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Fake Obama meets fake Queen at fake G-20

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Final preparations on Tuesday were made to the waxwork model of President Obama at Madame Tussauds in London, as the model stands next to the waxwork creation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
  • By Jimmy Orr

Although the real President Obama hasn't arrived in Europe yet for the Group of 20 economic crisis summit in London, the fake Obama is already there.

In fact, the wax figure of President Obama met with the wax figure of the Queen of England earlier today at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.

The likenesses are pretty good. Although Obama's hand looks kind of like Carl Weather's hand in Happy Gilmore.

Discussions between the two wax leaders were reportedly good until a wax figure of ex-GM CEO Rick Wagoner came out with a blowtorch.

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