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The Bush Shoe

Ever since Muntader Al Zaidi threw his shoes at President Bush, Turkish shoemaker Ramazan Baydan, who has claimed, like several other shoemakers across the Middle East, to have made the famous pair, has been deluged with orders: 15,000 orders from Iraq, 18,000 from the United States, and an offer from a representative from Britain to sell 95,000 pairs in Europe. Baydan has renamed the Ducati Model 271 as "The Bush Shoe," and claims that he was surprised by the shoe's aerodynamics. Unfortunately, Baydan's claims to have created Zaidi's shoes cannot be checked because, as The New York Times mysteriously reports, "Explosives tests by investigators destroyed the offending footwear."

Posted at 7:27 AM, Dec 21, 2008
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