All this weekend I'm going to be at a big stutterers convention in the city.
It is celebrating 30 years of the Australian Speak Easy Association, a big support network for stutterers, run by stutterers. I have kind of gotten involved with them over the past 12 months.
It should be really helpful and interesting, with lots of different seminars and workshops etc. I'm looking forward to it very much.
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
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I hope it's a great time for you Ben :)
On a less personal note, is it just me, or is that a really strange name for an association? Was it supposed to be a pun? Or is it actually a mafia front?
Thanks, Stuart.
Strange how so? Do you mean because speaking isn't easy for stutterers?
Yeah, that occurred to me too, but I guess it's more like a goal to aspire to.
Maybe if it was called the Australian Can't Get A Flaming Word Out Foundation it wouldn't get as many members.
Oh, no. Sorry, that would have been a cruel comment.
What I meant was, a speakeasy is a place that sells illegal alcohol. The Mob had them stitched up during the Prohibition.
Oh right, you know I didn't know that. I'll have to look that one up on wiki..
Don't worry, I wasn't offended, though I was contemplating how to smuggle that horse head into your bed.
Ah, well, if you with your encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture weren't aware of that, then maybe the people who created the association didn't know, either. And maybe almost no one in the general population knows, and the only people who are laughing are the gangsters and their molls, and in turn the general public laughs at us who are Casa-Nostra wannabes and hopeless Depression-era film-and-book nerds. Maybe.
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