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Obama's Blockbuster Gift for Brown: 25 DVDs (The Big Spender)
FOX NEWS ^
| 3/06/09
| FOX
Posted on 03/06/2009 3:31:35 AM PST by Doogle
Let's hope he's a Star Wars fan. President Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a set of 25 classic American films to mark his historic visit to the White House, British media reported on Friday.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brown; giftgate; gordonbrown; obama; uk; us
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To: Liberty Ship
I’d be impressed only if it included ‘Song of the South’.
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posted on
03/06/2009 3:52:37 AM PST
by
BelegStrongbow
(I'm still waiting for the One to say something that isn't a lie)
To: Doogle
Our closest and most trusted longtime ally, Great Britain, is not happy at all at being dissed by the First Victim Michelle and her baby daddy.
First they returned that Churchill bust to make room for some 'Native' art.
Then Obamah rushes the PM out the back door as quickly as possible so the family can retire to Wednesday's big party with their newfound Hollywood friends.
To: Doogle
Complainers are missing the reality. The real gift is being in the presence of “The 0”.
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posted on
03/06/2009 3:57:15 AM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: Doogle
What about the crappy gifts Mrs. O gave the kids?
To: BallyBill
...something Brown will undoubtedly “not recall” as the years past and the tragedy unfolds...*grins*
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:00:12 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
To: TheCipher
"....The idiot probably didn’t even give a proper set that is region coded to play on British DVD players......"
That was true for VHS tapes. Also true for DVD?
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:01:48 AM PST
by
Victor
(If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
To: KatyTexasMom
hey, some government employee had to search hi and low for a dollar store that had those Marine One's.....
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:01:51 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
The White House Protocol Office selects gifts for foreign heads of state. If it was inappropriate then someone there dropped the ball.
To: Doogle
Who moved in to the White House, the Beverly Hillbillies? I’m surprised he didn’t serve Mad Dog 40/40 with dinner.
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:03:08 AM PST
by
RU88
(The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
To: jpthomas
I have a zero zone DVD player which means I can play DVDs from anywhere. The whole thing is nothing but a monopoly, plutocrats divvying the world up between themselves. I live in Australia but can order anything I like from Amazon etc., America or U.K.
I would imagine that the No. 10 Downing St. would run to this, although it doesn’t make the gift any less thoughtless, classless and just generally insulting.
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:03:20 AM PST
by
Nipfan
(The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it - H L Mencken)
To: RU88
*LMAO*....this subject is just “prime” stuff for creative FReepers.....(too funny)
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:04:50 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
These DVD are not even playable in Great Britain. Different region. Another situation that was
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:06:20 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Archimedes--- Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum to place it, and I shall move the Earth)
To: Victor
Double issue with DVDs - the old NTSC versus PAL formatting that applied to video casettes still applies to DVDs with the added new feature of region coding (US is in Region 1, the UK is in Region 2, Australia is in Region 4, for example). To play DVDs from another region you need a region free DVD player, and if dealing with PAL versus NTSC or vice versa, the player has to be able to handle that as well. Many players sold in the UK can do this, but not all.
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:08:23 AM PST
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: Doogle
To: Loyal Buckeye
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:11:41 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: KatyTexasMom
To: Doogle
He should have just given the PM a case of Black & Milds.
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posted on
03/06/2009 4:18:39 AM PST
by
bethelgrad
(Chaplain serving my beloved Marine Corps in Iraq)
To: autumnraine
To: Doogle
Truth be known, the 0's never had a prepared gift for the Browns. Once the 0 realized the blunder the "gifts" were rush in from the gift shop.
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