Wednesday, April 02, 2008

They're All Just Satellites of Planet Ursula


Austria's foreign minister Ursula Plassnik, front left, chats with her Hungarian counterpart Kinga Goencz, front right, outside a meeting of EU foreign ministers to discuss latest developments in Russia, Kosovo, Tibet and the Middle East, March 28, 2008 (AP Photo/Hopi-Media, Bernhard J. Holzner)

Aw, see how all the tiny people cluster around Ursula? She's like an island of refreshing lemon meringue. Everybody's smiling, laughing, and why not? It's the Anti-Condi, yay! I bet they were ALL wearing pastels within hours. For the affable Austrian giantess, being foreign minister is all about making friends and bringing people together:


Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, left, shakes hands with Slovenia's counterpart and President of the EU Council Dimitrij Rupel, right, as Austria's Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, center, looks on, as they pose for a group photo at the informal two-day EU foreign ministers meeting in Brdo Pri Kranju, Slovenia, Saturday, March 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)


I know! Weird, huh?

13 comments:

Fran said...

There is really only one thing that I can say, the words must be borrowed...

"Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it."

Matthew Hubbard said...

FranIAm beat me to it, but as impressed as I am with the height of Our Ursula (and for those keepign score at home, I am VERY impressed), it's the smiles that always get me. People are happy to be around her, just as I or any other Pony Pal would be.

Karen said...

As a BIG girl, I'm counting on the lovely pastel princess Ursula to make being a giantess fashionable! If anyone can.....

Your driver said...

Scary to consider that she's just as intelligent, sophisticated and worldly wise as our Condi, but she uses it in positive way. Wait, maybe she's more intelligent, sophisticated and worldly wise than the frightened cynical punks who run US foreign policy. Ya think so?

Peteykins said...

Jon, it was exciting hearing you work through that.

zoe said...

The shoes! the scarves! The SMILE! She IS the anti-Condi...

I think I have a woman crush

Fran said...

Zoe- get in line sister!!

dguzman said...

She's just so much bigger than everyone else, in so many ways. sigh.

Your driver said...

I like to think that the obvious is not wasted on me.

Anonymous said...

She's like Maria, leading the Von Trapp children in song!

Anonymous said...

It's no wonder Kinga is wearing a scarf in homage!

Anonymous said...

All you straight girls get out of my way! She's MINE and I plan to keep her.

samael7 said...

<3<3<3
Could I possibly LOVE HER any more?
Just the thought that I maybe might just could POSSIBLY love her more makes me positively SWOON!
<3<3<3