President 'Mungo' Bush - Texan Scottish Sheep-Hand [View All]

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(I found this in "The Scotsman" while following some blog links, anyone else see this?)

Sat 19 Feb 2005

President George Bush today recalled working on a Scottish sheep farm as a 14-year-old and joked about the name “Mungo”.

It happened as he was being interviewed at the White House by European journalists ahead of his trip to Belgium, Germany and Slovakia, beginning tomorrow.

He said he was also looking forward to going to Scotland in July for a meeting of the Group of Eight industrialised nations.

That prompted the president to tell a tale about meeting a Texan when he worked on a sheep farm in Scotland in the 1950s.

“I worked there as a 14-year-old kid,” Bush said. “I went from Texas to Scotland to work on a sheep farm. I’m riding a bike. ... A big tour bus stops. They got off and a woman with a Texas accent (said): ‘Look at the little Scottish boy!’

“I kept my mouth shut,” he added.

Bush also shared a joke when a British reporter asked him to autograph a book for his son, called Mungo.
pearing bemused by the name, the president said: “Can you imagine if my name had been Mungo Bush?”

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