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...How is it a shuffle if he gave it to her with a video of her?

Quote:No, this isn't an April Fool's joke. President Obama met today at Buckingham Palace with the Queen, and our forward thinking commander-in-chief brought along a little tech for gifting purposes. Obama presented Elizabeth II with an iPod containing video from her 2007 visit to the States. In return, the first family received what is apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries to the Palace -- a silver-framed photo of the Queen and her husband. At a glance, it seems like Obama has a thing for gadgets (and related media); he recently handed off a set of DVDs featuring classic American films to Prime Minister Gordon Brown... who was unable to play them due to incorrect region encoding. Regardless, the Queen appears pleased with the music player, telling the President during their 25 minute tea that she "Finally has something to listen to [her] Pantera records on."

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/president-obama-offers-ipod-to-the-queen-of-england/

Quote:...he recently handed off a set of DVDs featuring classic American films to Prime Minister Gordon Brown... who was unable to play them due to incorrect region encoding.

Most LOL thing I've heard in a while.

Mickey Wrote:...How is it a shuffle if he gave it to her with a video of her?

Quote:No, this isn't an April Fool's joke. President Obama met today at Buckingham Palace with the Queen, and our forward thinking commander-in-chief brought along a little tech for gifting purposes. Obama presented Elizabeth II with an iPod containing video from her 2007 visit to the States. In return, the first family received what is apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries to the Palace -- a silver-framed photo of the Queen and her husband. At a glance, it seems like Obama has a thing for gadgets (and related media); he recently handed off a set of DVDs featuring classic American films to Prime Minister Gordon Brown... who was unable to play them due to incorrect region encoding. Regardless, the Queen appears pleased with the music player, telling the President during their 25 minute tea that she "Finally has something to listen to [her] Pantera records on."

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/president-obama-offers-ipod-to-the-queen-of-england/

errr... can you not use ipods as storage devices? ... kinda like how you would use a flash drive

but yeah . whichever case. its till a bit pointless to give her a video inside a shuffle

art tags for the win :D

i made up the part about the shuffle when i found the $20,000 diamond covered image on google LOL

and how can the US afford to buy such gifts?  obama just orders a few hundos to be printed and bam he has the money...

plus...if he could afford t obring 500+ people iwth him on this trip...what the fudge can't he afford to do?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar...sit-uk-g20

fudge he even flew over his armored limo!! 

Quote:The entourage

Apart from the 200 secret service personnel who will follow Obama on his European tour, the president's entourage will also include representatives of the White House Military Office, the White House Transportation Agency, the White House Medical Unit, the Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron, the State Department Presidential Travel Support Service, the US Information Agency, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service and the Customs Service.

In addition, there will be staff from the White House kitchen ready to turn out a quick burger should the president suddenly feel peckish.

Michelle Obama will have eight of her own staff, including a secretary, a press officer and bodyguards. And Obama's personal aide Reggie Love - called by the president "the kid brother I never had" - will be at hand to provide pens, Nicorette gum, throat lozenges, tea or even aspirins.

Quote:The Beast

With its armour-plated body and doors, a raised roof, and reinforced steel and aluminium, The Beast will be Obama's official car. It boasts a titanium and ceramic superstructure and a sealed interior forming a "panic room" capable of shielding him from even a chemical weapons attack. Equipped with a night-vision camera and an armoured petrol tank filled with foam to prevent explosion should it suffer a direct hit, it also has pump-action shotguns, tear-gas cannon, oxygen tanks and bottles of the president's blood. Its tyres allow it to keep driving even if they have been punctured.

Seriously, does he need that many people?  Wouldnt he be more inconspicuous flying with say 3 people?

*update*
Uploaded onto the iPod:

    * Photos from the Queen's 2007 White House State Visit
    * Photos from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit
    * Photos from the Queen's 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit
    * Video from the Queen's 1957 Jamestown Visit
    * Video from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown Visit
    * Video from the Queen's 2007 Richmond Visit
    * Photos from President Obama's Inauguration
    * Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
    * Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address

Britain's Press Association reports that the Royal couple gave the Obamas "a silver-framed, signed photograph of themselves."

-- jpt

UPDATE: And the Obama team confirms that these show tunes were also uploaded on Ye Olde Queen's iPod, fas irst reported by the AP:

   "Oklahoma!"
   "If I Loved You," Jan Clayton, "Carousel"
   "You'll Never Walk Alone," Jan Clayton, "Carousel"
   "There's No Business Like Show Business," Ethel Merman, "Annie Get Your Gun"
   "Once in Love with Amy (Where's Charley?)," Ray Bolger
   "Some Enchanted Evening," "South Pacific"
   "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," Carol Channing, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
   "Getting to Know You," Gertrude Lawrence, "The King and I"
   "Shall Wee Dance?" Gertrude Lawrence, "The King and I"
   "I Could Have Danced All Night," Julie Andrews, "My Fair Lady"
   "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," Rex Harrison, "My Fair Lady"
   "The Party's Over (Bells Are Ringing)," Judy Holliday
   "Maria," "West Side Story"
   "Tonight," "West Side Story"
   "Seventy Six Trombones," "The Music Man"
   "Everything's Coming up Roses," Ethel Merman, "Gypsy"
   "The Sound of Music"
   "Try to Remember," Jerry Orbach, "The Fantasticks"
   "Camelot," Richard Burton
   "If Ever I Would Leave You," Robert Goulet, "Camelot"
   "Hello, Dolly!" Carol Channing
   "If I Were a Rich Man," Zero Mostel, "Fiddler on the Roof"
   "People," Barbra Streisand, "Funny Girl"
   "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)," John Cullum
   "The Impossible Dream," Richard Kiley, "Man of La Mancha"
   "Mame," Charles Braswell
   "Cabaret," Liza Minnelli
   "Aquarius, Ronald Dyson, "Hair'
   "Send in the Clowns," Judy Collins, "A Little Night Music"
   "All That Jazz," Chita Rivera, "Chicago"
   "One," "A Chorus Line"
   "Tomorrow," Andrea McArdle, "Annie"
   "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," Patti LuPone, "Evita"
   "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," Jennifer Holliday, "Dreamgirls"
   "Memory," Elaine Paige, "Cats"
   "The Best of Times," George Hearn, "La Cage Aux Folles"
   "I Dreamed a Dream," Aretha Franklin, "Les MisDerables"
   "The Music of the Night," Michael Crawford, "The Phantom of the Opera"
   "As If Wee Never Said Goodbye," Elaine Paige, "Sunset Blvd."
   "Seasons of Love," "Rent"

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