I’m going to give a lecture. I hope you’re seated
comfortably because I am going to give a lecture right now. A lecture that will
change the way you think. A lecture that will be of tremendous benefit, life changing
benefit, to you and everyone else on this planet. It is fair to say that the
lecture you are about to hear will bring about a new paradigm in human
experience. Excited? You should be. Now, to begin… ahem.
Since the dawn of humanity… hold on, sorry the power point
has gone a bit wonky. Now, let’s see. OK, OK, I think that’s it. Right. We’re
set. I’ll start again. Since the daw… No, that’s not it. It shouldn’t be
showing that. Just bear with me a moment and… now let’s see what’s happening
here. Hmm. OK. OK, that’s not the solution. Perhaps if I …no. This always
happens. Sorry about this. I usually sort it out. If I can just remember …hmm.
Hmmmm. Does anyone know where Clive went? He’s very good with these
contraptions. Clive? Clive, are you still here? No. No, he seems to have gone.
Well, I’ll just soldier on and see if I can fix it myself eh? Heh heh. Yes.
Soldier on. Now, let’s see. Hmm. Oh no. Oh damn it. Damn it to Hell. Why does
this always happen with these things? What was the matter with the overhead
projector or slides, blackboards even? Who thought these power point things
were a good idea? Clive? CLIVE! CLIVE! For God’s sake, they invite me out and…
look forget it. We’ll do the lecture without the visuals. Right. Right so,
let’s get started. Ahem, since the daw… damn. I can’t do this. I’ve prepared
the whole talk around the bloody pictures. CLIVE! CLIVE! For God’s sake why did
he wander off like that? I swear to God that man is the most… I mean really. I
mean bloody hell, I’m trying to change the world for the better here, you’d
think fate or God or whatever it is would cut me some slack. Oh forget it. Forget
the bloody power point. Look, I take it everyone is familiar with my work so we’ll
do a Q and A instead. How about that? Is everyone familiar with my work to
date? No? None of you? None of you are familiar with my work? Really? Seriously?
Well, what are you… I mean, why are you here? Is this some kind of joke? Christ.
This is worse than that Bioenergetics Conference at the
University of Freiburg. At least the power point worked for a few
minutes at that. Clive wasn’t around to help me then either. Too busy shagging
some empty headed postgrad behind his wife’s back I’d expect. Have you met
Clive’s wife? Annabel. Lovely woman. Don’t know how she puts up with him.
Anyway, I think we’ll forget about this talk. We’ll just call it quits will we?
I badly need a drink at this stage and, to be perfectly honest, I really
couldn’t give a damn if your lives change for the better or not. I really
couldn’t give a shit. I’ll keep my knowledge for those who could be bothered to
read my books or at least check out my ideas online. I mean, it doesn’t require
a monstrous amount of curiosity to Google a man’s name does it? No. No it
fuckin doesn’t. So, I’ll keep my paradigm shifting revelations to myself and
you lot can remain unenlightened and sit here waiting for fucking Clive to come
back so you can watch me stick this power point piece of crap right up his
fucking hole. How does that sound? How’s that for a new paradigm in human
experience?
3 comments:
I would be very pleased to buy your books and course of self-improvement audio cassettes should they be for sale in the foyer.
I am actally living through this lecture in a real world situation right now...
Why do people over 50 just not understand how to use powerpoint...
Oh look at that, how quaint, he just broke out the laser pointer and is wondering why his little red dot isn't visible on the 50" anti-glare flat-screen monitor...
Sigh...guess I could just spend my time in this presentation making comments on FUGGER...
Yeah, that's what I'll do...
Papa Hotel - the only things you'll find in the foyer are Clive's broken teeth.
A Brief History - a scientific study recently discovered that reading Fugger on mobile devices and faulty power points are respectively the second and third greatest causes of audience attention loss during presentations. The greatest cause was, and I quote, "havin the doss like". And that is science I'm citing.
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