Pick a caption: Kissinger at KinkakujiApril 22nd, 2009 by Roy Berman |
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Doctor Henry Kissinger, April 21, 2009, 11:07 AM at Kinkakuji (The Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto.
Any suggestions for an appropriate caption?
(While we’re talking about him, here’s a post I made about him in 2005, very likely one of the earliest posts of substance on this blog.)
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
“I’d clear this out, if I were you, and make room for a car park.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
“This water is particularly good for cleaning off the blood on your hands.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Kissinger picked the most vanilla and innocent historical landmark possible. He should go visit the Khmer Rouge prisons in Cambodia to see what he paved the way for!
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
“Zat over zeya, zat is ze one part of the world I never had a chance to take a schitt on.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
“I’ll buy zat for a dollar.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
You’ve all missed the obvious one!
“Apparently somebody was able to burn this place before I could get to it.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
“So shiny… how did ve miss zis in ‘45?”
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
“Ah-ha! I think I’ve got it. Mishima was gay. Mishima wrote about Kinkakuji. I am at Kinkakuji, and I am by the water. Now I know why you are all calling me a gay fish!”
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:08 am
:sniff:
The man is a genius. To think his genius is being besmirtched in this comment section, it brings tears to my eyes. Bless you, Henry.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:23 am
You know, it’s very, very possible to be both a genius and a complete dickhead. In fact, there’s a rather high correlation between the two…
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 am
He could be also saying “Now China over there… they’ve had 4000 years of uninterrupted government and have never done anything aggressive in their 7000 years of history!”
or to use another one of the “related posts” –
“Do they have canned wine in that vending machine over there?”
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 am
I like this photo better:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/03WB7wp1J4cP4
Which is a “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” way of getting to my favorite photo of the year:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/03WB7wp1J4cP4
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 am
Oops, the second link is here
http://www.daylife.com/photo/00wV9fVdKd1PU
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 am
How could you all miss this.The next candidate for the caption contest.
http://plus.yomiuri.co.jp/yolimg/2009/04/06/20090406-120210-1-N.jpg
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:17 am
I’ve got it. He’s saying –
“Wait… isn’t that guy over there that famous anti-Chinese Japanese rightwinger Jackie Chan?”
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:53 am
“I’m giving you an offer you can’t refuse”.
Or
“That was a rocket,not a missile.Got it?”.
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:59 am
Thinking about Kissinger,a genius theory.
Is he really?
I’ve always thought of the Kissinger fame as the equivalent of the would-be-status of what Paul Allen in alternative universe where Allen and Bill Gates had founded MICROSOFT in China and Gates had to stuck with politburo beyond the bamboo curtain sit right next by Mao.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:31 am
I was born in Germany in 1969 and spent my childhood there during the 70ties. Kissinger was hugely popular there during the 70ties. I remember singing a chant dedicated to Kissinger and dancing in the streets with other kids when he got the Nobel Prize.
I guess the germans at that time recognized him more a “German” than as a American.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:11 am
Wow not everyone gets to shake hands with the PM when they visit the country.
Note to tourism promoters: Maybe you could start offering audiences with Aso as an attraction?
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
“You know, it’s very, very possible to be both a genius and a complete dickhead. In fact, there’s a rather high correlation between the two…”
I’ll drink to that!
Cf. John Maynard Keynes
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Bryce’s second photo troubles me. I want to come up with a caption that doesn’t involve farting, but the temptation to have the Ish pop one is too great.
April 24th, 2009 at 4:20 am
For the original picture:
“I’m in the mood to burn me some commies. Is Ritsumeikan that way?”
April 24th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Kissinger will be so sad when he finds out he’s 30 years late to find any commies at Ritsumeikan.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
“Nah,Za Chineze build zem vigger and vetter”.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Having jolly time in the old city in far east just before burning down another in the middle east.
http://www.friedwire.org/new_pictures/rumsfeld_geisha.jpg
April 25th, 2009 at 5:12 am
“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result.”
– Yukio Mishima
April 25th, 2009 at 8:36 am
And that’s something neither Mishima nor Kissinger have achieved. Result.They were both good at media manipulation and that’s about it.
April 25th, 2009 at 9:42 am
“They were both good at media manipulation and that’s about it.”
Mishima was also very good at one-armed push-ups.
April 25th, 2009 at 11:56 am
And Kissinger once had a date with a berry dancer.
April 27th, 2009 at 8:45 am
“Kissinger will be so sad when he finds out he’s 30 years late to find any commies at Ritsumeikan.”
Yeah, they’re all at Kyodai now in the Yoshida and Kumano dorms. A single match would be more than enough to burn both places down.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am
I don’t think he is bothered much about tenured liberals,since he too was one of the members of the Harvard establishment before he joined the white house.