Air Force One arrives at Heathrow and President Bush strides to a warm and dignified handshake from the Queen. They ride in a 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London where they board a magnificent 17th century carriage hitched to 6 magnificent white horses. They ride towards Buckingham Palace waving to the thousands of cheering Britons, all is going well. Suddenly the right rear horse lets fly with the most horrendous earth shattering fart ever heard in the British Empire and the smell was excruciating, both of them had to use handkerchiefs over their noses. The fart shakes the coach but the two dignitaries of state do their best to ignore the incident. The Queen turns to President Bush, "Mr. President please accept my regrets... I am sure you understand there are some things that even a Queen cannot control."

George Bush, always trying to be "presidential," replies. "Your Majesty do not give the matter another thought... If you had not mentioned it I would have thought it was one of the horses."

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A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:48 pm Air Force One arrives at Heathrow and President Bush strides to a warm and dignified handshake from the Queen. They ride in a 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London where they board a magnificent 17th century carriage hitched to 6 magnificent white horses. They ride towards Buckingham Palace waving to the thousands of cheering Britons, all is going well. Suddenly the right rear horse lets fly with the most horrendous earth shattering fart ever heard in the British Empire and the smell was excruciating, both of them had to use handkerchiefs over their noses. The fart shakes the coach but the two dignitaries of state do their best to ignore the incident. The Queen turns to President Bush, "Mr. President please accept my regrets... I am sure you understand there are some things that even a Queen cannot control."

George Bush, always trying to be "presidential," replies. "Your Majesty do not give the matter another thought... If you had not mentioned it I would have thought it was one of the horses."

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Just a small point for historical accuracy, President Bush was not greeted by any crowds at all of cheering Britons. No Brits where trusted to be anywhere near him in London and none wanted to come out anyway.

The historical joke of the day and an accurate point is that many hundreds of people chose to pull down an effigy of President Bush and actually, they trampled on it. We saw it on TV here, maybe MSNBC were looking elsewhere!

I trust that NPR featured it at least.

This isn't intended as a tirade, simply a comment that while we have one poodle in Britain - we do not have 60 million.

sacmec,

Did I say "cheering"? My mistake, I meant "Jeering".

Sorry...

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A-1 (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:45 pm

sacmec,

Did I say "cheering"? My mistake, I meant "Jeering".

Sorry...

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Maybe I ought to say that alot of people here have become very indifferent about all politicians and all "spin". Feelings between the peoples of the UK and the USA remain broadly friendly on an individual basis. It's just a shame most politicians are "dick heads". No offence was meant to you by my posting,

Ok babe.

sacmec,

I too, want to be on friendly terms with you.

BUT...Yes,...Ahem!..uh,

...what about that guy who drove the truck with the bomb into the government building in Iraq killing 20 people in Baghdad, most of them Iraqis, during rush hour.

You talk about your dickheads...you can hide a lot with religion.

I am just glad that they haven't done to England what they pulled in America in NewYork.

sacmec, my friend, theres one thing about a fight. It usually is enevitable if one side has made up their mind that a fight is what they want. I that case it is better if you must fight to be able to choose the time and the place.

GW Bush has chosen Iraq to be the place and the time to be now. I support his choice. At least Tony Blair hasn't came to the good people of the United Kingdom with a cock and bull story of having "...secured peace in our time..." like Neville Chamberlin did when he tried to appease Adolf Hitler by giving him Czechoslovakia when it was not his to give.

My friend, these people understand only one thing at this point. It is sad, but we have tried the appeasment route before and it ended up costing the lives of millions.

Witness how Mommar Qadaffi (sp.) has renounced developing weapons of mass destruction. Also, notice how the leaders in the People's Republic of China have calmed the fears of North Korea. In addition, Japan, has sent troops to help us, your country and mine, in Iraq.

Make no mistake, the world has changed. It changed in the twinkling of an eye one bright Fall morning in September 2001.

All of the crying and protesting in the world about George Bush unfortunately will never put two buildings up and bring over 2000 souls back to life.

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We should thank our lucky stars that Paul ONeil had the guts to reveal what many Americans and most people overseas believed all along; that Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rove, etc. had told George II we could "take out" Iraq long before the attacks of September 11. Bin Laden simply gave these right wing imperialists a convenient cover story for their naked agression against a country which was, by all reasonable reports (I said "reasonable," so Fox News is out) not involved in the September 11 attacks.

Funny that since Iraq has turned out to be logistical nightmare, a money pit, and the cause of the deaths of over 500 young Americans (and thousands of Iraqis), the people handling George II are now whining that the United Nations has to help control the situation on the ground in Iraq.

Unfortunately, with the right-wing republican machine working hard to rig our elections (Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado redistricting, the 2000 presidential debacle, etc) those of us here in the US can expect to see this great experiment in democracy gradually crushed by people like Tom DeLay. Dark days are ahead.

TBfromPHG,

...and all of my other friends.

It is time to put some perspective to this whole thing.

Look at these facts and think about it.

Facts ... click here... (http://www.solport.com/blog/000007.html)

I am tired of this Iraq thing, too. But the thing is, when you make an example people do notice. Don't you think?

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Oh come on folks it was a JOKE! And a much older one than you might think as I read the same account only with a visiting South African what- twenty years ago?

I recall Prince Phillip recalling that those horses often farted anyway, just par of the course for the Royal's.

Quillman UK

A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:48 pm Air Force One arrives at Heathrow and President Bush strides to a warm and dignified handshake from the Queen. They ride in a 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London where they board a magnificent 17th century carriage hitched to 6 magnificent white horses. They ride towards Buckingham Palace waving to the thousands of cheering Britons, all is going well. Suddenly the right rear horse lets fly with the most horrendous earth shattering fart ever heard in the British Empire and the smell was excruciating, both of them had to use handkerchiefs over their noses. The fart shakes the coach but the two dignitaries of state do their best to ignore the incident. The Queen turns to President Bush, "Mr. President please accept my regrets... I am sure you understand there are some things that even a Queen cannot control."

George Bush, always trying to be "presidential," replies. "Your Majesty do not give the matter another thought... If you had not mentioned it I would have thought it was one of the horses."

who the fuck is george bush?

QUESTION

"...who the fuck is george bush?"

Well,

The Bush family is a large family from the great state of Texas. The Bush family has lived in Texas for generations and the males of the family go back to the days of the cowboys when the area was being settled.

The males of the family for generations have been excellent scouts and and hunters learning the techniques of survival from the indigenous Indian tribes. The tribes, however, were reluctant to let backward white men court, date and mate with the females in the Indian culture.

Consequently, the Bush boys learned to hide in the Bushes and watch the Indian maidens as they bathed at the lakes and rivers in Texas, hiding in the foliage that grew abundantly around the water. Hence their name, BUSH.

For sexual relief, they always masturbated because they knew if they forced themselves sexually on the Indian women, that the braves would hunt them down and either kill them or castrate them or perhaps scalp them.

Soon the Indians braves learned what was happening from the semen all over the place. So, they would accompany the women to their favorite bathing places and hide in the folage and knock the Bush boys in the head when they showed up.

Sometimes, they did not catch the Bush boys and sometimes they did. At any rate, the frontier term BUSHWACKING grew out of one practice or another, the historians are unclear on which way that it was...

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