Call Him "Papi" (Berlusconi's Pictures Have the Web Joking)

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The story of Silvio Berlusconi's divorce made the news a couple of days ago in Italy, and it is not going to end quickly. But a small and funny part of the story lies in a handful of pictures the Italian PM has exhibited to show that a visit to an 18 year old "daughter of a friend" to celebrate her birthday, a week ago, was nothing private or embarrassing.

Thing is, the pictures are very strange, with Berlusconi looking like a cardboard image, and a suspect quality about them. So the italian web has been joking the whole day about details in every picture (a hand on Berlusconi shoulder has apparently six fingers, he looks taller than he is, his smile is exactly the same in every picture) and the debate was later featured on news websites.Later in the night Berlusconi repeated on tv the pictures are true (they are, actually) and his wife's desire to divorce has been fuelled by lies about him told by leftist newspapers: nothing happened between him and the teenager (who told in an interview she calls him "papi," a nice word for "daddy") and it is not true that his party wanted to elect to the European parliament some sexy TV showgirls.

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