Bush Watch

People have been discussing the why's and wherefor's of Bush's Albanian Watch Problem: why was his wristwatch on his wrist before he was mobbed by a crowd of "admiring" Albanians, and why was it gone afterwards? Now they say Bush slipped it in his pocket.

Indeed. Consider Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail:

"Oh, God!" a man standing next to me muttered. I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively - for the first time in a long while - by slipping my notebook into my bent and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is always your watch, and once you've lost a few, you develop a certain instinct...

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