"I've been telling people for years...Bush is human and not some alien..."

[sabra]

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1942332005

Condie, can I go to the bathroom?

TENSIONS were running high as the world's most powerful men and women discussed international security and the future of the United Nations.

...

But the most pressing matter on the President's mind was nothing to do with international security - he was desperate for the toilet.

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President Bush, who once admitted "this foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating", has joined the debate to explore ways to revitalise the UN following a damaging few years, highlighted by the disagreement between nations over the Iraq war.

Politicians in Scotland today sympathised with the President's predicament, and said they too had been left short during lengthy - and often boring - meetings.

Tory MSP Brian Monteith said: "I've been telling people for years that George Bush is human and not some alien or automaton, but no-one would listen. I know how he feels, there are times in these big meetings when all eyes are on you and yet below your cheery smile you are bursting.

[wurzel]

1. Interesting note Bush wrote.

I "think" I need a bathroom break. Doesn't he know? What is a "bathroom break"? There are cofee breaks and lunch breaks. But a bathroom break?

[Jeanette in FL]

2. Oh Gawd

I have been avoiding the foreign papers this morning for this reason. Thanks for posting. LOL

[sabra]

6. Here's what the UK's Sunday Times had to say about it:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1781796,00.html

'Excuse me Condi , can I go to the bathroom?'

President Bush had a more pressing worry than terrorism or reforming the United Nations during a Security Counil meeting in New York yesterday - the leader of the world's only superpower wanted to go the loo.

At one point during the Council's debate on international security and UN reform, Mr Bush picked up a pencil and wrote a short note to Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State.

"I think I may need a bathroom break? Is this possible?" the note read.

The photograph, taken by a Reuters photographer, was widely reposted and discussed on the internet - including a piece on the influential Drudge Report under the title "Bush Needs to Go Potty".

[Jeanette in FL]

8. Gee, thanks sabra, LOL nt

[klook]

3. For those really important meetings, choose Depends(TM) eom

[rkc3]

5. I use them for Sunday football games. I can sit and watch the double

header with a case of beer and three bags of Doritos - and never have to leave the couch.

[Fridays Child]

4. My mom always used to ask me if I needed to go to the bathroom before...

...I gave my U. N. speech.

[kenny blankenship]

7. I'm still on the fence.

Is there a third category? Like maybe he's human in origin, but his soul in is hock with Satan?
That would explain things better in my opinion.

[klook]

9. Turing Test

If it acts and responds like a human, I guess we have to give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is a human.

"When talking about the Turing Test today what is generally understood is the following: The interrogator is connected to one person and one machine via a terminal, therefore can't see her counterparts. Her task is to find out which of the two candidates is the machine, and which is the human only by asking them questions. If the machine can "fool" the interrogator, it is intelligent."
source: http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html

Bush is an automoton, but he's learned to imitate many of our behaviors. Sort of like Starman, only with less empathy.

[WePurrsevere]

10. My DH's response was "Good grief, you'd think with Bush having been the...

Gov of Texas and living there he would have heard of a "Texas Catheter". To which I replied with drippingly sweet faux sympathy, "Well Hun, maybe he had to go the 'other' ya know? After all lord, knows he's full enough of it." :D