ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEBS: My grandpa used to have one of these in his office and I was always jealous of it. But, now we all have our very own PRESIDENT OBAMA DIPPY BIRD toy!

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Monday, November 16, 2009

My grandpa used to have one of these in his office and I was always jealous of it. But, now we all have our very own PRESIDENT OBAMA DIPPY BIRD toy!

Even this waterless version can´t hold a candle to the latest thing to hit the market. So...

Out with the old...

...in with the new. Just insert your world leader/king/despot of choice, and voilá! One really dippy president.

Meeting with a carefully screened group of students at the marquee event of his Asia trip, President Obama on Monday sought to advance what he called America's "core principles" during his first public appearance in China.

Um, Obama is far better acquainted with footwear trends among the world´s elite than he´ll ever be with America´s core principles. Regardless, he must´ve felt right at home in these Chinese "town hall-style meeting[s]" in Shanghai.

Virtually every aspect of the event was staged...Obama's audience, selected and coached beforehand by university officials, came from eight different Shanghai universities. A small, random sampling suggested the vast majority were members of the Communist Party. Many of the eight questions put to the president by students echoed Chinese government talking points.

So they wore red instead of purple. Otherwise...

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El Cerdo Ignatius · 802 weeks ago

Out with the old...
...in with the new. Just insert your world leader/king/despot of choice, and voilá! One really dippy president.

Hahahahahahaha!!! A waterless dunking bird! Haven't seen that one before. Did you see the site - somewhere, I'll try to find where - with all the photos of the dignitaries shaking hands with Akihito? All of them must have been taken at the point where they were upright, either right before or right after the bow.

Wait! You mean... only Obama bows? The others didn't?

And regarding the "Chinese town hall" meeting - reminds me of your potted plants post from a couple of months back, heh heh heh!!

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El Cerdo Ignatius · 802 weeks ago

And now the nitpicky stuff: voilà has un accent grave. I know of no word in French that uses the letter a with an acute accent. And yes, I agree, given that you can make your way around in French, and are fluent in Spanish, whereas I'm fluent in French but my Spanish sucks, I'm really not worthy to write such things.

On the other hand - maybe with this new live dipping bird toy, the accent in voilà really should be acute. The bow surely is.

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Mike 49p · 802 weeks ago

The devil is in the details, as always. I even looked at that twice and thought, I should google it to be sure (cuz I was obviously taught it at some point); but didn´t. That´s what I get for being a slug. Thing with Spanish is, there are so few of those little suckers (and when there are, the pronunciation is a dead giveaway) and so many of the others that it´s just natural for my pinky to pop over and tap the key.

Grazie, commendatori!

Oh, btw, I know Ed Morrissey had a huge compilation of non-bowing digs at HotAir. Might be the one you´re thinking of.