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  • Which Dark Family Does Vladimir Putin Work For?

    Everyone:

    Heh. Found this light-hearted story on the raw news wires earlier today. Take a gander at it, laugh insanely, and contribute to this thread afterwards as you see fit.

    MOSCOW (AP) — What does the stern-faced commander in chief of a million-strong army have in common with a self-effacing elf from a popular children's film? Nothing — except perhaps a longish nose, piercing eyes and a certain indefinable similarity.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be green and wrinkly like Dobby, the house elf from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,'' but moviegoers have been struck by a certain resemblance.

    The British Broadcasting Corp. even set up a Putin/Dobby poll on its children's Web site. Out of 9,188 people who cast votes as of Friday, nearly 57 percent agreed that Putin does look like Dobby.

    Russian media reported last week that a Moscow law firm was preparing to sue the makers of the Potter movie for intentionally modeling the character on Putin. However, no law firm has come forward to take credit for the idea.
    Gatekeeper
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    "Russian media reported last week that a Moscow law firm was preparing to sue the makers of the Potter movie for intentionally modeling the character on Putin."

    Only in America...

    ...oh...wait...

    The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

    The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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    • #3
      **tsk, tsk** I know the feeling. Yet another American myth shattered by reality — frivolous lawsuits are, indeed, filed elsewhere on planet Earth. It's a shame, really. Us Americans just aren't that unique anymore (if we ever were).

      I personally think Putin is still beholden to the successor agency of the KGB. Where's a nice, clean sock when you need one?

      Gatekeeper
      "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire

      "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Gatekeeper
        Where's a nice, clean sock when you need one?

        Gatekeeper
        Do I even WANT to know what that means...?
        The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

        The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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        • #5
          I was refering to an event from the movie, not whatever other connotations a "clean sock" has outside that setting. I'm not worldly enough to know intimately about that, although I have a sneaking suspicion it involves birth control items.

          Gatekeeper
          "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire

          "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gatekeeper
            I was refering to an event from the movie, not whatever other connotations a "clean sock" has outside that setting. I'm not worldly enough to know intimately about that, although I have a sneaking suspicion it involves birth control items.

            Gatekeeper
            I'd never heard the expression before (quote from movie in this case), hence my non-knowledge. What movie?



            On-topic, could you provide the link?
            The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

            The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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            • #7
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              In the movie, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," Dobby is an enslaved house elf to the Draco family, which practices (apparently) the dark arts of wizardry. He is freed at the end of the movie when Harry puts a sock in a Draco book, and gives the tome to the Draco patriarch, who promptly shoves it into the hands of his slave house elf (Dobby) to carry.

              The sock frees Dobby from enslavement because the curse is broken when the house elf's master gives him a piece of clothing. In this case, the sock in the tome. The Draco patriarch didn't do this intentionally, and is torqued off at Harry.

              Anyway, that ties into my original post: Since Putin hasn't gotten new clothing from his master yet, which dark family is he still enslaved to? The KGB's successors, of course ...

              Gatekeeper
              "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire

              "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius

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              • #8
                And here's the link to the full story: http://my.aol.com/news/news_story.ps...13115053394288
                "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire

                "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius

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                • #9
                  What movie?


                  Seeing as Putin is compared to a character from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, I wonder which movie he could be referring to .
                  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                  - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                  • #10
                    Putin's probably mad that he can't simply send the secret police anymore to arrest people making that connection
                    To us, it is the BEAST.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Which Dark Family Does Vladimir Putin Work For?

                      Originally posted by Gatekeeper
                      Everyone:

                      Heh. Found this light-hearted story on the raw news wires earlier today. Take a gander at it, laugh insanely, and contribute to this thread afterwards as you see fit.



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                      Long live teh paranoia smiley!

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                      • #12
                        you're bored Tassadar, yet took the time to click on the sleeping smiley
                        To us, it is the BEAST.

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