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|10.6.05 @ 12:50PM|#
Is that an illusion, or is W actually holding the phone upside down?
Reporter: "Mr. President, photo op coming, think fast!"
W: "Oh, uh, here, I'll pretend like I'm talking on the phone."
Reporter: "Uh, Mr. President? The phone is -- "
W: "Hurry up and take the picture, will you? I'm late for a meeting!"
|10.6.05 @ 1:03PM|#
If memory serves, that's a popular "Bush is dumb"
Photoshop gag that made the rounds a while back.
|10.6.05 @ 1:11PM|#
What does Nick need Veronique for? Can't he write good solo?
|10.6.05 @ 1:40PM|#
I guess this was before my time, but, was LBJ famous for picking his dog up by the ears? Somebody fill me in pleeze.
Ruthless:
See, "Nick Gillespie" is so...pedestrian. Putting "Veronique De Rugy" in the byline adds a subtle note of exoticism to the authorship.
|10.6.05 @ 2:02PM|#
....was LBJ famous for picking his dog up by the ears?
Yes.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/FAQs/dog/doghouse.asp
Scroll to second picture.
Another time he showed off his Gall Bladder surgery scar.
|10.6.05 @ 2:29PM|#
all that's left for the transformation to be complete is for Mr. Bush to pick his dog up by the0 ears.
That and moving his staff meetings into the bathrom when he needs to take a dump. ;-)
|10.6.05 @ 3:31PM|#
Flashbacks of Ellbeejay's gunsnbutter: Did anyone else see this about stagflation?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/06/BUGCMF30J31.DTL&type=business
Evan,
Veronique is an "exotic"? I love those... especially hairy exotics.