"We had a good discussion"

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Bush constantly uses this turn of phrase when describing his meetings with foreign dignitaries. As if it's supposed to put us all at ease.

What a dick.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

translation: "Nobody told me to shut up."

― Huck If I Know (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Condoleeza did her impersonation of Jacques Chirac"

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"The cookies were crunchy on the outside, but soft in the middle."

― Huck If I Know (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Guh."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

He's just speaking rudimentary diplomatese for "tain't nobody's business but our own." When two leaders meet and they can barely contain their mutual loathing, the diplomatese for that is "a frank and fair exchange of views."

― Aimless, Monday, 2 February 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nobody really likes me anyhow, so fuck 'em! They talk, I nap."

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"We had a good dialogue... I couldn't understand a goddamn word he said, and the eggs benedict was great."

― andy, Monday, 2 February 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"it's funny how some of these furriners speak english better than i do. even jacques chirac."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"we had a good discussion on how there are black people in brazil."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey Stretch! Was that her boobie? Was it? Huh, huh?"

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't the title quote from the first episode of the Sopranos?

haha, I can totally see Bush keeping a tall guy on his staff just so he can call someone "Stretch".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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