Thread: Few Facts about Barack Obama

Few Facts about Barack Obama

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.
  
  
• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball.
  
  
• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili.
  
  
• He is left-handed - the 6th post-war president to be left-handed.
  
  
• He has read every Harry Potter book.
  
  
• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.
  
  
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream.
  
  
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars.
  
  
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia.
  
  
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president - he didn't
  
  
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia.
  
  
• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck.
  
  
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
  
  
• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
  
  
• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine.
  
  
• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees.
  
  
• He enjoys Scrabble and poker.
  
  
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside.
  
  
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal.
  
  
• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita.
  
  
• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry.
  
  
• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes.
  
  
• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers.
  
  
• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds.

One more you forgot!
He is a Human


just joking,Thanks for this post!

very informative.. hats off...... i liked this post very much..

Read it on Times of India....seems you typed it manually..good job!

Originally Posted by navjotjsingh

Read it on Times of India....seems you typed it manually..good job!

THere is epaper available!

www.epaper.timeofindia.com

i dont think news are same as news paper.. i feel news papre more interesting..

Thanks for the info rameshjeee

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

i dont think news are same as news paper.. i feel news papre more interesting..

I'm glad to hear that...

ya thts the truth.. i mean.. almost all ppl find news paper more comfortable more handy and interesting... in morning.. i dont feel like popping my eyes in front of my lappy.. reading news.. i prefer.. sitting with family members with cup of coffee n breakfast.. enjoying moments... i think... and... after all.. many ppl have the habit of reading news paper to PERSONAL PLACES (toilet) i have seen many taking news paper inside.. reading comfortably.. and like they arre addicted unless without news paper.. the activity remains unfulfilled.. something like tht.. .. where u cant take laptop.. :lol:

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

ya thts the truth.. i mean.. almost all ppl find news paper more comfortable more handy and interesting... in morning.. i dont feel like popping my eyes in front of my lappy.. reading news.. i prefer.. sitting with family members with cup of coffee n breakfast.. enjoying moments... i think... and... after all.. many ppl have the habit of reading news paper to PERSONAL PLACES (toilet) i have seen many taking news paper inside.. reading comfortably.. and like they arre addicted unless without news paper.. the activity remains unfulfilled.. something like tht.. .. where u cant take laptop.. :lol:

ha ha ha LOL...

Same story with me...

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

ya thts the truth.. i mean.. almost all ppl find news paper more comfortable more handy and interesting... in morning.. i dont feel like popping my eyes in front of my lappy.. reading news.. i prefer.. sitting with family members with cup of coffee n breakfast.. enjoying moments... i think... and... after all.. many ppl have the habit of reading news paper to PERSONAL PLACES (toilet) i have seen many taking news paper inside.. reading comfortably.. and like they arre addicted unless without news paper.. the activity remains unfulfilled.. something like tht.. .. where u cant take laptop.. :lol:

hmmm what more can i say about tis but :lol:

thanks for this Ramesh, good post, trust you to provide interesting and good info like this!

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

many ppl have the habit of reading news paper to PERSONAL PLACES (toilet) i have seen many taking news paper inside.. reading comfortably.. and like they arre addicted unless without news paper.. the activity remains unfulfilled.. something like tht.. .. where u cant take laptop.. :lol:

you don't know why they are taking the newspaper into the toilet.
maybe they ran out of toilet paper and/or water ;-)

-F

Hi
When I posted about the Obama mania in the papers
I got a big note about human trafficking . I just posted
I am not a spokesman and we Indians are passive people .
I dont know whether yu people have better comments to throw at him
padma

Originally Posted by farce

you don't know why they are taking the newspaper into the toilet.
maybe they ran out of toilet paper and/or water ;-)

-F

:lol:

Originally Posted by padnar

Hi
When I posted about the Obama mania in the papers
I got a big note about human trafficking . I just posted
I am not a spokesman and we Indians are passive people .
I dont know whether yu people have better comments to throw at him
padma

Could you be a bit more clear.

You wrote something that was published in papers?

who sent you the note about human traficking?

what kind of "better comments" should we "throw" at him and why?

-F

Originally Posted by padnar

Hi
When I posted about the Obama mania in the papers
I got a big note about human trafficking .

sorry didn't understand what u said...

good to see u back Padnar!

Hope this guy can remove America from the mess its currently in.

Originally Posted by farce

you don't know why they are taking the newspaper into the toilet.
maybe they ran out of toilet paper and/or water ;-)

-F

no tht is in case of US if it happens .. :lol: we indians dont usually use tissue papers.. especially in toilets.. lol... not much..

Originally Posted by powerdoc

Hope this guy can remove America from the mess its currently in.

Sorry I was not a bit clear. i regularly surf Zeotroupe
as I am a screenwriter. In the forum discussion
they spoke about Obama mania . Actually this thread was about
Obama , When I wrote about how our media loves Obama
one guy started taking about Human trafficking .
About how India deals with human traffic . I just got a bit taken up
and i said that we are not doing anything about terrorism
though we know who is responsible for it . I just want a fitting reply
padma

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

good to see u back Padnar!

Thanks Preethi.
padma

good info jee....!!1 i got to kno em.....on tv news.....while i was watching the inaugral ceremony n we r one concert.....during the breaks....!!!!!

I too watchrd the inaugural ceremony and was surprised that Obama was not standing inside a bullet proof enclosure. Very different from our leaders I shd say!! May be his Muslim middle name gives him immunity against terrorists!!

Originally Posted by Kangaroo

I too watchrd the inaugural ceremony and was surprised that Obama was not standing inside a bullet proof enclosure. Very different from our leaders I shd say!! May be his Muslim middle name gives him immunity against terrorists!!

From what I had read in TOI, he was wearing some sort of special bullet proof suit.

Originally Posted by powerdoc

From what I had read in TOI, he was wearing some sort of special bullet proof suit.

Atleast he could have faith in his bullet proof suit that it would protect him. Here , we can't be sure of that as well considering what happened to ATS chief in Mumbai