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'Straw forced Rice to sleep on floor' | ||
2006-04-05 | ||
LONDON: Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was rapped for ungentlemanly conduct Tuesday after reportedly commandeering US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's private quarters on her official jet. Rice was reported in a number of British newspapers to have graciously offered her British counterpart the use of her bed and cabin on the Boeing 757 plane and Straw ungallantly accepted, leaving her to sleep on the floor. What one newspaper called "Bedgate" is said to have happened as the political bedfellows flew to Kuwait at the weekend before transferring to a military flight bound for Baghdad.
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Posted by:Fred |
#17 It's all part of Condi's new morning routine: 1) Sleep on floor 2) Jog 20 miles 3) Eat a bowl of rusty nails 4) Arm wrestle a grizzly bear 5) Consider what to do about Iran |
Posted by: DMFD 2006-04-05 20:25 |
#16 Thrashing. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-04-05 17:44 |
#15 How do you separate the rice from the straw ? |
Posted by: wxjames 2006-04-05 17:30 |
#14 Good God! I'm surprised the press did not leave out her sleeping on the floor and just report him sleeping in her bed, eluding they were together. Condi did the right thing here. Good on her! |
Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-04-05 15:46 |
#13 Also, she is the host and it's the gracious thing to do to insist the guest get the comfortable bed. |
Posted by: lotp 2006-04-05 12:33 |
#12 Seeing as he is from the UK and she is from North America there is a good chance their sleep patterns were not aligned and he might have been very sleepy while she was well rested. Somehow I think this is much ado about nothing. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-04-05 12:29 |
#11 Jack Straw commandeers Condoleezza RiceÂ’s private quarters... ohh.. the wonderous tails of Ribaldry .. |
Posted by: RD 2006-04-05 10:57 |
#10 And there was straw all over the floor. (Apologies in advance.) |
Posted by: Perfesser 2006-04-05 09:55 |
#9 From the limited information here it appears that she was attempting to take responsibility for her staff's screwup. |
Posted by: Phil 2006-04-05 09:17 |
#8 Why didn't somebody's staff think about this? That's what staff is *for*. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-05 08:58 |
#7 somehow i get the feeling this is gonna be a media story that will be spun up beyond all proportians, just like most tottally insignificant events that happen. |
Posted by: ShepUK 2006-04-05 08:09 |
#6 hey. that's equality for ya! I'm actually not all that bent out of shape about this. |
Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-04-05 07:08 |
#5 That really is the last straw. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2006-04-05 05:14 |
#4 why wouldn't she just have slept in her chair? |
Posted by: 2b 2006-04-05 03:09 |
#3 A real man would have offered to share. |
Posted by: ed 2006-04-05 01:27 |
#2 "The Lion eats straw" |
Posted by: newc 2006-04-05 01:23 |
#1 Condi knows who the wuss is |
Posted by: Captain America 2006-04-05 00:49 |