1. Basic Cartography: "Wow! Brazil is big!" - U.S. President George W. Bush, upon being shown a map of Brazil, South America's largest country (in both area and population) by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. I hope the rest of you at least had an inkling of Brazil's scope and magnitude.
2. Animal Husbandry: "Maybe we should just move." - Me, upon discovering that the cat had, for the upteenth time, peed on the orange chair. Since I believe in karma, I'm pretty sure I'm being punished for some past misdeed.
3. Rapid Eye Movement: "Do you know what he did the other night?! He woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me that Peres had been ousted by Peretz as head of the Israeli Labour Party!" - Zach, describing to friends at dinner on Friday night just how difficult it can be to get a good night's rest when the possibility of early elections in Isreal looms.
4. Head of State: "Some chick." - An anonymous guy on the bus Friday, telling his friend about the apparent victor in Liberia's recent presidential run-off elections, Harvard-educated grandmother and former World Bank economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. She will be Africa's first elected female president, by the way.
Posted by James at November 12, 2005 07:41 PM