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    50 things you may not know about Barack Obama

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-not-know.html

    Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know
    Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama

    By Jon Swaine
    Last Updated: 3:40PM GMT 11 Nov 2008



    • He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
    • He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
    • His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
    • His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini
    • He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
    • He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
    • He has read every Harry Potter book
    • He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
    • He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
    • His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
    • He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
    • He can speak Spanish
    • While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
    • His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
    • He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
    • He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
    • He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
    • He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
    • His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    • He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancι, but left when a stripper arrived
    • His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
    • He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
    • His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    • He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
    • He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
    • His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
    • He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
    • He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
    • He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
    • He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
    • As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
    • His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
    • He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
    • He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
    • His house in Chicago has four fire places
    • Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
    • He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
    • He uses an Apple Mac laptop
    • He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
    • He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
    • He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
    • He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
    • His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
    • He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
    • He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother
    • He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
    • His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
    • His speciality as a cook is chilli
    • He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
    • He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
    • His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government
    "What, Wheeljak? You fell in that open manhole?
    How is that possible?
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    $21 a fade, damn.
    I love the summer months!

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    I worked in Baskin as a teen, too!!! But, I still love ice cream.
    He left when the stripper came! YAY!
    Awesome musical taste.

    He is such an impressive guy.
    So patience... is nothing...

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    He left when the stripper came? BOO! What red-blooded male would leave when a stripper ARRIVED?!?!?

    And props for diggin' the fugees!
    Never burn your bridges while you're standing on them...

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.Dulteror View Post
    He left when the stripper came? BOO! What red-blooded male would leave when a stripper ARRIVED?!?!?
    I guess that if he had stayed, he would have felt like an a.dulteror.
    "What, Wheeljak? You fell in that open manhole?
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    I posted 'CAUTION: OPEN MANHOLE' on my Facebook page!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.Dulteror View Post
    He left when the stripper came? BOO! What red-blooded male would leave when a stripper ARRIVED?!?!?

    And props for diggin' the fugees!
    I would have left, and I think it's cool that he has Christian values enough to do the same. In fact, I have left too. My boss and friends from work went to the strip joints in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New Orleans. I went to my hotel room. It's just the way I am.

    there we go, just right. keep walking...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harmeister View Post
    I would have left, and I think it's cool that he has Christian values enough to do the same. In fact, I have left too. My boss and friends from work went to the strip joints in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New Orleans. I went to my hotel room. It's just the way I am.
    I don't believe you, because in a thread from a couple of months ago, you said that if a pair of strange boobs got shoved in your face, you'd suck 'em.
    "What, Wheeljak? You fell in that open manhole?
    How is that possible?
    I posted 'CAUTION: OPEN MANHOLE' on my Facebook page!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wheeljak View Post
    I don't believe you, because in a thread from a couple of months ago, you said that if a pair of strange boobs got shoved in your face, you'd suck 'em.
    trudat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wheeljak View Post
    I guess that if he had stayed, he would have felt like an a.dulteror.
    trudat too. But I reckon we've all got a little bit of A.Dulteror in us... and any ladies who don't... want some?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wheeljak View Post
    I don't believe you, because in a thread from a couple of months ago, you said that if a pair of strange boobs got shoved in your face, you'd suck 'em.
    Believe what you will, but that is a true statement. If you recall in that statement you'll see that I would be tempted, but would hope to resist the urge:

    Quote Originally Posted by Harmeister
    Unless it was my wife, I can hope that I would restrain myself and not give it a suck.

    there we go, just right. keep walking...

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    I admire men that aren't into strip clubs. It's so refreshing and shows a real strength of character, and integrity.
    So patience... is nothing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ElizabethX View Post
    I admire men that aren't into strip clubs. It's so refreshing and shows a real strength of character, and integrity.
    blah blah blah. TITS!
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    And oh yeah... ASS!

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    That's a nice ass...where'd you find it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonkman View Post
    That's a nice ass...where'd you find it?
    It's his sister's. You know how they roll down in the O.Z.
    “Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can’t see for ourselves.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by ElizabethX View Post
    I admire men that aren't into strip clubs. It's so refreshing and shows a real strength of character, and integrity.
    First, my applause to both Harm and Obama becuase I totally agree with Liz on this one

    Second, every guy I've been with who has frequented strip clubs (on a regular basis) has had serious mom/ women issues. If going to the strip club with the guys is an actual past-time, that's like a neon sign flashing "undatable."
    “Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can’t see for ourselves.”

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    Yeah, it is a nice ass.
    Anyway, I have no problem with sex or nudity... what I don't care for is that we know how most strippers are not happy people, and even though they stand to make really good money off of what they do... understanding how they got there and still patronizing them seems really exploitative to me. Maybe most men going to clubs have mommy issues, but most strippers definitely have daddy issues.

    It really takes the fun away from sex and nudity, doesn't it?
    So patience... is nothing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ElizabethX View Post
    ...what I don't care for is that we know how most strippers are not happy people, and even though they stand to make really good money off of what they do... understanding how they got there and still patronizing them seems really exploitative to me. Maybe most men going to clubs have mommy issues, but most strippers definitely have daddy issues...
    So, instead of bagging on the men who patronize these types of establishments, why don't we talk about the women who work there and actively participate in their own "self-exploitation"?

    (I assume we are talking about these establishments within the U.S., as we know that women and girls are exploited overseas for this type of thing and more.)

    Are they really being exploited?
    Nobody told them they had to work there, did they?
    Are you positive you understand exactly how a majority of women end up working there?
    What leads you to these conclusions?
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    When a men enters a strip club (with money), he becomes a king amongst kings. (Isn't that what most men secretly want more than anything?)
    Strippers don't fit one stereotype. Some are on their way up in life, some are on their way down, and some fool themselves into believing that they have found a happy middle ground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonkman View Post
    That's a nice ass...where'd you find it?
    That ass belongs to my missus! She's a good sport
    Never burn your bridges while you're standing on them...

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