Uneasy Marriage Between Shoemanship and Headlines
Passing through a metal detector to make sure no one is carrying a gun, is one thing, but things are changing.
Carry bags may be impounded in order to ensure you have not concealed any rotting tomatoes, eggs or fruit.
Soon you will see rows upon rows of shoes lined up at the entrance of a meeting place, just like outside a mosque, if the shoe-throwing craze gets any further out of control.
People will either have to begin carrying an extra shoe, or you will find a lot of one-shoed people hobbling home after public meetings.
Either way, shoe manufacturers will do a roaring trade.
While Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, was talking to students at Cambridge University in Britain, he was called a dictator, by a passionate shoe-flinging flung protester.
"How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator"? he yelled from the rear of the audience.
The police arrested the shoe-thrower on suspicion of a public order offense.
Mr Wen described the incident as 'despicable', while the Chinese government denounced the incident as being deplorable.
This comes hard on the heels of the attack by the disgruntled shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at President George W.
Bush.
While Mr Bush made jokes about the incident later, the journalist is facing charges of aggression against a foreign head of state.
If convicted he could face up to 15 years in jail.
Protesters joined together outside the White House on the last day of President Bush's administration.
The hundred or so demonstrators were armed with bags of shoes.
"Don't hit me", laughed one of the guards on duty behind the White House fence, as shoes tumbled down around him.
Thousands of others chose to join the demonstrators, taking time out to toss a shoe over the fence.
"It's not that we hate Bush, we just hate what he has done to the country", one demonstrator explained.
Many felt it was the healthy way to get the Bush period out of their system.
A small truck hauled all the shoes away.
However, shoetime was actually commenced with Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian Premier, when in 1956 he bashed the speaker's podium with his shoe, saying that the US economy would bury capitalism.
Was he looking into a crystal ball? Krushchev then followed this with another eruption at the United Nations when he lost it with the Philippine delegation, telling them they were nothing more than American stooges.
Whichever way you look at it, being a shoe manufacturer right now could be a once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity.
Carry bags may be impounded in order to ensure you have not concealed any rotting tomatoes, eggs or fruit.
Soon you will see rows upon rows of shoes lined up at the entrance of a meeting place, just like outside a mosque, if the shoe-throwing craze gets any further out of control.
People will either have to begin carrying an extra shoe, or you will find a lot of one-shoed people hobbling home after public meetings.
Either way, shoe manufacturers will do a roaring trade.
While Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, was talking to students at Cambridge University in Britain, he was called a dictator, by a passionate shoe-flinging flung protester.
"How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator"? he yelled from the rear of the audience.
The police arrested the shoe-thrower on suspicion of a public order offense.
Mr Wen described the incident as 'despicable', while the Chinese government denounced the incident as being deplorable.
This comes hard on the heels of the attack by the disgruntled shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at President George W.
Bush.
While Mr Bush made jokes about the incident later, the journalist is facing charges of aggression against a foreign head of state.
If convicted he could face up to 15 years in jail.
Protesters joined together outside the White House on the last day of President Bush's administration.
The hundred or so demonstrators were armed with bags of shoes.
"Don't hit me", laughed one of the guards on duty behind the White House fence, as shoes tumbled down around him.
Thousands of others chose to join the demonstrators, taking time out to toss a shoe over the fence.
"It's not that we hate Bush, we just hate what he has done to the country", one demonstrator explained.
Many felt it was the healthy way to get the Bush period out of their system.
A small truck hauled all the shoes away.
However, shoetime was actually commenced with Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian Premier, when in 1956 he bashed the speaker's podium with his shoe, saying that the US economy would bury capitalism.
Was he looking into a crystal ball? Krushchev then followed this with another eruption at the United Nations when he lost it with the Philippine delegation, telling them they were nothing more than American stooges.
Whichever way you look at it, being a shoe manufacturer right now could be a once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity.
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