Need humorous inspiration for PPT project for wife's birthday.

[nuttyguy]

Hey all,

I'm using PowerPoint 2003 and have had some experience with it, but I'm not
overly comfortable with it. I wanted to know if anyone out there could
suggest some good sights with humorous PPT files. I'd like some
inspiration to create a presentation for my wife's 40th birthday. Thanks
in advance for your links.

Nutty

 

[Ute Simon]

I'm using PowerPoint 2003 and have had some experience with it, but I'm

not
overly comfortable with it. I wanted to know if anyone out there could
suggest some good sights with humorous PPT files. I'd like some
inspiration to create a presentation for my wife's 40th birthday. Thanks
in advance for your links.

Hi Nutty,

aren't you the one, who knows her best? Dig out your old photo albums and
ask her parents for photos of her childhood. Scan some of the best ones.
Please do not use a high resolution, scanning at 150 dpi is enough,
resulting in digital images of 800x600 to 1024x768 pixel for an image which
fills a whole slide. Make some photo slides for every decade of her life.

Add her favorite music. What did her parents sing for her when she was very
young? Which pop music did she listen to as a teenage girl? What did you
like when you married? What does she like now?

Are there any special events and anecdotes to tell? When you have finished
this basic presentation, spice it up with some cartoons, decorative text,
etc.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Austin Myers]

Man, you must be looking for a beating posting your wife's age in public
like that. <g> Humor is usualy shared, what have the two of you done that
turned out hilarious? Build a presentation about it.

$.02


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[nuttyguy]

Hi Nutty,

aren't you the one, who knows her best? Dig out your old photo albums and
ask her parents for photos of her childhood. Scan some of the best ones.
Please do not use a high resolution, scanning at 150 dpi is enough,
resulting in digital images of 800x600 to 1024x768 pixel for an image which
fills a whole slide. Make some photo slides for every decade of her life.

Add her favorite music. What did her parents sing for her when she was very
young? Which pop music did she listen to as a teenage girl? What did you
like when you married? What does she like now?

Are there any special events and anecdotes to tell? When you have finished
this basic presentation, spice it up with some cartoons, decorative text,
etc.

Kind regards,
Ute

Ute, Thanks for suggestions in the creation process. The thing for me is
I'm feeling a bit of writer's block when it comes to using the PowerPoint
medium. I was hoping to find pages with PPT files for inspiration. Kind
of like picking up a good book or a well written magazine article when you
need to inspire your own writing. What sites have good or funny ppt
presentations?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Nutty guy,

First, (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT) know you your intended audience. The funniest
presentation to you might be a nightmare to someone in denial of their age.
No humor is worth a loved one's humiliation (their perception, not yours).

Ok, now, things you can do.

Recreate the time. What didn't exist when they were born? IPod's, DVD's,
PC's, Teflon, Xerox, ABS auto systems, the internet...
Recreate the person, show images as they grew up, but re-label the events.
Photoshop them into important events of the time they were growing up.
Shaking Nixon's hand in a cowboy suit. etc.
Please the person in early times. Jurassic Betty and Dark-ages Debbie come
to mind.
"This is your life" takeoffs with recollections and narrations by many loved
ones.

Most of these will take a serious time commitment. Whatever you decide to
do, spend the time required to let them person know that you cared enough to
make an effect.

--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org

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