Wednesday
What is the world coming to? A man who has not confiscated money from taxpayers, oppressed anyone or plundered their way into wealth was allowed to enter the UN and shake hands with all manner of sainted kleptocrats who are supposed to be there!
This is an inexcusable lapse of security... the predators of the world and their willing minions must be protected from being mocked by harmless capitalist restaurateurs! This must not be permitted to happen again!
The real value of the UN G.A. as a generator of "perceptions" should be duly (great word - duly) noted.
Posted by RRS at October 28, 2009 04:09 PM
He seems to be absolutely harmless - too bad: a missed opportunity if there ever was one.
Posted by Alisa at October 28, 2009 04:21 PM
Not quite as elaborate as this hoax:
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/hoaxes-in-history-the-boarding-of-the-hms-dreadnaught-part-1.htm
But, pretty funny anyway.
Posted by orcadrvr at October 28, 2009 06:11 PM
"It should not have happened – that I will stress, and very strongly," Michele Montas told Canwest News Service, the Canadian news agency.
No, we can't have these fools being made to look like fools, can we?
Posted by Sam Duncan, laughing like a drain at October 28, 2009 07:05 PM
As part of its campaign to promote a new menu range, KFC is "lobbying" the UN for the fictional Grilled Nation to be accepted as a member state.
What's the problem?
I can think of quite a few fictional Nations that are members already!
Lovely stuff!
Posted by RAB at October 28, 2009 07:26 PM
One could easily see how this could happen.
The former Libyan foreign minister was told "The Colonel" was here to shake his hand. Easy mistake to make, I guess.
Posted by Brad at October 28, 2009 08:21 PM
Kleptocracy is a good term. So is Plutocracy.
I once worked with a woman (in a bank) who had been a waitress at his first restaurant. She said he was a good boss; but, would go around the tables, taking portions of customer's meals and tasting them. If he didn't like it, he'd scream and curse and demand that they be given a new meal at his own cost.
Restaurants. UN. Showmanship.
Don't tip the doorman at the UN. It could be a president
Posted by cjf at October 28, 2009 08:40 PM
The link provided by orcadrvr (thank you) also will link to a hoax (I've not known or forgotten) by HLMencken
This demonstrated the sheer power of a successful
hoax; no amount of retraction by the originator could undo the 'common knowledge' Booboisee.
A friend of 35+ years (80 yrs old) recalls a story about a Miami, Florida newspaper, during WWII, having a man go about the streets of Miami, wearing a black Gestapo
uniform, complete with an unloaded Luger. armband, boots, etcetera.
Even police ignored him.
I have yet to find any trace of this story on the net.
However, my friend's memory for such detail has never
been wrong. Yet. (He enjoys hoaxes;but, never plays them)
Posted by cjf at October 28, 2009 09:35 PM
Colonel Sanders belongs at the U.N. Under his regime, billions, yes, BILLIONS have died for no other reason than being edible. Even if they were chickens, that should count.
Posted by Dr. Ellen at October 29, 2009 02:31 PM
I rather enjoyed the pictorial on the same page as that article, about weirdest 2010 calendars:
Posted by Darryl at October 30, 2009 05:29 AM
Dr. Ellen is right. The chickens! For God's sake, won't anyone think of the chickens?
Posted by Ernie G at November 1, 2009 04:33 PM
I have a modest proposal.
Let "Colonel Sanders" go unpunished - but arrest (and jail) all the high representatives at the United Nations.
After all no decent person has been such a high representative since John Bolton.
Of course Rothbardians would argue that John Bolton is not decent and should also be imprisoned - but I think Bolton would agree to that (if it was the only way of getting all the other high representatives and officials imprisoned).
Posted by Paul Marks at November 2, 2009 12:37 PM
