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[pmcd9]

Honestly

I'm no fan of George Bush as anyone who post on this board knows, but I gotta say the boy showed some sweet moves dodging that shoe.  Catlike reflexes.  Hell, it might have been his finest act as president.

[KeithHernandez]

I throw shoes all the time- my favorite form of grafiti it is.

You ever throw a roller blade on to a power line?  Fun as shit.

[CortJstr]

I like the Three Stooges version: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/bush-shoe-toss.html

[littlefallsmets]

Only time I saw Nine Inch Nails, the concert was called off two-thirds of the way in.

Someone threw a steel-toed boot from the moshpit, knocked the drummer out fuck*ng cold.

There is something about rock concerts in Albany that is disasterous.

Los Angeles and Syracuse, the two other areas where I've seen enough concerts to have a sense of things, are both pretty orderly situations.

But there's something about those Albanians.

[lprkn]

"Heh heh, I know kung fu."

[miles]

Hell, it might have been his finest act as president.

Without a doubt. I almost like the guy now.

[Golfhaus]

Shoes have an interesting place in the Muslim world. We're all wishing he'd flipped him the bird afterwards; as far as they're concerned, that's exactly what he did.

[wombat]

So why do shoes mean that? Surely there must be a story behind this.

[pmcd9]

Sock and Awe

[lprkn]

Well, I was told that to point the soles of your feet at anyone is to effectively say "you are beneath me, I am your master, etc."

Wikipedia is only slightly helpful here, mostly focusing on the recent event.

Edited to fix linkage.

[littlefallsmets]

I thought it was more like "here is the thing that I would use to walk through shit, I am basically shaming you by showing you shit".

[Golfhaus]

You are supposed to take off your shoes when entering a mosque as well, which makes perfect sense to me. I don't pretend to understand a lot about any organized religion, especially Islam, but anything that suggests taking off your shoes is aight by this guy.

[wombat]

Sock and Awe

God, I love the internet.

I guess if shoes are too dirty to take into a mosque, that is at least some kind of generalization. Although I have never heard of a shoe-throwing tradition in Japan, where they even take their shoes off to go into their own houses.

Seems like an awesome commitment to have to walk home without shoes, afterwards.

[AugustWest]

I like the Three Stooges version: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/bush-shoe-toss.html

Yes!  The best part is the other shmo standing next to Bush.  His confused expression fits perfectly.

[KeithHernandez]

LFM and leppy are pretty much exactly right.