How many handshakes away are you from Happy Putin?

[Provost Harrison]

There may be a shorter route than that, depending on whether Lord Butler has ever met Putin in person.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Ecthy
PH, what makes you think I shook hands with Gerd S., in fact I haven't?!

I am sure you said you'd shaken hands with him when you met him...well it looks like the (potential) Lord Butler connection is better than yours anyway

[Provost Harrison]

Even if he hasn't, it would still go Me->Lord Butler->[insert appropriate prime minister/foreign secretary]->Vladimir Putin.

I can pretty much get to most Prime Ministers via one intermediary. Hah!

[Ecthy]

Because Lord butler is from Hull and bla bla bla.

If I ever met Schröder and shook his hand I must have forgotten it for some odd reason

[LordShiva]

LordShiva > Lord Butler

[Provost Harrison]

Well f**k you then And I may even have other such routes of contact

And Lord Butler was the Master of University College for some of the time when I was there, but he was previously Cabinet Secretary (head of the civil service in effect)...so nothing to do with Hull. I've never met John Prescott, although I have been overtaken by him on the A164

[Ecthy]

Though I wonder how so many of these American posters have met GW and shaken hands, suppose it's for the military though. He probably shakes hand of every man who goes to Iraq or something

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by LordShiva
LordShiva > Lord Butler

You've met Lord Butler? You know that means:

LordShiva > Lord Butler > Provost Harrison

?

[Ecthy]

He's using the '>' to indicate a notion of superiority, not a hand shaking contact.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
LordShiva > Lord Butler > Provost Harrison

This is probably true.

If we're talking handshakes, though, it actually goes:

LordShiva -> Provost Harrison