Thank you for that flaccid introduction. I should have written it better myself.
It was a big favor to come here and a tremendous chore to get here, and still, I'm astonishingly nervous to be here.
Nervous, because, I know full well, and so do you, that what I like to talk about, you don't really care about, and what you really care about, I have nothing new to say about.
So I'm relying on a combination of your native conventionality and cowardice, and hoping groupthink outstrips the mob mentality for long enough that I may get out of here with my life.
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Thanks for listening, and now it is my social duty to condescend to answer some of your passive-aggressive gripes disguised as questions.
This is very funny – Did Ambrose Bierce really say it?
Cindy Starks
No, he possessed me, and I said it.