I saw this photo last night on ABC News, and found it so odd I couldn’t stop staring at it.
Then I thought it should have a caption, but I’m no good at kooky captions. The best I could come up with is “Look at me, I’m President Bush and on my left is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and on my right is French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and some of us look like we’re in front of a green screen and others of us look like old Muppets and still others of us just look sad.”
Perhaps you can do better.
Sorry, no caption, but does Lagarde have a glass eye? Her right eye is looking at Bush, and her left one is looking at me.
“Bush attempts to insert self into ‘American Gothic’ – Grant Wood spins in grave”
@2 that makes Bush the fork.
“American Gothic meets American Idiot”
How about just :
Figure A : Imbeciles
Bush silently thinking “Those frenchies don’t shave their legs and pits do they? heh heh”
She would have been great in Planet of the Apes.
“People of earth. Your time of woe is over. We have come to retrieve this escaped prisoner from our planet. Our apologies.”
“My mom and dad got this job for me, but it’s just not that fun anymore.”
Shit, I hope she didn’t hear about the whole ‘freedom fries’ thing…
“Those are some awesome grim reaper costumes. Gonna ask where they got ’em!”
The French Finance Minister looks distrubingly like Allison Janney from West Wing; maybe that part of why this is so easy to stare at in a surreal fashion.
“Yoda’s wife is standing right behind me, isn’t she?”
Caption:
“It’s standing right behind me, isn’t it?”
“I’d like to welcome you all to Charlie Crist’s post-op press conference.”
“My fellow Americans: thanks to Phil Collins and the queen of the Oompa-loompas, the financial crisis is now over.”
Thanks, Fnarf, for the nightmares.
Don’t blame us! We just do what our New World Order puppetmasters tell us to do.
“I’m not stepping out from behind this podium until somebody finds my pants.”
@2-That made me laugh out loud.
Thank you. You made my morning.
“Those aren’t pillows!”
“Mebbe, if’n I blink my eyes in Morse Code, someone will realize these two are holdin’ guns to mah back!”
21 for the win!
Bush: What’s up Cheney and Condoleeza? They’re lookin’ mighty funny today.
The sexual tension between Paulson and Lagarde is palpable.
This is the most haunting and serious caption I think about when I see these:
“They’re going to be looking at these pictures in the future like they look at the black and white ones now before the depression, or of Nixon, or of really sad times in America. We are a part of that. This is how it happens. I am glad that the camera can’t see that I am soiling myself.”
“Do I hear $7,000,000,001? Going once…”
“We are the 3 amigooooo’s!”
Nyuk nyuk. Hey Mo, look over there!
Is the crisis over or are those money folks still standing behind me?
At the annual World Leaders and their Financial minister/secretary spelling bee, President Bush attempts to buy some time when given the word,”irreparable”.
“Could I have the definition please?”
“Your administration.”
“Could you use the word in a sentence?”
“Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains!”
31 nails it.
“Jesus, when we talked to him about the need for America to start producing more widgets, I thought for sure he knew what we meant by ‘widgets’.”
Leeeroyyyyy Jenkinnnnnsss!
Adrian @ 31 wins, no doubt!
This is your president speaking. I have just finished sucking the life force from Dick Cheney and Condoleezsa Rice.
“‘zat freaky lizard lady still behind me? whoa…”
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
“we are so fucked”
Merd! They’re on to us. Get ready to run.
Please welcome your new socialist overlords: Sad Face and Frenchy.
“Am I the only one who feels out of focus here?”
“Uh, Christy? Please tell me that’s YOUR thumb up my ass…”
“the river was deep, but i swam it…”
“Janet.”
Klaatu Varrada Nikto
Val will be pleased
I mean Vall
Braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiins… Oh shit, did I just say that out loud?