The Stars agreed there were no inspirational speeches: "Too much experience in this room," said Richard Matvichuk, who helped win the cup last year.
They can also listen for filler words such as "you know," "so," and "um," although you needn't worry about those words too much for this speech.
Don't clog up your speech with too much extra language.
"If anything, I thought the speech relied too much on the Sept. 11 tragedy," said Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari of Albany.
She argued in the speech that too much of the coverage blindly embraced patriotic symbols and ignored civilian and military causalities and the other "horrors" of war.
The speech did too much of the former and not enough of the setting out our own stall to enthuse the grassroots.
She said the fact that Saudi ministers were at the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris last week to support free speech was "too much".
Brown, an incomparable teacher through his itinerant career, caught himself at one point in his induction speech, almost too much in awe to speak.
It's not that we think women are necessarily apparent or speaking as much as men, but that we expect them to be, relatively speaking, invisible and not speaking, so, by comparison, any appearance and speech is "too much".
