LOL The shoemaker can't keep up with sales for model 271 brogues!

[lonestarnot]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/22/shoe.thrower.turkey/?iref=hpmostpop

(CNN) -- The shoes thrown last week at U.S. President George W. Bush have provided an unexpected windfall for the shoemaker who made them.

Sales of the shoes made famous by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi have soared, with requests pouring in to the Turkish shoemaker from across the world, media reports said Monday.

As a result, Istanbul-based Ramazan Baydan has had to recruit an extra 100 staff to meet orders for 300,000 pairs of the "Model 271 brogues," Britain's Daily Mail said.

According to the company, Model 271 shoes are exported to markets including Iraq, Iran, Syria and Egypt. Last week customers in Iraq ordered 120,000 pairs and some Iraqis offered to set up distribution companies for the shoe, Baydan told Bloomberg.





U.S. President Imposter!

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Gives new meaning to the phrase

"Speaking with a brogue."

Or speaking with a brogan, for that matter.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. See! Bush DID create jobs

[AndyTiedye]

3. Are They Being Imported Into the US Yet?

[StudsT]

4. i hope he donates some of the proceeds to the brave iraqi journalist who started this

i suspect he is gonna be in great need of any funding he can get.

StudsT

[lonestarnot]

5. Yes. That would be a very good idea!

[Swamp Rat]

6. I want a pair!!

:D

[lonestarnot]

9. Jabba da Rick! LOL Nice work as usual!

:hug:

[Swamp Rat]

10. Merry Fucking Christmas

:hug:

[lonestarnot]

12. Merry fucking Christmas Swampie.

:hug:

[surrealAmerican]

7. I'm picturing people watching the shoe-throwing incident ...

... all saying, "Oh, nice shoes!" I guess you never know what people will focus on.

[mdmc]

8. any on-line links?

Could we get these shoes in the USA?

[lonestarnot]

11. This shoe maker is apparently in Turkey. You can search Bush shoes and prollee find him.

[mdmc]

13. thanks

and peace

[Orsino]

14. Perhaps only * can fail in such an epic manner. n/t

[Zuni]

15. I don't need to buy expensive foreign shoes

I have all the shoes I need right here, in my heart.

[mdmc]

16. kick