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Sun Mar-08-09 05:21 PM
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50 Facts About Our President |
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Got this list in an email ~ hope they're all true and they haven't been posted too many times.
He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili His favorite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguine He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father He is left-handed the sixth post-war president to be left-handed He has read every Harry Potter book He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream His favorite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia He can speak Spanish While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead His favorite drink is black forest berry iced tea He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president he didn't He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia He can bench press an impressive 200lbs He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name His favorite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiance, but left when a stripper arrived His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books His favorite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee. His favorite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7) He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal His house in Chicago has four fire places Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry He uses an Apple Mac laptop He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300 He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13) His favorite fictional television programs are Mash and The Wire He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds His favorite artist is Pablo Picasso His specialty as a cook is chili He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins" He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government
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Sun Mar-08-09 05:26 PM
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1. This one will cause great dismay among the religious types |
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He has read every Harry Potter book
All that sorcery and everything.
:rofl:
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:03 PM
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3. Yikes, he really is a heathen! |
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Mon Mar-09-09 09:23 AM
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16. out loud to the girls, iirc. nt |
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Sun Mar-08-09 05:31 PM
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2. Call Me Cynic -- "favorite book is Moby-Dick"? NOBODY'S even read Moby Dick, much less really |
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thinks of it as a favorite, outside a grad student pretentious-fest (after they memorized the cliff notes)
20 pages describing the fuckin' difference between the anatomy of sperm whales & right whales? UNBELIEVABLE!
He must have been getting paid by the word, why use one when 10 will do?
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:04 PM
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4. Well, the book was written when people had longer attention spans... |
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Edited on Sun Mar-08-09 06:04 PM by polichick
...and fewer distractions.
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:06 PM
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5. Hey, at least it didn't say "Ulysses"!! |
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It's credible that someone might actually read "Moby Dick" but NO ONE has ever read a James Joyce novel past the second page!
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Mon Mar-09-09 07:02 AM
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14. I've read A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man several times. Loved it! |
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Mon Mar-09-09 09:42 AM
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Ulysses is an effort, though.
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:51 PM
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I read the whole thing.. ( didn't care for it much). . I prefer Verne, Kipling, Dickens. .
Sometimes a lush vocabulary enhances the experience.
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:09 PM
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6. Thanks. I book marked. |
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:46 PM
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:43 PM
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7. Thanks, polichick..I know for a fact |
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Edited on Sun Mar-08-09 06:44 PM by Cha
this isn't true.."He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream.
We've seen Prez Obama eating ice cream cones all over the place on the trail.. especially that one with VP Biden stands out where Joe had a cone in each hand. ~oO> ~oO>
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Sun Mar-08-09 06:47 PM
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9. Hope he likes Ben & Jerry's YES PECAN! |
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Sun Mar-08-09 07:08 PM
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he and the fam have taste tested that one.
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Sun Mar-08-09 07:18 PM
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12. But it looks like the ice cream thing is true... |
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Sun Mar-08-09 07:23 PM
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13. Wow..well, I guess he |
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Edited on Sun Mar-08-09 07:24 PM by Cha
was being polite when on the campaign trail and someone offered him a cone. The plot thickens.. Kinda like that cigarette thing..no one knows for sure.
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Mon Mar-09-09 08:14 AM
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15. Actually, Baskin Robbins has a weird texture for ice cream |
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I was never able to like their ice cream. If I had worked there, I might have generalized that I didn't like ice cream, but still occasionally indulged in any but Baskin Robbins ice cream.
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Mon Mar-09-09 12:07 PM
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21. Their Peanut Butter and Chocolate is pretty good.. |
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Although I've never been impressed with BR's lack of fat content. I choose Haagen Dazs whenever possible because it feels like butta in my mouth.
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Mon Mar-09-09 09:31 AM
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17. "He applied to appear in a pin-up calendar while at Harvard" |
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Edited on Mon Mar-09-09 09:32 AM by Jennicut
Whoo-hoo. Can we get a calender now? Uh, never mind.
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Mon Mar-09-09 09:50 AM
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19. We share one bad habit - I can't leave my BlackBerry alone |
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Mon Mar-09-09 11:21 AM
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20. "Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita" |
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Mon Mar-09-09 02:04 PM
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22. His father was a socialist economist ... |
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