VIENNA (AP) — Who says the Terminator can't be licked? Some 600,000 new postage stamps featuring a likeness of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went on sale Friday — his 57th birthday — in his native Austria, and the postal service said it was bracing for heavy demand.
E-mail requests for the $1.20 stamp have flooded the nation's postal headquarters in Vienna, spokesman Johannes Angerer said. Austrians eager to buy it showed up early Friday, but there were no long lines.
"Now you can 'stick' Arnie!" Austrian state television exulted in a report on the stamp's release.
The stamp features an image of Schwarzenegger in a dark suit and tie superimposed over the American and Austrian flags. The text reads simply: "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger."
The actor-turned-politician best known for the "Terminator" series of action films was born on July 30, 1947, in the village of Thal just outside the southern Austrian city of Graz. He collected stamps himself as a boy, the postal service noted proudly.
The Schwarzenegger stamp is part of a collectors' series called "Austrians Living Abroad."
About 75,000 of the new stamps have been set aside for Austrian and foreign collectors, but the rest were fair game for ordinary people. They were trading on e-Bay for $2 apiece Friday, well under the $9.99 offers that circulated two weeks ago, when the postal service first announced their release.
Schwarzenegger, now a naturalized U.S. citizen, emigrated to the United States in 1968 to pursue his career as a bodybuilder and movie star. The former Mr. Universe made his first visit to Austria as California governor earlier this month, representing the United States at the state funeral of President Thomas Klestil.
Schwarzenegger also met privately with Simon Wiesenthal, the Austrian Holocaust survivor famous for his hunt of Nazi war criminals.
The actor remains immensely popular in his home country, where a sports stadium in Graz bears his name. Most Austrians refer to him affectionately as "Arnie."
The California Republican joins Mick Jagger and Pope John Paul II, whose images also have appeared on Austrian postage stamps in recent years.
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I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
Good for Arnold. The world's second most famous austrian.
How is he doing as governor btw? Is California still in one piece?
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That's good to hear. If we get cracking on the 28th Amendment, we could have a Schwarzenegger-Giuliani Republican ticket in 2008. Or McCain-Schwarzenegger.
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Aren't they? MAYBE Clinton-Obama could beat them (or vice-versa), but I can't think of any other Democrats who could. Naturally, we'll get some horseshit like Frist-DeLay instead.
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I suppose it depends on how 2004 goes down. If Bush wins, probably expect more of the same in 2008, if he loses, expect something different.
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I would definitely vote for McCain-Schwarzenegger (and I'm a democrat). Even better would be McCain-Obama (one America, people! )
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Howedar wrote:Fuck McCain. Why does everyone love McCain like he's the second coming?
He's not Bush.
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
Howedar wrote:Fuck McCain. Why does everyone love McCain like he's the second coming?
He's not Bush.
Neither was Joseph Stalin. Not being Bush doesn't make him great in his own right. You'll have to do better than that.
Relax, it was a joke poking fun of the "I'm voting for Kerry because he's not George W. Bush" mentality.
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
Really warms the heart to see your favourite actor end up as such a success-story. Man, God bless Arnold.
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RedImperator wrote:That's good to hear. If we get cracking on the 28th Amendment, we could have a Schwarzenegger-Giuliani Republican ticket in 2008. Or McCain-Schwarzenegger.
Holy crap. The prediction in Demolition Man is coming true!
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Cao Cao wrote:Holy crap. The prediction in Demolition Man is coming true!
Wasn't that "Last action hero"?
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McCain has been a powerful force for reform in professional boxing over the years. It's not a big-name issue that wins votes, but still he's put forth a lot of effort and accomplished a lot.
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Cao Cao wrote:Holy crap. The prediction in Demolition Man is coming true!
Wasn't that "Last action hero"?
No, it was Demolition Man alright: I remember that scene quite well...
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Stalin may have been a cold blooded killer but he was very consistant and had an excellent Church and State policy.
Yeah, that the state was the church.
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Anyhow, all of these evil european dictator we so revile actually helped their countries out quite a bit; Nazi Germany was considered a model success story until World War II...
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