I must thank madoc for alerting me to the delicious faux pas of the US Groover in Chief’s gift swap fiasco when UK PM Gordie Brown was in town a little while back.
For those who don’t know, Gordie bought Obie a fabulous pen holder carved from the timbers of a British warship that once did sterling work ending the slave trade.
Obie bought Gordie a cheap box set of DVDs from Walmart, but forgot to check the region coding, so they won’t actually play at Number 10.
Ever since I read that story, knowing that the Ruddbot would be mooching around the White House this week, I’ve been wondering how either man could possibly top that embarassing mismatch of pressies.
Suggestions?
I’d recommend a kangaroo scrotum purse pouch from our end, but I think it’s already been done.
I was surprised that someone whose White House is supposed to be so radically high-tech would give another world leader a set of DVDs anyway – aren’t they supposed to be old tech and on the way out anyway? Did anyone find out of theye wreer Blu Ray even? Maybe he is sending a hidden message that he belives that GB is the Beta-loser of world leaders?
Anyway – I could put together that collection down at JB Hi Fi and have change left from fifty bucks – it is a pretty poor gift by any account…
What the White House needs is a great big Emily Kane Kngwarre painting or something similar.
SJS – look up our Kevin’s history and you will see that he is the Aussie equivalent of being born on the wrong side of the tracks too…
I like the message the Obama’s sent, “Here’s your dusty, old bust of Winston and some old movies to keep you entertained while you live in the past. There’s little time for pomp and circumstance.”
J.
Actually, if Obama had included an Oppo DVD player, there would have been no problem (it’s “all-regions”).
What about an annual subscription to the Mini-burger for both of them. Obi-wan would get some much needed political viewpoints and the Ruddbot, well it could curb his bad language.
Just saying
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