The reverse Tinkerbell effect
MARK RENDERS/Getty Images Bono was playing a U2 concert in Glasgow recently, when he asked the audience for total quiet. Then in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in rapt attention, he leaned into the microphone and said, “Every time I clap my hands, a ...
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Bono was playing a U2 concert in Glasgow recently, when he asked the audience for total quiet.
Then in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds.
Holding the audience in rapt attention, he leaned into the microphone and said, “Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”
A Glaswegian voice rang out from the back of the crowd, piercing the silence …
“Well, f***in’ stop doing it then!”
(Joke adapted from Needlenose)
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