http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//003599.html
A short video showing Hungary's prime minister impersonating British actor Hugh Grant could boost his chances of winning April's parliamentary elections, analysts say.
In a 45-second video clip available on the internet, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany imitates a scene from the 2003 film Love Actually in which Grant, playing the British prime minister, dances around 10 Downing Street to the tune of the Pointer Sisters' Jump (For My Love).
Gyurcsany made the clip last summer as part of a wedding present to government spokesman Andras Batiz.
"[Batiz] asked if it would bother me if he showed the clip to his friends and relatives, if it would embarrass me if my clowning around gained wider distribution," Gyurcsany wrote in his blog. "I answered that it would not."
Analysts said the clip, along with his blog, was a clear attempt by Gyurcsany to appeal to younger voters and help lighten his image.
"The scene is particularly surprising for someone who is widely seen as the epitome of restraint and seriousness," Availo Vesselinov, a London-based analyst for German investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, said in a report released today.
Vesselinov said Gyurcsany's Socialist Party, while still trailing the centre-right Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Union by a few points in the polls, could make gains among the nearly one-third of voters still undecided.
Oh, those honkys!
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Honky - LOL, I forgot about that word!!! - This is just toooooo weird - before I came down to the computer there was a commecial on upstairs playing some toe tapping music which Jim and I were rocking back and forth to - I thought to myself, I wonder who that is - and this blog helped me 'The Pointer Sisters' singing JUMP! Too much - your blog is now officially cosmic! LOL! - MJT -----P.S. - The word verification today looks honky! - hee hee!
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