‘Rice to play piano at meet’

‘Rice to play piano at meet’
7/26/2006 11:47:34 PM
- By AFP


Kuala Lumpur, July 26: The best-kept secret in global diplomacy is out — US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will perform a piano recital at the annual gala of Asia’s top security meeting, diplomats and reports said.

The Asean Regional Forum this year has a heavy agenda with conflict raging in the West Asia, a missile crisis on the Korean peninsula, and fury over Burma’s refusal to embrace democratic reforms. But foreign ministers from the 26-nation grouping will have some light relief at the traditional gala dinner during which the world’s top diplomats put aside protocol and perform hilarious skits and musical routines. US secretaries have been particularly keen to poke fun at themselves, with Colin Powell belting out "YMCA" two years ago and Madeleine Albright donning bowler hat and tuxedo in a show-biz turn.

Ms Rice however — a trained pianist with a famously serious demeanour — is expected to perform a work from one of her favourite composers, who include Brahms and Shostakovich, the New Straits Times said.
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http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=3&cat2=34&newsid=237852&RF=DefaultMain

The band was playing 'Nearer My God To Thee,'
Fare thee well, Titanic,
Fare thee well.

:freak:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

And he ran around the wheelhouse twiiiiice...

Jamie Brockett.

How timely is that?

"I'm gonna moooove you, baby!"

sorry for the threadjack

know what I mean.

Oh, wait, you said "tap"... :hide:

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what wit looks like.

I'd like to be known as a wit, instead of a half-wit like some presidents we know!

Maybe Bush will tap dance in black face during the performance.
This is embarassing...

her part of the "pure evil" warmongers.

I wonder if any of those pompous and posturing war profiteers realize that most of the world community has them figured out?

I wonder what shoes she will wear...America wants to know the details on important stories such as this!

That was funny. :D

i would have figured Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" on a fiddle.

dp

:puke:

city burn (or drown).

This would be funny if it wasn't true.

"Springtiiiiiiiime for Condiiiiiiiii!"

by Messeian, if she can round up three more horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Interesting the administration has decided to promote an off-topic, for distraction, while the world burning. It's almost a familiar pattern by now.

Too busy in rehearsals. Mkay.

n/t

...to puke...:puke:

Get a clue.

but I bet she'll do a pretty good Nero impersonation

If only she was more determined to make music than she is to make war...

She was supposed to be fluent in Russian, but we found out she wasn't. I hope she plays piano better than she speaks Russian. If not, maybe she can impress them by doing a double Salchow and a triple Axel.

Is that like a trained seal?

Has anyone ever heard this souless woman "play"? Unfortunately I once heard a sample. The piano did not sound at all happy.

I can't quite figure out why I find this so funny, but I also cannot stop laughing. Seriously, thanks.
This thread is full of wonderful humor - and some very fine photo-shopping as well.

Then they can all have birthday cake and read a book about a pet goat.

Doesn't matter how serious or urgent the problem. Probably a good thing, too; my hunch is that as many problems have actually been solved in after-hours fraternizing as during actual talks at the negotiating table. We're primates, after all.

She looks completely anal and humourless, she is scary to look at. I would love to see Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright doing their star turns mind.

Will she murder Beethoven?

That's what happened to me. I was supposed to be a concert pianist. I could read music before I could read. And I started college as a music major. But around the end of my sophomore year, I started encountering prodigies, 12-year-olds who could play from sight what it had taken me all year to learn, and I thought, "I'm going to end up playing piano bar or teaching 13-year-olds to murder Beethoven or maybe playing at Nordstrom, but I'm not going to play Carnegie Hall." And I went to my parents and I decided that I had better find something else to do.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/66630.htm

Leave it to this mob to find a way to kill someone who died 179 years ago...

:puke:
:grr:
:mad:

Is it true what they say about black people?

It's true, it's true!

Apologies to Mel Brooks.

Wouldn't that be *magic* ??? :rofl:

I'd suspect that she'd tell everybody she was going to play the piano, walk up to the piano, sit down at the piano, start playing the piano... and then realize that she doesn't know how to play the piano.

Rummy will tootle a flute in public, and the Dickster Cheney will beat the 28-gage tympani close to Harry Whittington's ear.

What a total failure Rice is. What a fucking joke. Yeah play the ivories you fucking loser, Zod knows you can't broker peace between Israel and Hezbollah. You just don't have the ability, not your fault. Like George Bush and your other 'pals', you lack the ability to be human.

from piano recitals when she was a young girl.

Trying to re-live those glory days.