[Mick]

The second best I ever heard was the one that I gave.  :)  Great fun for me; kids are great and i had some college stories.  Plus I promised to speak for 12 minutes and finished in 11:58.

A good friend of mine is a former Stanford lineman, now an assistant district attorney.  He makes his opening and closing statements exactly 12 minutes, because that's what Americans are accustomed to...it's the time from commercial to commercial on network television, generally speaking.  He always laughs when defense attorneys drone on for an hour or more and lose the jury.

So you nailed it, Hulk....

[Mick]

The second best I ever heard was the one that I gave.  :)  Great fun for me; kids are great and i had some college stories.  Plus I promised to speak for 12 minutes and finished in 11:58.

A good friend of mine is a former Stanford lineman, now an assistant district attorney.  He makes his opening and closing statements exactly 12 minutes, because that's what Americans are accustomed to...it's the time from commercial to commercial on network television, generally speaking.  He always laughs when defense attorneys drone on for an hour or more and lose the jury.

So you nailed it, Hulk....