A quote from Ian Mansfield

Each speaker gets five minutes to explain their research, with a human metronome banging a waste bin with a big stick after every minute. After five minutes, an eight-year old girl (last night, actually two twins) walks across the stage and says “Please Stop, I’m Bored” and repeats it until the speaker does indeed stop.

— Ian Mansfield

Posted 19th March 2010 at 11:07 am

18 comments

I wonder if there was a speech so interesting which even girlie-of-doom wouldn't dare to interrupt.

wiz - 19th March 2010 11:52 - #
Eight year olds are difficult to keep interested, so probably not.

The use of waste bin banging reminded me of Hurrah Torpedo doing their an excellent "industrial music"-ish version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZiXbnbh3bY

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Sadly Ian has deleted the post you link to...

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