Random Email Forwards: Satire

As is traditional, outgoing US president George W Bush left a note for his successor in the top drawer of his desk in the Oval Office. The White House declined to reveal the exact details of the letter to Barak Obama but Metro would like to think it went something like this...

Dear Barry,

First and foremosting, I would like to congratulatise you on getting the job. It will be great to have someone come in and bring a finished completion to all the work I did. I have to warn you, though, Baz, being president isn't all laughs. There are a lot of boring speeches to sit through.
But I think you will make a great commander-in-chife. You've got what I've got - charismaticism. And that goes a long way. I also dig the way you got all those famous people on your side - they didn't take much to me. But I like that Jon Bono Jovi who sang a few days before your augmentation - eh's a good guy.
My daddy once told me: 'Eat your vegetables, Georger Jnr'. And was right. Well, now it's my turn to give some advisementary words. Don't let people misunderestimate you the way they misunderestimated me - I hope you don't misunderstanderate what I'm getting at there, Baz. I know I used a lot of big words in that sentence.
Being the president is a bit like grabbing a bull by its horns - you gotta go up to that bull and grabs his horns. In a metaphosphorical sense, of course. If you grab a real bull by the horns you won't be the president for too long. You should maybe write that one down.
I've left you some pretzels on my desk an, before I forget, I've also left you a crisis in the Middle East and a bad economy - in London, Engerland, they're calling that a 'credit crunch'. Ain't that cute? Sounds like a breakfast cereal to me, Baz. Next time you're in No1, Downing street, tell Gordon Ramsay I said 'hi'.
So I guess that's all I got for ya. I know you'll be a super leader. They made a movie about me after my eight years were up, so if they do the same with you I guess you'll know you've done a good job. Good luck, Baz!

Yours facefully,

Dubya (spelt with a 'W')

Ps: Sorry about the lawn.... Barney's little weapons of mass destruction! (A joke)

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Entropa - With malice towards all

The Czech Republic commissioned an artwork to celebrate 6 months of its presidency of the European Union. While the work was expected to represent artists from all 27 EU member nations, as it turns out that the installation called Entropa was created by an all-Czech team of artists under the direction of David Černý.

Entropa plays on steretypes and pokes fun at one and all.

Austria as an energy powerhouse.

Belgium is a box of chocolates.

Bulgaria is represented as Turkish toilets.

Czech Republic is an electronic (LED) display quoting the President.

Denmark is a Lego-set.

France is a country on strike.

Finland is a hardwood floor.

Germany is crisscrossed by autobahns, in what some say a vaguely Swastika-like pattern.

Greece is a nation riddled with wildfire.

Hungary is a nuclear think-tank with ripe watermelons.

Ireland is a bagpipe.

Italy is just a large football ground.

Latvia is mountaneous country.

Luxembourg is a gold nugget on sale.

Malta is a rock with a dwarf elephant standing on it.

The Netherlands is submerged under water, with only some islamic minarets visible above the floodline.

Poland is shown as a pile of rubble, wherein some Catholic monks are erecting the gay flag, Iwo Jima style.

Portugal is a butcher's table with steak and colonial blood on it.

Romania is a Dracula-themed fun-park.

Spain is a large building site, in an obvious reference to its real-estate market.

Sweden is depicted as an IKEA ‘flat-pack’ cardboard box. But from a hole towards the bottom of the box, one can see a small piece from the Saab JAS-39 Gripen aircraft - a reference to the 2001 bribery scandal wherein Saab tried to sell 24 Gripen jets to Czech Republic with the help of UK-based BAE Systems.

The United Kingdom is represented by its conspicuous absence from the piece.

Click here to download the artists' concept document.

As you can see, I don't have photos/ descriptions of all the nations' representations. Therefore, if you have photos or information, I'd appreciate if you could share it here.