Long before he was made UK's new foreign secretary, Boris Johnson made a name for himself around the world - with a spew of colourful insults against important people.
Sample this: He called US president Barrack Obama half-Kenyan, he compared Hillary Clinton to a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital and he wrote a limerick on the Turkish president having a carnal affair with a goat.
The language is stronger than that of his blonde tousle-haired lookalike across the Atlantic, Donald Trump, whom he once accused of "stupefying ignorance."
Here's an anthology - collated from British and American media reports - of Johnson's famous insults.
Hillary Clinton
In November 2007, he supported Hillary Clinton's bid for presidency with these strange lines in his column:"She's got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital." Clinton, he said, had carried out the job of First Lady like "Lady Macbeth, stamping her heel, bawling out subordinates and frisbeeing ashtrays at her erring husband."
Barack Obama
Johnson was one of the leading voices of the successful Brexit campaign. And he took on everybody on the other side of the argument, including Obama.
Writing in The Sun tabloid, Johnson called Obama a "part-Kenyan president" — referring to the birth country of Obama's father — and said the president had an "ancestral dislike of the British empire."
He also said Obama's views on the EU were "incoherent ... inconsistent and ... downright hypocritical."
Donald Trump
Much of the civilised world loved it when Johnson took aim at Trump for suggesting that Muslim-dominated regions of London were out of bounds for police.
He said Trump was "clearly out of his mind" and that his "ill-informed comments are complete and utter nonsense."
He accused the Republican of "stupefying ignorance" for suggesting immigration had created "no-go" areas of London.
"I would invite him to come and see the whole of London … except that I wouldn't want to expose Londoners to any risk of meeting Donald Trump," he said. "The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump."
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Boris Johnson won a £1,000 prize in May for penning a rude poem about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, having sex with a goat. His limerick was published by the Spectator as a rebuff to Erdoğan's efforts to prosecute a German comedian's offensive poem.
Israel
Johnson's visit to the occupied Palestinian territories was curtailed in 2015 because of protests over a series of strong pro-Israel remarks. They included telling an audience in Tel Aviv that a trade boycott of Israeli goods was "completely crazy" and supported by "corduroy-jacketed, snaggletoothed, lefty academics in the UK".
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