Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Broadway Show Tunes- Page 2
Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Broadway Show Tunes
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#25
Posted: 4/2/09 at 3:47pm
Her liking musicals or not seems irrelevant to me. I took the iPod and Richard Rodgers book to be gifts representing an American art form.
Similarly, I wouldn't ask whether or not Obama was a devotee of photography. Her gift of her photograph was the gesture of one head of state to another, not the intimate gift of a friend.
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#26
Posted: 4/2/09 at 3:50pmYou could actually decipher that mess? The Queen's English, indeed.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#27
Posted: 4/2/09 at 3:53pm
No Wildhorn?
They wanted her to enjoy the present.
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#28
Posted: 4/2/09 at 4:47pm
"Can anyone picture the Queen listening to an IPOD?"
She apparently sent her first e-mail in the 1970s when it was something only available to the military. She also demonstrated herself to be IT literate when visiting YouTube's HQ recently.
"it's been reported that Her Majesty is a HUGE fan of showtunes and musicals"
Well, Prince Edward certainly is.
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#29
Posted: 4/2/09 at 6:06pmIt has also been reported that she enjoys tweeting on Twitter and recently friended Gramham Norton on Facebook.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#31
Posted: 4/2/09 at 7:55pm
From the above linked article:
"Finding herself next to Mrs Obama, the Queen remarked on their height difference."
So, she's a size Queen?
***Note to self: You've learned far too much on BWW***
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#32
Posted: 4/2/09 at 8:18pm
If it's true that she doesn't like musicals, I'm not really surprised by this choice of gift. He seems to have a knack for giving the wrong gifts to foreign leaders.
Apparently he also had some of his speeches on there. Just what I'd want.
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#33
Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:21pm
Well, if she's announced that she actively hates musicals, yes. (In which case she shouldn't go throwing life peearges at musical theater composers.) Otherwise I still think it a fine representation of American culture.
Spork, where did you hear about his speeches being on there? That's news to me.
Updated On: 4/2/09 at 09:21 PM
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#34
Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:32pmIt was a link on the DrudgeReport. It's gone now.
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#35
Posted: 4/2/09 at 9:36pm
Here. It's from the article in the Telegraph:
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We now also know that there were some of Obama's speeches on the iPod, as well as footage of the Queen's visits to the United States. According to the White House, the Queen asked for a video iPod - the one she already had was an audio device.
Barack Obama?s thoughtful gift to the Queen
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#36
Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:15pm
It was the musical that tore Elizabeth's baby from her nurturing breast and exposed him to the cold, harsh workaday world.
"Really Useful Group," she bitterly wailed, "more like Really Usurping Group."
re: Obama's iPod Gift to Elizabeth II Fit for a 'Queen', Loaded with 40 Bro#37
Posted: 4/3/09 at 2:27am
Obama has actually broken a whole lot of laws by giving Liz a copy of the Cd he bought on that iPod.
How are those poor artists and record companies going to get paid their royalties if the Prez is pirating toonz.
I hope the RIAA sues his butt.
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