"Hi there!" Or, as the Spanish say "!Ola ere-thay" ... or something.
The confusion was understandable, as the real prime minister (pictured below) bears an all-too striking resemblance to Rowan Atkinson's character.
The amazingly Bean-like Spanish PM farts to amuse a European dignitary
According to nerds, a basic security hole involving cross-site scripting allowed the hacker to play the joke. "The attack saw someone take advantage of a weakness in the so-called XSS code," said 47-year-old dweeb Coleman Dinkworth from his mom's basement.
Mr. Dinkworth from his Match.com photo
The prank is a something of a stumble for the Spaniards, as the recession-scarred country is trying to use the six-month office as a platform to portray a positive image. If that ploy fails, Zapatero says, he is prepared to follow the lead of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and dump his wife for a "la esposa caliente" (hot wife) or Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's more drastic strategy of sleeping with underage whores.
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