In Liverpool, 1,600 men queued to volunteer on the day the recruiting office opened.
Visitors queued for hours in 2007 to go on his giant slides which shot them from the top level to the ground floor of Tate Modern's enormous Turbine Hall.
The speech was preceded by a carnival-like atmosphere: hundreds queued happily outside in the heat, while others, without tickets, staked out with cameras the campus roundabout Obama's advance team reportedly wanted removed, for (ultimately unrealised) fears the Cadillac he travels in – the Beast – would fail to negotiate it.
8 August MARINA ABRAMOVIC "Marina recently did this huge piece at Moma, New York where she sat in the gallery for 700 hours and people queued up to sit one to one and look at her.
Droves of authors have queued up to protest against the closure of libraries.
Speaking to a rapturous audience of some 3,000 delegates in Glasgow, many of whom had queued for two hours to hear her, she said: "If Labour fails to make that commitment, the only conclusion people will draw is that Labour would rather have the Tories back in power than work with the SNP.
The guy who queued overnight got a ticket, so should I say to him he can't have a ticket?
Those who had queued just to sample the atmosphere said they felt they had to be there.
In February, he began a project called #IAMSORRY, during which the alleged assault occurred, in which hundreds of people queued outside a Los Angeles gallery for a one-to-one encounter with him.
Last Saturday hundreds of nostalgics queued up to buy seats, turf and other memorabilia from the "Eighth Wonder of the World" at a sale and auction.
But people queued to lay bouquets at the bronze statues of the former leaders.
