What is the funniest political story you can think of from around the world. I once

[applegrove]

read an anticle in the late 1980s about an African Prime Minister who was not only prime minister - he also read the news every night on the tv. I thought that was brilliant.

[polly7]

1. Off the top of my head,

I'd have to say Mrs. Chretien's handling of the bedroom intruder.

"On November 5, 1995, an intruder, André Dallaire, broke into the Prime Minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive, in Ottawa, Ontario. Awake next to her sleeping husband, Aline Chrétien confronted the intruder at their bedroom door. Seeing that he was armed with a large knife, she slammed the door and locked it, then woke her husband." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Chr%C3%A9tien

[applegrove]

6. I think they were both traumatized by that event.

[polly7]

8. Yes, I imagine.

I thought she'd actually knocked out the guy with a stone statue, but apparently not, according to Wikipedia. That was the story at the time, though.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. I thought Chretein was funny,

when he throttled an assailant/protester due to his inept RCMP secret service. I still remember the pictures, and his black leather gloves always make me think of him as the Shawinigan Strangler. Talk about taking matters into his own hands.

[polly7]

3. LOL Yes. I remember that.

I miss him!

[applegrove]

5. Yes he was a great PM. He and Martin saved Canada's early to mid future by putting us on such sound

economic ground. He's a good egg.

[applegrove]

4. Oh I think the strangle happened because the PM was traumatized from the

earlier home invasion and could not handle someone in his space. I can relate.

[applegrove]

7. Then there was a time when the queen was in Australia. Paul Hogan was giving a speech

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welcoming her. He invited her over to his house and started to give her city bus directions.

[Marie Marie]

14. Now that's funny.

[SwissTony]

16. Comedian Catherine Tate plays an annoying schoolgirl called Lauren

whose catchphrase is "Am I bovvered? Am I bovvered? Does this face look bovvered".

At a Royal Performance once, she turned to look at the queen and said "Is one's face bovvered?"

[Bennyboy]

9. Anonymous used 12345 as the PW

and hacked Assad's computer a couple of weeks ago....

[TlalocW]

10. Mine is more local

During my college years at Pittsburg State in southeast Kansas (Go Gorillas!), I got the KC Star every day. I seem to recall that an overly-verbose law was passed in Missouri (something dealing with sex education) that was so confusing that they took it to some professional linguists, English professors, etc. (after it was passed of course), and it turned out they had made sex in Missouri illegal.

TlalocW

[applegrove]

12. LOL!

[JFN1]

11. Gotta be Bush 1 throwing up on the Japanese Emporer...

That incident still cracks me up, and always reminds me of this:

"I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet!" -- line spoken by "Bush" to Homer in a brilliant episode of the Simpsons (fifth or sixth season).

[Joe Shlabotnik]

13. lol, thats was good but it just reminded me of something else

Bush II dodging shoes in an Iraqi press conference. THAT was classic. Too bad one didn't wipe the smirk off his face that he maintained throughout the whole incident! (I think, he reverted to some childhood place where playing dodge-shoe was fun)

[Marie Marie]

15. Oh yeah - forgot about that.

Laughed my ass off every time I saw that.