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The Conference
Posted: 21 January 2006
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Different venue.
Same people.
Same words.
Same ideas.
Workshops or seminars,
typical key note speaking.
Chicken on sticks and
those vegetarian things no one likes.
Questions and answers,
answers and questions.
Drawing pretty little circles,
flow charts and post-it arts.
The conclusion?
We need more money.
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 DJC at 07:39 on 22 January 2006
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Oh God how much do I remember this? You capture the futility of the conference so well, Stephen. I hate these things so much they're so draining. I love the detail about the chicken on sticks and the veggie things - a cleverly put bit of detail which says a lot. I also like the little bit of internal rhyme in 'flow charts and post-it arts'. Nice one.
typo - 'pretty'
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engldolph at 09:22 on 22 January 2006
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HI Stephen,
Really made my laugh this one...very clever...
as someone who attends a lot of these... and the last line is deceptively brilliant:
The conclusion?
We need more money.
this really captures the lack of imagination that people have when approaching problems...not able to create new solutions, so fall back on the old..if only we had more money ....unfortunately, every other conference on every other subject has just come up with the same solution...and, there is only so much money!
only line that didn't quite fit (besides the typo for "whilst") was: whist the knife waits
too dark for the other lines.
good one
Mike
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 James Graham at 13:10 on 22 January 2006
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It's a good point that you haven't written anything, in the title or anywhere else, to tell us what organisation this is. It could be almost any, and so as you can see from comments so far, lots of people can relate to it.
Another good example of your conciseness - 'flow charts and post-it arts' has been mentioned already, an excellent line. But the whole thing has that necessary conciseness, the poem implying there's no need to go on about the conference phenomenon, a few well-chosen words will do.
James.
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Tina at 12:39 on 23 January 2006
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Stephen
I've been to that conference! Over and over!!
Reading this at 'lunch' ha! Really made me laugh out loud - a real give away that I'm not working - thanks - great stuff
Tina
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 Elsie at 20:49 on 23 January 2006
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Hi Stephen, I really like this. Nice and concise, unlike those meetings. Wasn't a charity by any chance? Reminds me of those daft research sessions that finally come to the conclusion that any everybody knew instinctively anyway. I hate those silly diagrams. And the questions - if this car/product/bank/shampoo was a casserole - what kind would it be?
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hailfabio at 13:47 on 24 January 2006
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Thanks for all comments on this.
I thought it would strike a cord. The knife line was too heavy so I changed it.
It was an equality in sport conference, I was on the panel taking questions from the floor. Everyone wants a quick fix.
Cheers
Stephen
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