When President Barack Obama met Queen Elizabeth II he brought a gift with him… So what would you get the Queen? Well Obama gave her a personalised iPod. (ABC News)

My first thought was – How Cool! And I immediately began thinking of which playlist Obama would give the Queen. Which artists would he think that she would like to listen to?

But my imagination was brutally crushed when I read that “A palace spokesman said the MP3 player was loaded with footage of the Queen’s 2007 visit to Washington and Virginia.”

How exciting. And in return the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh gave the Obamas signed portraits of themselves.

Yeah! The spirit of giving. It’s all about giving each other trash that you don’t want or what? Do you think Mauss deals with these kinds of gifts?

Update: Obama’s gift may have broken the law.