19 March 2010

Preparations for the POTUS road show

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So who has seen what?
Letter boxes welded shut?
Men in black suits walkiong around with wires out of their ears?
Secret Service snipers on buidlings

[Ed – or spending up their travelling allowance now that the show has been cancelled]

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That google search shows it is Presidents, plural. So who are the other ones?

I still think it sounds like a disease, or something that parents of nappy wearing babies would have to deal with.

And now that it has been delayed, does that make it
POTUS interuptus ?

merlin bodega9:27 pm 20 Mar 10

Time was we just called HIM (it’s never a her) “the president”. At least we have come that far. What debacles from the AFP await us? I can’t wait.

grunge_hippy5:09 pm 20 Mar 10

actually, the best place to watch AF1 landing would be the baby change room at brand depot. Top spot for plane watching… and the best baby change room in canberra. pity its at brand depot. worst. shopping. centre. ever.

Of course they are watching.

But had to larf when I read this week that when Bush was in town last time they had snipers on a hill 20km out from the airport hushing the land owners to secrecy. Would that have been near Mt Rob Roy?

p1 said :

Well, it gives us all more time to find a nice grassy knoll to watch from.

Parliament Hill is nothing but one whopping big grassy knoll!

luther_bendross6:33 pm 19 Mar 10

Spectra said :

WTF is POTUS ?

FFS.

Lolz. Best thing since http://tinyurl.com/22c6t

Spectra said :

WTF is POTUS ?

FFS.

Fair go, not everyone knows how to use Google yet.

POTUS = People On This forum Unusually Stupid

grunge_hippy3:47 pm 19 Mar 10

i’ve got my perfect spot… damn him and his delays!

the airplane nerd in me is cranky that I have to wait!

astrojax said :

….or build that book repository….

Actually, the National Library would probably be a good place to get a shot… er… view of the motorcade.

Thoroughly Smashed2:56 pm 19 Mar 10

rbw said :

What or who is POTUS? 😛 😛

Sounds embarrassing. “Yeah, I’ve got POTUS” and so on and so forth.

Careful what you say I think they may be watching.

What or who is POTUS? 😛 😛

p1 said :

Well, it gives us all more time to find a nice grassy knoll to watch from.

or build that book repository – who needs a new hospital anyway?

Re FA-18s, no wonder the plane we saw waaaaaay up high yesterday evening was still so loud!!

Well, it gives us all more time to find a nice grassy knoll to watch from.

troll-sniffer9:52 am 19 Mar 10

Lateral thinking must be an art, no?

Presidente Ofa The United States

This thread has just become redundant though, bad luck on the timing.

There havve been some FA-18s doing orbits in Canberra Airspace lately, yesterday there was one lurking around at 6.30pm for a while. Beats me why a modern military aircraft has to practise or become familiar with the notion of doing meaningless circles high above Canberra in preparation for the POTUS.

WTF is POTUS ?

FFS.

postponed, is what it is now. p-resident o-f t-he u-nited s-tates… he’ll be here in june, mebbe…

President Of The United States …. cancelled 🙁

President of the United States. And, accoding to the ABC (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/19/2850101.htm) the trip’s been delayed til June so not much to worry about for now I guess.

eyeLikeCarrots said :

WTF is POTUS ?

President of the United States.

eyeLikeCarrots8:02 am 19 Mar 10

WTF is POTUS ?

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