Where's the Protocol Office?? - Page 5

MysticCat · #61 03-12-2009, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

MysticCat's having a little fun in the marriage thread.

Hey, I think everyone who's posted in that thread has been having a little fun.

knight_shadow · #62 03-12-2009, 01:29 PM

That cat looks effing evil.

Senusret I · #63 03-12-2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

That cat looks effing evil.

Because it's MYSTIC.

MYSTIC = SORCERY

SORCERY = EVIL!

KSig RC · #64 03-12-2009, 01:33 PM

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Hey, I think everyone who's posted in that thread has been having a little fun.

The MC smiley is simply balls. I'm incredibly impressed.

MysticCat · #65 03-12-2009, 01:39 PM

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The MC smiley is simply balls. I'm incredibly impressed.

And understandably so.

Sen may be in for some evil mojo, though.

honeychile · #66 03-12-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

That looks like one of the feral cats who consider our porch a buffet!

Senusret I · #67 04-01-2009, 02:50 PM

Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited the queen at the palace this evening and presented her with a gift of a video iPod with an inscription on it and songs pre-loaded. The Obamas also gave the queen a rare musical songbook signed by American composer Richard Rodgers.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Inter...7226337&page=1

And

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_181862.html

SWTXBelle · #68 04-01-2009, 03:12 PM

MUCH better job in the gift department - the songbook (assuming Her Majesty enjoys the composer) is unique, and the ipod is a great example of American ingenuity and technological know-how. I hope someone did his/her research, and the songs are favorites of the Queens.

agzg · #69 04-01-2009, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

MUCH better job in the gift department - the songbook (assuming Her Majesty enjoys the composer) is unique, and the ipod is a great example of American ingenuity and technological know-how. I hope someone did his/her research, and the songs are favorites of the Queens.

I can't be alone in hoping that one of the songs on it is Bohemian Rhapsody.

SWTXBelle · #70 04-01-2009, 05:36 PM

Queen does a rockin' acoustic version of "God Save the Queen" - so here's hoping~

RU OX Alum · #71 04-01-2009, 07:14 PM

I feel so bad for PM Brown. First his DVD's don't work, then the EU makes fun of him, then he gets called a white devil.

I want to buy that lad a pint, he's a tough go of it as of late, hannit he?

UGAalum94 · #72 04-01-2009, 07:37 PM

It's better than the DVDs, but the iPod still doesn't seem like a particularly good gift for an 82 year woman. But, who knows, maybe she'll love it; maybe she wanted one, (but if she did, it'd seem like she'd already have one.)

I think I'm just a fan of boringly traditional gifts for heads of state, now that we've been talking about it. If you can make a gift symbolic, so much the better, but I'd avoid technological stuff for octogenarians.

ETA: actually, now that I've seen what was uploaded http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...oes-one-g.html onto it, I like it better. I would have only put one Obama thing on it, but to give the Queen video of her state visit to the US in 1957 just seems really cute.

The songbook seems nice by my traditional standards.

The fact that "In return, the queen gave the Obamas a signed portrait of herself and her husband inside a silver frame," just makes me laugh. She wasn't really putting herself out, was she? Do you suppose it was a reflection of what happened with Brown?

moe.ron · #73 04-01-2009, 11:27 PM

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The fact that "In return, the queen gave the Obamas a signed portrait of herself and her husband inside a silver frame," just makes me laugh. She wasn't really putting herself out, was she? Do you suppose it was a reflection of what happened with Brown?

I doubt it. The Queen enjoy giving a photo of herself to everybody. I think Obama should sell on Ebay to pay for the AIG bailout.

SWTXBelle · #74 04-03-2009, 08:13 AM

http://www.slate.com/id/2215268/

MysticCat · #75 04-03-2009, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

MUCH better job in the gift department - the songbook (assuming Her Majesty enjoys the composer) is unique, and the ipod is a great example of American ingenuity and technological know-how. I hope someone did his/her research, and the songs are favorites of the Queens.

From what I heard the iPod included numerous Broadway shows and videos of the Queen's visits to the States.

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I feel so bad for PM Brown. First his DVD's don't work . . .

Did anyone ever actually confirm that the DVD's didn't work. Because since the DVDs were provided by the American Film Institute, I'm still calling "unfounded assumption" on that.