Monday, April 18, 2011

Fidel Castro Makes World's Longest Speech at Lake Taihu

Interrupting a series of social engagements in
the Suzhou Expatdom, the patriarchal Caribbean strongman
strode-purposefully across the lake to the Wuxi China Expatdom Freeport,
to address the two billion people awaiting the return of the WCE contingent.

Eschewing modern technologies by using a hand-held megaphone,
("I am not a tool of that baron, Trumpet", he growled), Fidel began by
warning of the dangers of global-cooling, "the greatest moral challenge of my
next two centuries",
he chuntered.

His voice a deep, booming basso profundo, he
spent the following 9 hours and 10 minutes in a wide-ranging
discourse on a diversity of topics, including the
filmography of Tom Mix, frogs, nudism, dentistry, goats,
his passionate love for both the Loch Ness Monster
and Governor Michael Dukakis, and also his encyclopedic-
knowledge of everything.

4 comments:

  1. And he out-did his own previous
    record - 7 hours, 10 minutes, Havana, 1986.
    (per Guiness Book). Phew!

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  2. Why wasn't the son of bitch summarily executed when he dared step on the freedom loving soil of the Wuxi China Expatdom?

    What a disgraceful moment! I hope the crowd had enought decency to ignore him.

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  3. They were not at all happy. Told him to
    go away, and stick to carrying coffins.

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  4. My el grando speech was mucho gusto-excellente!

    But the sound of that crowd yelling bad things at me was so loud that it could be heard back in my beloved Cuba!

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