The Three Magi

Status: Fake
Yes, that's Tony Blair on the left and President Bush on the right. In the middle is the Duke of Edinburgh. They're dressed up as the three magi. It's pretty obvious that the picture is fake. Bush and Blair didn't really don these costumes. But it's not fake in the sense of being photoshopped. These are actually dummies (wax dummies, specifically) that appeared in a nativity scene at London's Madame Tussauds last Christmas. (Victoria and David Beckham served as Mary and Joseph.) Church leaders protested the scene, and it was soon shut down after being vandalized. But this picture still seems to be circulating around.
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Posted on Mon Dec 19, 2005


Comments

Those church leaders. Always being not amused.
Posted by Citizen Premier  on  Mon Dec 19, 2005  at  11:35 PM
A wax dummy, eh? So it is the real Bush!
Posted by Terry Austin  on  Tue Dec 20, 2005  at  09:18 AM
I knew it wasnt them, after all, the Magi were "wise" men.
Posted by Tom  on  Thu Dec 22, 2005  at  04:42 AM
Very English humour, and the built-in giveawya is the Duke - A man whose wisdom and public utterances are not immediately reconcilable.

This after all is the man who once asked the then new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, during the official handover of power from England, " Are you sure you want to do this?"
Posted by DFStuckey  on  Tue Jan 03, 2006  at  09:56 PM
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