impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
“Handlers fail to stop Cowen’s close-up with a giant spud”
In the popular episode of the Simpsons which featured U2, Homer sneaks into the Springfield Stadium claiming to be a ‘Potato Man.’ The security guards at the door quickly reply, “Where the hell have you been?” and let him in. This joke aimed at a rather wacky Irish stereotype may infact be true.
There was a protective cordon thrown around Brian Cowen as he arrived at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin for the launch of Paidi O Se’s football tournament. His media handlers were determined to protect their man to the bitter end. There was no way that the Taoiseach was going to be photographed standing next to a giant Mr Tayto.
Bono is Omnipresent
At the recent opening of the Cannes Film Festival, Bono for no apparent reason passed a potato to a perfect stranger. Perhaps he is promoting Irishness or good health or indeed a worthy cause that a mega celebrity would donate their time to. It could also be that he feels the woman is a bit malnourished and much like a potato-less famine victim needs to fatten up. What next? He might pull a pint of Guiness from his back pocket or some Shamrock from his arse. We’ll wait in anticipation.
http://fireglo.blogspot.com/2007/05/bono-finally-uses-homers-potato-man.html
I bet biffo would murder the huge bag of taytos after a toke
In May 2007, Cowen told Jason O’Toole of Hot Press that, as a student, “I would say there were a couple of occasions when marijuana was passed around – and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale! There wasn’t a whole lot in it really”
poor paudi has been burned by the cameras and the internet just recently, he looks pissed off this time