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ISTANBUL, Dec 22: The maker of the shoes that an Iraqi journalist hurled
at US President George W. Bush has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope
with a surge in demand for his footwear, he said on Monday.
"Between the day of the incident and 1:00 pm today we have received orders
totalling 370,000 pairs," Istanbul-based Serkan Turk, head of sales at
Baydan Shoes, told AFP.
Normally the firm sold only 15,000 pairs a year of the model that Muntazer
al-Zaidi threw at the US president at a press conference in Baghdad on
December 14 to become an instant hero across the Arab world, he said.
Turk said orders had initially flooded in from Iraq, followed by other
Middle East countries and finally from the rest of the world, including
for 19,000 pairs from the United States.
Formerly prosaically dubbed Model 271, the black polyurethane-soled shoes
have been renamed Bush Shoes, he said . . . .
http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/23/top11.htm
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tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
Decorum, after all, was a more subtle and ultimately more
satisfactory weapon than high feelings and improper conduct.
< Vance
at US President George W. Bush has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope
with a surge in demand for his footwear, he said on Monday.
"Between the day of the incident and 1:00 pm today we have received orders
totalling 370,000 pairs," Istanbul-based Serkan Turk, head of sales at
Baydan Shoes, told AFP.
Normally the firm sold only 15,000 pairs a year of the model that Muntazer
al-Zaidi threw at the US president at a press conference in Baghdad on
December 14 to become an instant hero across the Arab world, he said.
Turk said orders had initially flooded in from Iraq, followed by other
Middle East countries and finally from the rest of the world, including
for 19,000 pairs from the United States.
Formerly prosaically dubbed Model 271, the black polyurethane-soled shoes
have been renamed Bush Shoes, he said . . . .
http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/23/top11.htm
--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
Decorum, after all, was a more subtle and ultimately more
satisfactory weapon than high feelings and improper conduct.
< Vance