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Sock and Awe

Try your hand at hitting the dirty dog with your shoe. My wife’s definitely not a video gamer, so it took her a while, but she got a kick when she finally got him.

The first time I went I had to refresh before the game appeared. I got him twice on my first go round.

UPDATE: Speaking of shoes and Bush,it looks like Bush has finally brought some economic growth somewhere:

When a pair of black leather oxfords hurled at President Bush in Baghdad produced a gasp heard around the world, a Turkish cobbler had a different reaction: They were his shoes.

Although his assertion has been impossible to verify — cobblers from Lebanon, China and Iraq have also staked claims to what is quickly becoming some of the most famous footwear in the world — orders for Mr. Baydan’s shoes, formerly known as Ducati Model 271 and since renamed “The Bush Shoe,” have poured in from around the world.

A new run of 15,000 pairs, destined for Iraq, went into production on Thursday, he said. A British distributor has asked to become the Baydan Shoe Company’s European sales representative, with a first order of 95,000 pairs, and an American company has placed an order for 18,000 pairs. Four distributors are competing to represent the company in Iraq, where Baydan sold 19,000 pairs of this model for about $40 each last year.


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