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By Will 2 years ago, at the start of March Leave a comment on this post

Take one American president, sprinkle with cricket, sit back and relax.

If, like me, you find anything George Bush says, or does, utterly hilarious - not to mention inexplicable, without cause or reason etc etc - then please look at him playing cricket. It’s very funny. Blogged at The Googly, and the BBC have a gallery of photos which, as is Bush’s want, make him look a complete retard. Splendid!

I mean will you look at him?

George Bush playing cricket

Tags: dubya, funny, george-bush, hilarious, pakistan, president, the-googly |

Comments to “George Bush plus cricket equals hilarity” morgan wrote:
March 4th, 2006 at 10.24 pm

I love the look on the kid’s face at Dubya’s right…it’s one I see every time I ask my son to help me with something on the computer…the one that says “you have to be kidding me, you wanted to do what with it?”

Alan R wrote:
March 4th, 2006 at 11.21 pm

As a rare American-born cricket fan, I had to say something about this.

The good news is that another American actually tried playing the game. The bad news is that he handles a bat and ball about as well as he handles budgets and post-war planning.

Will wrote:
March 4th, 2006 at 11.24 pm

Was waiting to hear from you, Alan! Quite agree. And good job on those limericks by the way…

Ed Bremson wrote:
March 5th, 2006 at 12.04 am

Sometimes Bush closely resembles those who parody him. (I remember the time he couldn’t open the door and looked like a doofus) Uncanny.

Alan R wrote:
March 5th, 2006 at 9.03 am

I should also say better Bush than Cheney. If you get hit by a stray beamer from Cheney you’re expected to apologize to him.

And thanks, Will, for the encouragement about the limericks. If I win a t-shirt I hope the incompetent post office here in France can get it to me.

Will Davies wrote:
March 5th, 2006 at 10.05 am

The picture of Dubya meeting Inzamam is worthy of a caption competition in its own right…

First man: “I hear you’re the laziest, slowest-moving man to lead your country”

Second man: “nah, Reagan was pretty bad”

Mark wrote:
March 5th, 2006 at 3.06 pm

It does strike me that the Pakistani authorities missed a trick here. Rather than gently lobbing a tennis ball at Bush, they should have given him the full experience of having the red leather aimed at his head at 100 mph. Yes, I know Shoaib Akhtar is injured at the moment, but there are other suitably terrifying quicks who could have done the job nearly as well. It might also have helped civil peace in Pakistan, as the anti-Bush protesters would have been too busy laughing to cause any real trouble and so with a bit of luck no-one would have been hurt on the demos.

Stu wrote:
March 5th, 2006 at 10.41 pm

He still has more of a clue (and far less embarrasing than John Howard!

JR wrote:
March 6th, 2006 at 2.52 pm

They showed him playing cricket on the news here stateside and I called every person I knew, because many of them claimed that cricket would never be on TV in America.

After the initial excitement wore down, I started screaming “He’s chucking it!” when they showed footage of him “bowling.” It was encouraging, though, to watch him bat and know that, at worst, I am only the second-worst batsman in America.

JD wrote:
October 24th, 2006 at 1.51 pm

Cricket is - presumably - an “unknown unknown”, something he doesn’t know he doesn’t know anything about.

brad wrote:
March 3rd, 2008 at 1.41 am

lol
http://xs225.xs.to/xs225/08101/meet-a-black2-24595.jpg
http://xs225.xs.to/xs225/08101/meet-a-black321.jpg
http://911review.org/humor/Bush_politic-satire2.html

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