michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#1michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:15am
In before papalovesmambo.
Michelle Obama touches queen before queen touches her - world doesn't give shit
#2re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:18amWell, seeing as how the Queen has her hand on Michelle's ass, I guess she didn't mind it too much.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:19amMusta been those goddamn toned, bare arms!
#3re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:23amAccording to everything I've read regarding this, since the Queen put her arm around Michelle first, it was perfectly appropriate for Michelle to reciprocate.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#4re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:27amI'm sure Goth knows!
#5re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:35am
At least neither Obama winked at her.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-453199/Blundering-Bush-makes-ANOTHER-gaffe-winks-Queen.html
#6re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 11:35amAll these queenly rules and regulations! They should just high five her and be done with it.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#7re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 11:40amThe big deal the press has made over this non-issue. Unbelievable. The Queen had to put out a statement saying that it was okay. Christ!
#8re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 11:53amThe queen has clearly heard about Goth and wants to head him off at the pass.
#9re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:10pm
"At least neither Obama winked at her."
Or massaged her shoulders for that matter.
#10re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:18pm
Or grabbed her ass!
Imagine the consequences!
#11re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:28pm
I'll always remember Joan Rivers's line about meeting the queen, and not knowing how to act:
"I'd only ever seen her on a postage stamp. So I went over and licked the back of her head."
#12re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:28pmReg, when you mentioned winking, I thought you meant the other kind...Britney style.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#13re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:44pm*runs screaming from the room at the very thought of that*
#14re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:51pm
"the Queen touched her hand to Michelle Obama's back, and the gesture was then returned. Royal etiquette dictates that the Queen not be touched unless she reaches out first."
Madbrian already touched on this, but it seems as if Michelle was within etiquette guidelines.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:52pmHey, at least no one was fingered.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#16re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 1:02pm
Oh.
Dear.
Lord.
BWAAAHHHAAA!
#17re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:09pmi've never known a queen who didn't like to be touched.
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#18re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:35pm
This is such a non-story.
The queen has been man-handled in public by an Australian prime-minister many years ago.
I suspect his intentions were rather more cynical and self-serving than those of Mrs Obama, who was merely reciprocating a gesture already made.
Could this be a case of the American media playing to national prejudices?
#19re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen
Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:40pmi think it's more the british press. they were the ones who went ape over obama's treatment of gordo and the gifts and the link listed here goes to the daily mail. so before you go blaming the american media, maybe you ought to see where the story comes from, f***-o.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#20Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol
Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:47pm
"Mrs. Obama clearly made an impression with the 82-year-old monarch ? so much that the smiling queen strayed slightly from protocol and briefly wrapped her arm around the first lady in a rare public show of affection."
Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol
#21Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol
Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:49pm
The link goes to The Huffington Post.
"i think it's more the british press. they were the ones who went ape over obama's treatment of gordo and the gifts."
Separate story.
Separate thread.
Nothing to do with protocol.
And as such completely irrelevant to my comment.
Updated On: 4/2/09 at 02:49 PM
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#23Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol
Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:55pmIt goes right to the story which isn't on the Huffington post.
#24Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol
Posted: 4/2/09 at 3:16pm
"It goes right to the story which isn't on the Huffington post."
The article in The Huffington Post offers quotes from the Daily Mail and offers a link to the Daily Mail, just as it also does for an article in Time magazine.
A wider search of the media on both sides of the Atlantic will give a more balanced view of the differences of international interpretation afforded to this story.
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