The US of A....
I am very pleased to report that Barak Obama, the President of the mightiest nation on the planet, acted with great courage and fortitude and picked up his phone last night and phoned ViP.
Ring ring ring
"привет" Ok not everyone can read cyrillic
"Hello, ViP here"
"ViP, its President Barack Obama"
"Who?"
"President Barack Obama"
"From which country are you?"
"Come now ViP, its Barack! Remember the time you gave me that dead leg in the White House?"
"Yes, Yes...what do you want?"
"It's about that situation in the...."
"Hold-on a minute..." ViP to his aid while still on the line:
"Tell Bruschev to move another batallion to the border and add some long range artillery batteries - that should give those NATO punks something to think about."
"Sorry about that...where were we?"
"Well, now, see here ViP, we in the Western World are GRAVELY CONCERNED at this escalation in hostilities...."
"Piss off"
Phone line goes dead.
Those are the words that Obama used - "Grave concern". ViP must be shivering in his boots. Rumour has it that in cabinet meetings he refers to Obama, Dave, Angie and co as "his bitches". Is there any wonder why?
On a very different note my missus had a real moment of self actualisation today at work while witnessing brain surgery; I had a fleeting moment when I worked out a new Excel function. Job satisfaction is a relative thing :)
Out.