This is why it should be illegal for any meeting to be more than 30 minutes.

Also, no meetings should be conducted immediately after lunch.

I'm Skeptical.

Do they have any other proof then the photo? People who are reading often look asleep in photos.

Rann Xerox: Also, no meetings should be conducted immediately after lunch.

FTFMy sanity

Or at the very start or very end of a work day.

ZZZzzz...
^^^
This boring

Or present fifty complicated charts and graphs in a row for 30 seconds each.

I fell asleep while reading the headline.

Reagan fell asleep at his own cabinet meetings. Also, sometimes people get photographed when their eyes are shut.

Seabon: I'm Skeptical.

Do they have any other proof then the photo? People who are reading often look asleep in photos.

I was too at first but if you look at the whole gallery, it's pretty obvious... there's no way he was reading or the photographer just caught him with his eyes closed. Gotta laugh about it...

photo gallery: Link (new window)

Seabon: I'm Skeptical.

Do they have any other proof then the photo? People who are reading often look asleep in photos.

There is a link to a gallery in TFA with a few. Along with sunshine waking up.



/wakey, wakey

Sirsky: I was too at first but if you look at the whole gallery, it's pretty obvious... there's no way he was reading or the photographer just caught him with his eyes closed. Gotta laugh about it...


I know I've seen pictures of GHW Bush making fun of Brent Scowcroft falling asleep during cabinet meetings (interview linky mentions Scowcroft Award for the official most liable to fall asleep during critical meetings), but my gisfu is weak today, so no pic.

Give him some methamphetamine.

/just a lil'

Charismatic leader indeed.

Not enough teleprompter spinster liberal talk about socializing America to keep his cabinet awake.

ACORN.

ok, how to get summers onto my thesis defense committee?

I predict the imminent arrival of "OMG the Obamessiah can only hold people's attention if he has his teleprompter" wharrgarbling.

Oops, Putter beat me to the punch.

Really, don't people at the Washington Times have something better to do, like tongue Glorious Leader Rev Moon's balls?

proteus_b: ok, how to get summers onto my thesis defense committee?

You, sir, win one internet.


Also, if that many photographers and sound people are in a room, it's not an actual meeting. They had the real thing beforehand. So Larry technically isn't missing new information. He is, however, forgetting that it is a photo-op.

Maybe it was just a super long blink.

;)

"hand in chin - and what's worse - as the president is speaking."

I think this happens more often than is reported...
I mean a lecture from the professor is boring...

You know, I hate this "gotcha" mentality people have.

People, even leaders are human.
We're not stone, not machines...hell, even machines break down.

If someone has an illness, a bad night,
has been working his ass off,
or hell...maybe "leasure suit" Larry got lucky and pleasured a hot woman all night.
Who knows??

I don't care, what I care about is
Are they intelligent and talented enough
to do the work
solve the problems
and work their ass off in my favor.

If you have a bad day, bad phrase, catnap, trip, choke, blink, fart, etc.
who the fark cares??

Laugh it off, and go back to work.
Get over it.

Eh, he's the expert, he probably knows more about it already than all their briefings put together and sandwitched between the high school Econ textbooks used to prepare them. I'd be inclined to snooze, too.

//Cheap shot, but had to be done.
//Plus, that much media = press conference, what's to be done was decided a week ago, most likely.

Seabon: Sirsky: Seabon: I'm Skeptical.

Do they have any other proof then the photo? People who are reading often look asleep in photos.

I was too at first but if you look at the whole gallery, it's pretty obvious... there's no way he was reading or the photographer just caught him with his eyes closed. Gotta laugh about it...

photo gallery: Link (new window)

WTF...How could he fall asleep in a room like this?

That's what I wondered when I saw that pic.

I mean seriously how do you fall asleep at a meeting with the press AND President???

gee is it 100 days yet? Now that we know Chairman Obama is the failure we thought he would be, can we just hunker down for a really bad 4 years??????

At one company I worked for a long time ago, once a week we'd all go out for a big lunch and then when we got back to the office have our development meeting. Any time the meeting ran over 20 minutes or so, someone would fall asleep. When the meetings started to get sarcastically referred to as "nap time", we realized that maybe we should do the meeting, then go to lunch after.

first photo in the linked to series is a buddy of mine.

winterwhile: Now that we know Chairman Obama is the failure we thought he would be

you're nourishing us again...

er, taken by

*consults the Ben Stein Scale of Boring*

whidbey: *consults the Ben Stein Scale of Boring*

Summers?.........Summers?..............Summers?.........Has anybody seen Summers?.......

I saw this dude in action a lot at Harvard. Straight up asperger's case.

Thorndyke Barnhard: I mean seriously how do you fall asleep at a meeting with the press AND President???

I could do it easily. I used to fall asleep in wood shop class. Hell, I've fallen asleep in night clubs.

give him a break! he got his pally to 78 last night.

Thorndyke Barnhard: I mean seriously how do you fall asleep at a meeting with the press AND President???

Keywords. Doesn't matter who's there. Have you ever sat in on a government-related meeting of any kind? I try doing whatever it takes to stay awake, and I've almost fallen out of my chair on more than one occasion...it's an art.

Evil sleeps...

Neeek: Thorndyke Barnhard: I mean seriously how do you fall asleep at a meeting with the press AND President???

I could do it easily. I used to fall asleep in wood shop class. Hell, I've fallen asleep in night clubs.

I agree. It's really not that hard. I once fell asleep while leaning against the speakers at a concert.

If you're tired enough, you can fall asleep almost anywhere.

/My grandfather died peacefully in his sleep.
// The other three people in his car weren't so lucky.
/// old joke

Mr. Summers wasn't exactly hired for his winning personality or his willingness to toady...

i fall asleep after listening to this bore for 30 seconds