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Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 03:53 PM
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LOL! Official Calls Bush-Chimp Comparison Bad Taste - I don't!!
Belgian trainers helping police to understand body language have caused a controversy by likening George Bush's facial expressions to a chimpanzee's.

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The training presentation pictured the U.S. president's face in various expressions beside photographs of a chimpanzee, the paper showed on its front page, in what was meant to be a humorous introduction to the subject of reading expressions.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=18&u=/nm/odd_belgium_bush_dc

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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 03:54 PM
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1. Those wacky Flems.
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 03:54 PM
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2. Maybe the chimps were offended.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 06:42 PM
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13. Can the chimps sue Georgie for copyright infringement of their faces?
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 03:56 PM
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3. maybe they got the comparison shots of du, lol lol n.t
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:25 PM
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4. Hey, where's that DUer who posted those comparisions
Edited on Thu Mar-31-05 04:25 PM by Sequoia
of monkeys and the chimpster a couple months ago? This is sure funny.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:36 PM
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9. Something like this. . .






go to www.bushorchimp.com

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Gothmog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:30 PM
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5. LOL Remember the urinal targets with Bush's face
The Belgians have a problem with Bush evidently.
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_TJ_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:32 PM
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6. That is insulting to the president !
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:36 PM
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8. That's a good look for him. (Relatively speaking.)
More proof of that evolution "theory."
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:34 PM
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7. That story's getting high recommendations.
I gave it a 5.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:38 PM
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10. There was a time when someone from another country
Edited on Thu Mar-31-05 04:39 PM by Snotcicles
made fun of our president I would get ticked. Now I'm so embarrassed with the one we have and his followers I just laugh and laugh and give em the old thumbs up.
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Kinkistyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 04:38 PM
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11. Hey! Thats insulting to chimps!!
I mean really, I don't know many chimpanzees who start illegal wars over oil and kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in the process.
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Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 06:39 PM
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12. That's a very good point.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 06:46 PM
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14. Next time I go to the zoo...
I'm leaving a sign at the chimp cage that reads:

This is NOT the cage our "president" comes from.
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