LOLObamaEars thought it was the Oscars, and was waiting for someone to escort him off stage.
Soon enough we'll see your exit: 2012 Palin/Trump!
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The Queen doesn't give a fuck clearly, how many times must she have heard the world's worst national anthem now, poor old cow

Answer: Not really at all!

Was alright. Bush would've massaged her shoulders and feeled her up.

any bets on what the queen was drinking?

my guess would be coffee brandy

http://allenscoffeebrandy.com/

Would someone please explain to me what the flub was?

^It seems like he was supposed to wait for the music before speaking.

I blame the band leader.

So they started playing the anthem in the middle of his toast and he was supposed to shut up? Either Obama started the toast when he wasn't supposed to or someone took a miscue to start playing the anthem.

WSJ seems to pin the flub on the band leader.

Fucking musicians. Always causing problems.

I hope SlipperyPete is just kidding in a thinly veiled attempt as sarcasm, because if you really want Trump and Palin in the White House, then boy, I dunno what to tell you

>> ^baashar:

I hope SlipperyPete is just kidding in a thinly veiled attempt as sarcasm, because if you really want Trump and Palin in the White House, then boy, I dunno what to tell you


Doing an impression of quantummushroom, a local moron operating mostly on the sift.

Also, this was so un-awkward. The only awkward thing was some idiot playing music over obama. It was a nice toast, let the man finish.

>> ^SlipperyPete:

LOLObamaEars thought it was the Oscars, and was waiting for someone to escort him off stage.
Soon enough we'll see your exit: 2012 Palin/Trump!
[/quantummushroom]


Slippery, you are supposed to open with the [quantummushroom] tag, right now you are just ending it, but technically the text before it isn't in a quantummushroom voice.

>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^SlipperyPete:
LOLObamaEars thought it was the Oscars, and was waiting for someone to escort him off stage.
Soon enough we'll see your exit: 2012 Palin/Trump!
[/quantummushroom]

Slippery, you are supposed to open with the [quantummushroom] tag, right now you are just ending it, but technically the text before it isn't in a quantummushroom voice.


I was talking like him for weeks. What - you didn't notice?

It was indeed a cringe-worthy video. It's one of those nightmare moments in public speaking. The band kicked in early, and what are you going to do? It would have been equally awkward to just stop the toast completely. It was a really awkward moment, but Obama did about all he could with it.

short article on toast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13558270

The band will always kick in when the Queen's name is mentioned. He should have either waited until they had finished or toasted her at the end of the speech. Stupid rule anyway

>> ^garmachi:

Would someone please explain to me what the flub was?

While a lot of the formality and pomp required when around the queen is a little silly and outdated (and the queen seems to be fine with some minor lapses) a toast to the queen isn't just a normal toast, it is a formalized event. A private in any commonwealth military would have been able to pull it off, someone should have briefed the president.

I don't fault Obama - she's not his queen - but I fault his advisors.

@critical_d The queen was likely drinking water. By tradition, the only things acceptable to drink while toasting the queen are water and port wine.

Maybe its time to move on from these things? Didn't sound like a flub to me. It actually sounded pretty good to have the song played while Obama was speaking. Made it sound very Hollywood!

The mishap was that he was taking his glass before the queen did. had nothing to do with the music. queen's first to take the glass.

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