“Can I be a head of state? Please? And why not, when you get cool gifts like the one Gov. Schwarzenegger gave to PM tony Blair: a 60 gb Ipod, black, natch, with a leather case — preloaded with songs about California,” Carla Marinucci blogs for The San Francisco Gate.
“The playlists include California pop tunes, San Francisco/Bay Area pop tunes, SF and California rock bands and ‘classical/Misc.’ Who put this all together? The state protocol office, headed by Charlotte Shultz. The IPod was inscribed: Presented to the Right Honorable Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California,” Marinucci reports.
Full article here.
OoooOOOOooo
I think the engraved text exceeds the limit possible at the Apple store…
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“…preloaded with songs about California.”
Hey! RIAA, did you see this? Arnold is giving away music.
MW: Point Just to make a point.
they’ll keep on whispering your mantras.
I wonder if it includes California Uber Alles. That would be hilarious.
For those who don’t remember California Uber Alles it’s a protest song by the dead kennedeys about Jerry Brown and was later covered by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy about Pete Wilson. Also Jello Biafra rewrote it with references to Schwarzenegger but I haven’t heard that version yet. I hope Tony Blair got all 3 versions.
“A 60 gb Ipod, black, natch, with a leather case…”
had to look up “natch”… cool word
Another reason to vote for Arnold.
WOOHOOOO!
Go Governor!
Right On! California is great, too bad most of the people are jugheads. Anywho, wonder if they included “Take California” by The Propellerheads. It was the original song for the first iPod commercial.
gorsh-“had to look up “natch”… cool word”
I like “snatch” better
Can someone fix the upper case “i” in this story… it’s iPod not IPod.
The joke’s on Blair when he hooks it up to his computer and they disappear, hahahaha…
joke’s on Arnie
^^^ scarbro, stop being so anal. I can smell your poo from here.
So all I have to do to get a free iPod is get elected to the House of Commons, get elected as Prime Minister then visit California. It’s a done deal!
His wife will add it to her freeby collection. Blair is on record for being the dimboid where such tech is concerned.
Meanwhile Microsoft is Blair’s choice back in poor old Blighty…
Can’t wait to find this one posted on eBay!
Blair is not actually head of state – he just acts like one!
O.K. now that absolutely everyone has an iPod, it’s time for MacMania and his affiliates to sell ours.
When Macs get to this level of ubiquity, we will switch to, ah, Solaris.
So there!
Reminds me of a Tom Petty song:
California’s been good to me
Hope it don’t fall into the sea
yeah, but his wife at least already had a nano. I used to work at the SoHo store and helped her by a 2gb [she wouldn’t spring for a 4gb!!] black nano.
OUTGOING SLEAZE-RIDDEN PSEUDO-LEFT-WING BUSH POODLE ON LAST POLITICAL LEGS GIVEN INCOMPREHENSIBLE FASHIONABLE GADGET BY INCOMING SLEAZE-RIDDEN ULTRA-RIGHT-WING LEADER OF FORMER GLORIOUS REPUBLIC ON LAST POLITICAL LEGS
under parliamentary rules is he gonna keep it and pay the full whack for the ipod, or like john prescott is he gonna forget that he ever recieved it.
Slimeballs
What an interesting piece. NOT!
Arnold originally tried to give Tony one of his Hummers, but the PM couldn’t afford the fuel cost.
arnie is the gratest