Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159627/To-special-friend-Gordon-25-DVDs-Obama-gives-Brown-set-classic-movies-Lets-hope-likes-Wizard-Oz.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...-Oz.html</a> Well this has the potential to be a faux pas along the likes of Bush I puking at that state dinner. Or Clinton probably hitting on some foreign dignitaries wife.
Originally Posted By DAR Or this: <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=Bush%20Dancing&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ei=CPK9SantDZDhtgf-q5z4Cw&resnum=0&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv" target="_blank">http://video.google.com/videos...N&tab=wv</a>#
Originally Posted By Mr X At first, I sort of agreed. But reading beyond the headlines... ***But the Mail has learned it included classics such as Star Wars, The Godfather and Citizen Kane and was produced by the American Film Institute as a 'special request' for the White House last month.*** Okay, this is quite a bit more significant than I originally thought. It's not some box set from Wal-Mart (as the noise machine would lead you to believe), but rather a one of a kind collection specially chosen by the AFI. What faux pas? Certainly nothing as bad as puking on someone. Come on!
Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/11/the-25-dvds-barackobama-gave-prime-minister-gordon-brown/" target="_blank">http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/...n-brown/</a> Well when you see what Brown gave to Obama, it does look a little chintzy. And they were specially chosen by the AFI. Well then it's good to know that the Prime Minister of Great Britain and myself have similiar dvds. It's getting late, so I'm going to catch a few winks.
Originally Posted By ecdc I like the DVDs, but I wonder if they took into account the region difference and bought the region 2 versions of all these DVDs. Seriously. That could be awkward - he goes home, pops it in the player, and it won't play because it's the wrong region and NTSC encoded. Ouch.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Ehh. . . not the best move, given what Brown gave Obama. It's almost like your grandma giving you a Ming vase and you giving her a gift card to Wal-Mart for Christmas. Of course, I doubt Obama knew ahead of time what he was getting from Brown. He may make it up next time.
Originally Posted By Mr X Can't we just outlaw this "heads of state gift giving" crap altogether!? Apparently, it is already outlawed. The only reason the gifts are accepted, according to white house logs, is because rejecting such a gift would cause international tension. Screw that, reject all of it. If one wants to give a gift informally as one friend to another, let them do it in private. It's up to the President or official in question to declare it for tax purposes if required.
Originally Posted By gadzuux This silly little situation has already been turned into a GEICO commercial, and played for laughs. The turnaround time from headline to pop culture reference is getting to be lightspeed these days.
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Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...ng-obam/</a> Well, turns out I called it. Brown can't even watch the DVD's because of the region code.
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Originally Posted By Dabob2 No kidding, DAR. Beau, just what do you think you're accomplishing by having your posts here for 10 minutes before they're admin'd and almost no one even sees them?
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Originally Posted By WorldDisney LOL, I just read about this here. Oh well!! That said, Kevin Rudd, Australia's Prime Minister will be leaving here to visit Obama in a few days, so I'm guessing Obama's gift will be a little nicer now. Trust me, whatever it will be, we are going to now here about it on every newscast here . I'm guessing the way Rudd spends the cash here, Obama will get something very shiney .
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Yeah, Kevin Rudd, or as he is 'fondly' known here, 'Mr. 737' for his huge amount of travel he does here since he rarely seems to be in Australia half the time .
