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#1 2010-01-16 17:42:23

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'steak dinner' for 'state dinner'

State Dinners are ceremonious, extravagant and portentous. And so too, sometimes, are steak dinners. Note – the recent White House State Dinner referred to below, the one that a pair of interlopers invaded, was in honor of the visiting Indian PM- no steak was served.

This is an official dinner with a foreign head of state. What would you suggest they eat … It’s an official steak dinner, don’t they have to serve steak. ...
www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/11 … nts-2.html

To the editor: I don’t understand why the White House is so upset about the two party crashers at Barack Obama’s steak dinner the other night. ...
beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/party-crashers/

Reportedly, some balloon boy wannabe t.v. reality goons just crashed a steak dinner at the White House …
thedailyzing.com/tag/white-house/

Jan 5, 2010 … I bet these people are the ones who crashed the white house steak dinner.
www.epicfail.com/2010/01/05/boyfriend-fail-4/

Nov 24, 2009 … President Obama hosts 320 diplomats from India for a steak dinner …
wfnx.com/.../the-sandbox-recap-11-24-09-by-intern-korn-bread.aspx

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