Shoe, fly

Laura Bush seems to be the only one who is upset about her heel of a husband's close call with a loafer.

Latin American leaders in Brazil laughed.

"Please, nobody take off your shoes," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva joked to reporters at the start of a news conference.

Australians laughed.

In Saudi Arabia, they did more than laugh. Someone offered $10 million for the shoe seen around the world. The shoes have become a symbol of protest across the Middle East.

Internet gamers laughed. Within hours internet games sprouted up that spoofed the incident.

And thanks to the late night comics, we all laughed.

Even George Bush tried to laugh it off....not realizing that he was the joke.

Laura Bush seemed to be the only one who took offense.

"As a wife, I saw this as an assault, and that's what it was," she told USA TODAY during an interview Thursday at the White House. "And so I didn't laugh it off like he did."

Put a sock in it. It was funny.