# So You Thought You Knew Pakistan's President

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-thought-you-knew-pakistans-president/92808>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 11, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-thought-you-knew-pakistans-president/92808 "2001-11-11T21:50:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![oblongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@oblongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oblongo)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-thought-you-knew-pakistans-president/92808/1 "2001-11-11T21:50:36Z")

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[http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/10/musharraf/index.html](http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/10/musharraf/index.html)

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-thought-you-knew-pakistans-president/92808/2 "2001-11-12T02:36:32Z")

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Soooo… what’s your point? I didn’t realize the SDMB was supposed to be a newswire service.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-thought-you-knew-pakistans-president/92808/3 "2001-11-12T02:56:31Z")

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That’s gotta be one of the weirdest Salon articles I’ve seen. So, these two women have a crush on the Prez of Pak? I’m, like, “So?” He likes dogs, he’s happily married, he wears Armani suits. Why do I have the feeling I’m reading a profile of Sting?

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> While he hasn’t quite reached the sex symbol status of the shaggy-haired prime minister of Japan…

Um, what?

Five thousand bonus points and a week in a hot tub with Pamela (or Russell) if you can even _name_ the shaggy-haired prime minister of Japan, and no fair looking it up on Google.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-thought-you-knew-pakistans-president/92808/4 "2001-11-12T03:13:48Z")

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Easy guide to Japanese PMs:

Junichiro Koizumi – shaggy sex symbol  
Mori – big dumb oaf  
Obuchi – nice guy, but dead  
Hashimoto – Ronald Reagan hair  
Murayama – gull-wing eyebrows  
?? – lasted 4 weeks  
Takeshita – funny name  
Nakasone – “Americans are fat, lazy and illiterate”  
No Google. Where’s my hottub? 😃