Stop F***in' Clappin'

Today's Toronto Star published an article on the whole Celebrity as Politician phenomenon wherein busy glamourous folks find time between making movies/music/the scene to rid the world of war/disease/poverty one gala at a time. For the most part the fans put up with their idols' proselytizing but sometimes it wears a little thin, as at this Bono concert:

There's an urban legend about Bono that has him playing a concert in Glasgow, when he asks the audience for total quiet. In the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone, "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies." A Glaswegian voice rings out from near the front of the crowd, piercing the silence... "Well, f---in' stop clappin' then!"