6:45 AM I woke up and went to Jpost.com.
6:49 AM I went to NYTimes.com.
6:51 AM I turned on the dood. This is of far greater importance to me than anything the traditional media outlets are covering.
6:52 AM I read other sites.
Do you feel caught up on the conflict? Live blogging rules.
Ok, this is the first image result when I Googled “live blogging”.Do we think this was PhotoShopped?
In other news, this happened at work yesterday:
(co-worker’s phone rings repeatedly)
“Kol hatelefonim, b’IMA sheli!”
How an Israeli would translate it: “All these phone calls, SERIOUSLY!”
How I would translate it: All the telephones are in my mother!
Am I missing something about this language?
(Yep, we’re still #1 in Google for “b’ima sheli.” Why this isn’t being covered on Sky News right now is beyond me.)
Check out our friend Jack for a round-up of Gaza-related posts in the blogosphere.
Very cool, not quite Israellycool, but cool nonetheless. I shall have to remind Jameel to send you a waffle plate.
Whoa – we just took a dangerous step here. Benji linked Jack, and Jack linked Benji. Doesn’t that create a black hole that can destroy the universe???!!! Kinda like the Hadron Supercollider thingamajig, but on the internet.
-Dave
All these telephones are WITH my mother, and she keeps calling?
Maybe it would help if we knew the shoresh of “b’ima sheli”…
or not
On the other hand, perhaps we should talk a little walk in Vernacular-land in English and ask ourselves what these mean?
“What a load of hooey!”
“Jesus Christ on a crutch!” (must have been after the cross)
“Jesus H. Christ!” (and the H. stands for what? Harold?)
“Jimini Christmas!”
“I need one of those doo-hickies/whatchamacallits/
thingamajigs.”
“What the fu..?” (because that will clarify the topic…)
“Lord (Lawd) have mercy!” and “Glory be!”
“My stars/goodness!”
“Don’t get your panties in a bunch.”
And that’s just off the top of my head.
Dave,
Sometimes you have to cross the lines, it is the only way to kill the ghosts.
Well, the war is in some places and in the rest of the country, the drink coffee, as usual.
At least they havent’ told us to fill the bathtubs. Years ago, we were told to do it during wars and emergencies. What a waste of water.
It took you six minutes to turn on your dood?
(Okay, that just sounds wrong!)
Ilana, what is hooey exactly? That response cracked me up.
Baila, maybe it was 3. I’m not really coherent at that hour. Or this hour. I really need to be asleep.