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| Kings to “Shut up.” Ringtone run away hit ! | |||||
| By Shaun Zelber, November 20th, 2007 :: News & Events | |||||
King says “shut up”. The king of Spain’s recent undiplomatic outburst at the Venezuelan president has become a ringtone hit across Spain. An estimated 500,000 people have downloaded the insult featuring the words “Why don’t you shut up?”, generating a reported 1.5m euros ($2m). King Juan Carlos asked Hugo Chavez to “shut up” at a summit in Chile last week after the president said Spain’s ex-PM Jose Maria Aznar was a “fascist”. In Venezuela, a group of students who oppose Mr Chavez’s government have also been downloading the ringtone, a US newspaper reported. “It’s a form of protest,” a 21-year-old student in Caracas told the Miami Herald. “It’s something that a lot of people would like to tell the president.” Here for you all is the outburst : Join MobilOpen – the off deck mobile internet group : News, networking, cooperation… | |||||
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