Obama Prezzies

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100da...ift-brown-dvds/

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President Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a set of 25 classic American films to mark his historic visit to the White House, British media reported on Friday.

 

Brown, the first European leader to visit Obama since his Jan. 20 inauguration, was presented with a "special collector's box" of DVDs during his two-day visit to Washington.

 

Downing Street, which reportedly tried to keep the present a secret, declined to say what movies were included in the set.

 

"One reason for the secrecy might be that the gift seems markedly less generous and thoughtful than the presents taken to Washington by the Prime Minister," London's Evening Standard newspaper reported. [hat comment: fox news is fair and balanced, and not tacky at all]

 

The Daily Mail, however, reported the movie set included ET, Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz and was produced by the American Film Institute on "special request" from the White House.

 

Brown, who is not known to be a movie buff, gave the president and his children several uniquely historical gifts.

 

The first of which is a pen holder fashioned from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, a Navy vessel that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.

 

Another treasure given to Obama is a framed commissioning paper for HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy ship that came to symbolize British-American goodwill when it was rescued by the U.S. from icebergs and given to Queen Victoria. It is the sister ship of the HMS Gannet.

 

Finally, Brown gave Obama a first edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.

I can see Obama saying "Er, yes, thanks bro..." as he casually nudges the pen holder into a drawer along with the one George Washington used, "...have you seen The Fountain yet?"

I'm sure the white house has closets full of fucking pen holdiers used by Taft when he was on the shitter or something. If Obama's gift was tacky, Brown's was stuffy and unimaginative. Personally, I'd rather the DVDs.

edit: seriously though, LOL

Tacky and unimaginative? Brown's gifts are pretty cool really.

for the record, i'll never be happy to receive a pen holder as a gift, unless i can ebay it for big $$

i wager obama caused this ruckus deliberately -- to say, i'm not some stuffy bureaucrat, and i'm not going to spend big $$$ on prezzies for stuffy bureaucrats. and it'll make people shit their pants (quiet presedential giggle follows that thought)

and i've never heard of that navy thing.

20 dvds for a visiting world leader

thats respect right there

the "special relationship" continues

so far seems like UK watmmers don't like this one

  jim said:

20 dvds for a visiting world leader

 

thats respect right there

 

the "special relationship" continues

I heard the plan is to keep mailing him a new one every week until he cancels his membership. It's part of the stimulus bill.

actually, they're burned DVDs -- obama got the torrents off pirate bay. white house has got killer upstream.

they are both rich out of the ass anyway. why need gifts?

Its just a reminder that somewhere in there, they still have a soul.

I thought the topic said "Obama Pretzels". Left disappointed.

Here you go assesgai-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettdavis/3216306343/

who calls presents prezzies? why does this thread piss me off?

I bet he gave him NTSC dvds as well. fool.

lol, that would be brilliant

Id have got him a deep-fried kebab and a case of Newcastle Brown.

  AOOproductions said:

I bet he gave him NTSC dvds as well. fool.

hahahaha

  hahathhat said:

I can see Obama saying "Er, yes, thanks bro..." as he casually nudges the pen holder into a drawer along with the one George Washington used, "...have you seen The Fountain yet?"

lol!

the sentiment of the gifts to obama are much more thoughtful and representative of the US/UK relationship than the gift from obama though.

  AOOproductions said:

I bet he gave him NTSC dvds as well. fool.

/thread

psh, it's just cementing our status as america's bitch.

did anyone see gordon's address? i actually watched it all the way through, it was fucking surreal. all this sycophantic rhetoric and emotion and religion - it's the norm in america but over here you'd get laughed out of parliament. half of me was thinking "what a silly tosser" but another half was quite enjoying watching him free to talk like that. again, it was weird.

  AOOproductions said:

I bet he gave him NTSC dvds as well. fool.

shit, that would be the headpiece on a pyramid of LOL.

  beneboi said:

who calls presents prezzies? why does this thread piss me off?

definitely something to take up with your therapist

I'd love that first-edition biography set. I generally collect fiction and poetry but why not?

  chaosmachine said:

I heard the plan is to keep mailing him a new one every week until he cancels his membership. It's part of the stimulus bill.

:teeth:

  AOOproductions said:

I bet he gave him NTSC dvds as well. fool.

that's the first thing I thought when I read the original post lol.

  autopilot said:

  chaosmachine said:

I heard the plan is to keep mailing him a new one every week until he cancels his membership. It's part of the stimulus bill.

 

:teeth:

yes i should have mentioned this also spawned a lol from my jaded internets heart

DVD Collection?

BWAA HAA HAA HAA HAAAAAAA!!! HOW COMMON INDEED.

Seriously though, they would have just given these gifts a tick of approval.

fuck, not even blu-ray's??? actually, they were probably VHS cassettes.