Herby Flo. Again
Lots of people have been speaking recently. So Herby Flo thought she would have a go.
Written during a small break last year in the Sahara desert, slightly after a modern, clause ridden update to the traditional Monopoly card set was suggested, Herby Flo gave this speech to an audience of amazed on-lookers:
"I have a dream. I dream of a world, where I am walking down the street. But then I realise I'm not wearing any shoes. And some big bullys are yelling at me from across the street. When I turn to look at them the street has disappeared, and I am flying across the sea. But I start falling towards an island. I wake up just before I land. That is my dream!" - Herby Flo
And the Monopoly part :
It would be fair to say that not many of those listening quite understood her point. It would also be fair if the entirety of Steps were inadvertently impaled. By a VAMPIRE!
Meanwhile :
"I too have a dream. That is all" - a fish monger. Before monging some fish
It is widely considered that although her efforts had merit, what Herby Flo failed to do was sit down and write a comprehensible speech about a sensible topic. It is less widely considered, but equally true, that she also did not buy me a large bottle of vodka. Or even a small one.
One newspaper columnist wrote this about the speech :
Herby Flo's speech was interesting for what it didn't say rather than what it said. Which is to say that it certainly wasn't interesting with respect to what it said. Actually, ignore that, it wasn't interesting at all.
Which, of course, the sub-editor took literally and completely ignored the whole paragraph when passing on the article to be printed. Meanwhile another columnist wrote this :
Please sir, let me out from this cage now, for I have been here five and twenty days. But not in that order. I am growing weak for I have not eaten, and my family will be upset that I am missing.
I ignored him. I always do. I have been for nearly a month now.
Meanwhile, Flurby Jim fundamentalists have demanded an unconfirmed rumour appear. Allegedly!
"I'm a bit of a hippy, right? So, like, I always used to think, no matter what happened to me, 'what would John Lennon have done in this situation?'. Which worked quite well. Until I spotted a mad man about to shoot me" - a former hippy
"If I die before I wake, love me all the same, yeah?" - you.