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Russia’s answer on the U.S. Elections: Obama Matryoshkas

By fpp ⋅ 9-November-2008 at 5:05 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

In Moscow, matryoshka - little wooden dolls - of Barack Obama have become one of the best selling souvenirs among tourists and Russians.

While before the election both Obama and McCain dolls were offered by shopkeepers, the interest in McCain dolls that even before November 4th had sold in much smaller numbers, has now more or less completely diminished. Or as one of the sellers put it “my stock in McCain dolls is now worth about as much as shares in Lehman Brothers”

Obama dolls are a new addition to …

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Humor: Al Murray vs. Americans

By fpp ⋅ 7-November-2008 at 15:23 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

In an effort to provide the new U.S. administration with a first hand experience on how your European Allies really tick, here’s a 6 minute cut of British comedian Al Murray talking about Americans.

Al Murray at his finest.

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Cartoons: United Features opens archive

By fpp ⋅ 6-November-2008 at 23:12 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

United Features, the home of more than 90 great comics like the Peanuts, Speed Bump or Mike Luckovich (our favorite) has opened its archives of daily cartoons for free on its web site comics.com.

Besides providing the complete archives of many cartoons that go back years (with the Peanuts to October 1950 - more than 20,000 strips), you can also create yourself a custom RSS feed from the different artists that will include…

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Reminder to go voting today

By fpp ⋅ 4-November-2008 at 17:14 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Just a last reminder to go out voting today how bad the weather might be or not. And try to use paper ballots wherever this is possible so that your vote might actually be counted for the candidate you voted for.

Below two videos from “The Onion” reminding you in a humorous way of a quote from Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin: “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything”

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Humor: Counting Sheep

By fpp ⋅ 3-November-2008 at 21:16 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Not tired when its time to sleep or having spent too much time in the office with your head on the desk. This little Flash application might help.

Unfortunately little Bah-Bah can’t count further than 40 so we are missing the pleasure listening to a sheep saying one thousand three hundred thirty three.

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Humor: Pay Rises

By fpp ⋅ 1-November-2008 at 15:44 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

In quite a few countries around the globe the next rounds of pay negotiations will soon start or have just started. And this time those negotiations most likely in a few countries might turn out to end in fights for workers getting at least the inflationary price increases covered.

Interestingly enough while those managers that have caused the current world wide economic crisis have recently given themselves pay rises of 20% or more (plus of course millions in bonus and dividend payments) they are once more demonstrating complete resistance to let those who create the results participate - even with a minimal share. And based on recent publications real inflation e.g. in the UK is actually closer to 18% and not around the 3-4% published by the government.

Now here’s an image to help sustain these hardships and to make you feel better (or at least smile).

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