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* Something kinky for the late night Putin fans
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Out og all the characters in world leadership he would be the most interesting
B Calm
(28,762 posts)After watching the video there was a link to the Tea Party asking should Obama be impeached. WTF
vaberella
(24,634 posts)This was great. Thanks for sharing.
East Coast Pirate
(775 posts)but that's a nice pike. I doubt he caught it.
7962
(11,841 posts)that were setups or faked. And that fish doesnt look like it weighs 50 lbs either. The Russian bloggers are already having a field day with this one.
Remember his diving trip when he "found" the ancient jar? The faked hang gliding with the geese or flamingos? And we thought GWB was something with the carrier landing......
Ino
(3,366 posts)I can't believe he caught that fish with his shirt on!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I think in this country, that would not go over well at all.
Ino
(3,366 posts)"It was an unplanned meeting people just came up and started talking to me," Putin said. "He seemed very independent and serious. At the same time a child is always defenseless and nice. I wanted to stroke him like a cat and it came out in this gesture. There was nothing behind it."
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-07-06-putin-kiss_x.htm
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Its always your round. Would.love.to have a beer with this guy just to see seewhat makes him tick.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)No way.
MADem
(135,425 posts)People think it steenks like old fish!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-russia-putin-fish-idUSBRE96S0CU20130729?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
Russians smell something fishy in Putin's latest stunt
....the images of the 60-year-old president hauling in a pike which the Kremlin said weighed 21 kg (46 pounds) proved too much for some Russians to swallow.
Within hours, online satirists were questioning whether the incident was staged and whether the pike was really as big as the Kremlin said.
"Wonder who planted that fish for Putin to catch," said a caption placed under two online pictures, one of Putin holding the fish and the other showing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev emerging from a river in a wetsuit with a satisfied look.
Experienced anglers posted photographs of large pike they had caught, questioning the size and weight of the ex-KGB officer's catch.
One photo caption called it "Churov's Pike" - a reference to election commission chief Vladimir Churov who is accused by the opposition of conjuring victory for Putin's party in elections which they say were marred by fraud. He denies doing so....