Since Silvio Berlusconi lost the elections last year, politics has become B-O-R-I-N-G. The new Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, is a walking yawn - as opposed to ol' Silvio, who was a boisterous, ridiculous, shady, billionaire madman who cracked jokes about gays and AIDS and the Holocaust. Even though he's out of office, Italians recently got a chance to enjoy some more Berlusconi-banter…Berlusconi was at a TV awards ceremony in Milan and unleashed some amazingly sleazy pick-up lines on a few of the scantily clad ladies in the auditorium. His wife, Veronica Lario, took offence and wrote an open letter to a newspaper asking for an apology. He replied the day after with another open letter stating that he was sorry and that his wife's dignity is precious to him.This is fake, but not far from the truth:Our favourite Berlusconi story was when, to convince the EU to move the food safety body to Parma, he said he was going to "dust off" his "English-language playboy arts" with Finnish President Tarja Halonen. This caused a diplomatic scandal between Italy and Finland. Berlusconi later retracted by saying that "anyone who had seen a picture of Halonen must have been aware that he had been joking."TIM SMALL