"hey, wait a minute, i recognize you, aren't you barack obama."
the danish prime minister helle thorning-schmidt must have been deemed pretty expendable to get a seat next to obama at the mandela memorial service. i'm sure no one could have predicted her schoolgirl behavior, flirting and laughing with obama throughout the service
it must have gotten so bad that michelle decided she had to separate them. helle was likely furiously texting her gay husband (who lives in switzerland), "you shoulda been here, stephen, obama is hot!"
i guess this will be the photo that justifies the OED's choice of "selfie" as the word of the year. it's really true, everyone is doing selfies.
these photos are circulating the interwebs, but i found them
here (with a little help from my sister).
updated to include this, where obama tries to get michelle's forgiveness for the flirt with helle the star-struck groupie:
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i came across a linguistic turn i'd never seen before:
“The mood where I’m at’s ecstatic,”
at with an apostrophe s
it was in
this article in the
reno gazette journal.
i can't quite say that i think it's wrong per se, but somehow it is.
or at the very least very colloquial.
what do you make of it?
