Metaphor Alert!

December 22, 2009

(Guest post by Greg Forster)

Priceless video of Gordon Brown, with great ceremonial pomposity, leading Al Gore into a closet.

Update: Watch their faces as they come out. Brown, to his great credit, is laughing his hiney off. Gore still has his game face on. Like the fate of the treaty depends on his not looking bad as he walks down the hallway. Then, after what feels like an eternity, he seems to realize that he’ll look like an idiot if he doesn’t smile. So he scruches his face up into a sort of smile-like contortion.

HT Daily Telegraph, via Mark Steyn

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Al Gore, Frozen in Time

January 20, 2009

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(Guest post by Greg Forster)

Since we’re on an economics kick today: Craig Compeau of Fairbanks, Alaska has sponsored the creation and display of an 8 1/2 foot tall, five-ton ice sculpture of Al Gore. He has organized a local contest to guess how much colder the winter will be in 2008-09 compared to the winter of 1947-48, the year of Al Gore’s birth, with proceeds going to a local charity. This winter Fairbanks has already hit 47 degrees below zero (as in 79 degrees below the freezing point) so the guesses are going to have to be almost as low as Gore’s credibility.

The Associated Press dryly reports that the ice sculpture will be on display “through March unless it melts before then.”

(edited for typos)

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