The Anonymous Widower

Berlusconi Sues

So Silvio Berlusconi is going to sue the media all over the Europe for the reporting of his life in the last few years.

I did have rather a laugh at this story, as although I might like to be seen in the company of large numbers of gorgeous bimbos, or in Berlusconi’s case is it bimboni, but I really am not the man to do that.  I’m just too short at just 1.71 metres or five foot seven and a bit in Imperial units, which everybody still keeps using, to attract them in more than odd numbers.  And anyway, I’m too busy writing software to try to organise my life around bevys of young ladies.

But it got me thinking.  Am I really too short?

And then I found this web page.  When I looked at it, it had an advert for elevator shoes!

But I’m taller than Berlusconi (1.62 m.), Sarkozy (1.65 m.) and Putin (1.67 m.). I was surprised about the last one, so perhaps that’s why all those action man pictures show him by himself.  Or on a pony!

So perhaps, I’m in the wrong job.  I think though most British Prime Ministers are fairly tall.  I remember being in a lift with John Major in Athens and he towered above me.  So I’m out!  And who’d want the job anyway.

My late wife did her first barrister’s pupilage in libel chambers. Her advice to Silvio would have been don’t sue.  You’ll only give lawyers a lot of money and make matters worse.  Even if you win!

I’ll end with a quote from Mrs. Merton to Debbie Magee – “So Debbie, what first attracted you to multi millionaire Paul Daniels?”

August 29, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | News | Berlusconi, John Major, Politics