefuck]

Someone on the staff--and gawd help 'em if I ever find out who--started the rumour that I'd be willing to do a "dramatic reading" in the staff talent contest. (A bad idea brilliantly dealt with in one of the first two seasons of BtVS.) I protested that I can't be in the contest since "I don't actually have any talent." "Everybody has talent," responded a co-worker. "Yeah, but mine is that I know a lot of languages. How do I make that interesting?" Any ideas? Yeah, I thought not.

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[areia.livejournal.com]

You could recreate that Youtube video of 'A Whole New World' from Aladdin where they switch languages every few seconds. I'd have to find some way to sneak into the contest to watch that though...

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

I have a talent for sitting in audiences and observing.
At least, I've never had a negative review.

...why in god's name would a library have a staff talent contest? Could you explain that libraries ought to be quiet places? That the most dramatic reading is done privately?

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

You could curse like a sailor in 12 different languages.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

It's only the dirty words that anyone is ever interested in!

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

Recite Hamlet's soliloquy, or anything else you have memorized, in all your languages.

For extra excitement, neo-Futurise it and let the audience pick when you switch languages and to what, from a menu card.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

"生存還是毀滅？這是個問題。"

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

You could always do an imitation of the "It's a Small World" ride.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Where would I find the hats?

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

Hold a "spot the missing diacritic" contest.

[anicca-anicca.livejournal.com]

Staff talent contest.
My German mind boggles.