Imagine the people of Ireland had a referendum to decide their all-time greatest pop hero.
Imagine that enough of them (not necessarily a majority) voted for Bono, and that he was thereby crowned Greatest Irish Pop Legend, despite the fact that a significant proportion of Irish residents would have rather given the award to Chris DeBurgh, Boyzone or even fucking Jedward - anyone but that unutterable gimp Paul Hewson.
Imagine you could only vote in this referendum if you were Irish, and that the rest of the world could only look on in horror, BUT... as a consequence of the result, every single person on the face of the planet was forced to see Bono's smug mush on TV every night for the next 5 years, and we all had to listen to at least one U2 album a week BY LAW.
I don't know why I dreamt all this last night. It must have been something I ate.
Here's Stephin Merritt and the Gothic Archies...
Seems like you had a real nightmare, Rol
ReplyDeleteI'm sure a psychologist could read something into that Rol
ReplyDeleteI voted for Joe Dolan
ReplyDeleteFortunately, as Bono has previously held this high office before (what were you thinking of, voters?) he only gets to serve one more four year term (not five years - a small mercy), unless he decides he wants to go on forever and so repeals the 22nd Amendment of the constitution ... of the Irish Pops Legends Assembly. That's what we're talking about here, right?
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