Sarko to walk tall in factory visit

French president Nick Sarko has once again demonstrated his touchiness about his lack of international standing by sending operatives ahead of a planned factory visit to make sure he isn't overshadowed by less vertically-challenged workers. According to the La République des Pyrénées, Le Prez is due to pop into the Turbomeca …

[Steen Hive]

Nork

Sounds like a transcript of Kim Jong-Il visiting the People's Glorious Revolutionary Aeronautical Works, really.

[blackworx]

That last paragraph

Made me think of a line in the *ahem* classic midget spy spoof "For Y'Ur Height Only". It went something like "what I lack in height I make up for in other departments, hur hur hur hur".

Also, I wonder what Sarkozy's reaction would be if someone were to rub his head and say "awww, does the wittle pwesident feel all self consciouscy wonsciousy about his wittle weggy wegs".

[The Vociferous Time Waster]

simples

he'd have you shot

[dogged]

Answer:

"Non. Moi, je suis shagging Carla Bruni. En coulez".

[Captain TickTock]

En coulez?

I think encule' - is the word you're after : http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encul%C3%A9

Bon baisers,

Le Maquis de Grammaire et Vocabulaire.

[dogged]

pedantry

If I'd meant a proper French answer, I'd hardly have used the term "shagging".

et "bon baisers" à toi, aussi.

[Captain TickTock]

Hard to tell...

With all the word stealing that goes on ;-)

(in both directions across the channel)

And who in their right mind would use the same word to mean kiss and f*ck?

une biere SVP

[Captain TickTock]

et une

pour mon ami.

[Dazed and Confused]

Discrimination

Doesn't this count as discrimination? I'm sure the would be up roar if he'd said "get all the ??? people out of the room"

??? choose your own ethnic/gender/... group to insert in here.

[JohnG]

Putin same height

Vladimir Putin is also 5' 5" but it doesn't appear to bother him at all.

[Anonymous Coward]

For some reason

I expect people to be less inclined to tease Putin about his height.

Mumble mumble KGB mumble mumble polonium tea mumble mumble Anna Politkovskaya mumble mumble...

[Winkypop]

Bring your kid to work day

Hey sonny, would you like me to lift you up so's you can see?

[Anonymous Coward]

Literally in de Gaulle's shadow

As "the one with the big 'ooter" was 6ft 5in

[Ball boy]

Wrong measurement

Where I come from, the critical meansurement is the one from the neck UP. Oh hold on, he still loses out by a country mile. Poor man - he just can't win, can he?

The hand because that's how they measure their lunch in France.

[Trokair 1]

Had to be said

Napoleon complex.

The one with the paintball gun in the pocket please.

[Graham Marsden]

How tall was Napoleon Bonaparte...?

Boney surrounded himself with members of the Imperial Guard who all stood at least 6' tall and it didn't seem to cause him a problem!

(Although that begs the question "How tall was the Duke of Wellington"... ;-) )

[Captain TickTock]

How tall?

Not that short apparently... he was of average height for his time. It was the British press which caricaturised him as being short and it stuck.

[dogged]

Wellington

was about six foot two, according to wikianswers.

[pedrodude]

Keyboard now, please.

Just seen the "shortarse" tag. That's why I read El Reg.

[Rogerborg]

Wellington cheated as well though

He only ever walked on mounds of dead Frenchmen.

[Anonymous Coward]

He just needs a big top hat

Doesn't really matter if you're not at all well bred, etc...

[hamcheeseandonion]

Telling it like it is - right on, far out and solid Bob

Four words:

Randy

Newman

Short

People

'Nuff said

[Mr Young]

I sometimes wish I had small man syndrome

But all I got was knackered knees and a sore back instead. Bah

[Nick Kew]

Would you sneer at Obama for his colour?

No? Thought not. So why this mockery of another physical characteristic?

Mine's the shabby one of indeterminate size.

[Svantevid]

You've missed the point

It's not about the height, Nick. It's about him desperately trying to hide it, to the point of removing all non-dwarfish workers from the room he is in.

_That_ fully deserves ridicule.

Kudos for the "shortarse" tag, El Reg.

[ratfox]

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I guess the difference is that Obama does not pick people of the right color to appear with him so as to make him look good...

Cheers!

[Rattus Rattus]

Why the mockery?

Does Obama forbid light-skinned people around him on a photo-op so he doesn't look too dark by comparison? No? And yet Sarko won't allow tall people in a photo with him because he doesn't want to look too short. Well, there's your difference then. Sarkozy himself has made this physical characteristic an issue, we're just running with it.

[Doogs]

Why?

Because he doesn't get everyone to "black up" to make himself feel better, perhaps?

They're not mocking his physical characteristics, They're mocking his mental problems. So much more acceptable nowadays...