There’s a funny photo that’s been floating around the net for a couple of years: it’s Australian Prime Minister John Howard looking for all the world like he’s giving Federal Treasurer Peter Costello a blowjob.
Stuffed if I can find it though. All that will happen now is the next person to use my computer might Google something starting with ‘J’ and find out I’ve searched “John Howard blowjob”, which would take some explaining…
Public figures need to be careful not to offend photographers. In his book Rhubarb, writer H. Allen Smith, an ex newspaperman, had a scene where Thadeus Banner, the rich guy who owned the cat Rhubarb, insulted a photographer who thereupon, “Vowed to get a picture of him picking his nose.”