Odds and Ends

July 13, 2008 - 7:45 AM by Benji

A couple of quick hits from the office….

  • I estimate that I’ve been to the airport at least six times in the last few weeks to welcome and send off tour groups from the States. Anyone know the abbreviation for Ben-Gurion Airport? ???”? (nahtbahg), or Namal Teufa Ben-Gurion. This of course means that should we ever open an airport for George Bush, we’ll call it ???’ ”?. That’s right. Nutjob. 

“In five minutes, we’ll be arriving at the Nutjob.”
(Can anyone think of who “nutcase” would be for?)

  • Reading a bio the other day, I came across the word “posthumous.” I must be turning Israeli because I read it as “post-chumus.” Or maybe I was just hungry.For those of you new to the Middle East, let me explain: if Heath Ledger wins an Oscar after his death for his performance in the upcoming Batman movie, it will be posthumous. When they bring you the little shot of Turkish coffee after you stuff yourself, that’s postchumus. And if the taxi driver starts driving without turning on the meter after you get into the car….well, he’s trying to screw you.

That’s all for now…more good times at What War Zone???

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Comments

2 Comments on Odds and Ends

  1. David-Joe on Mon, Jul 14th 2008 1:05 AM

    2. Such a “nutcase” is the best ally Israel has ever had in the White House. Wait until Obama [might] become Prez. – watch the Arab world applaud and wait to see just how the man from Chicago is towards Israel……

    The times may a changing and it is not going to be for the good [especially] of Israel or the US.

  2. sheldan on Thu, Jul 17th 2008 5:01 PM

    3. Benji,

    Unfortunately, I’d rather have had the “Nutjob” in the Presidency than his opponents in the last two elections. I think the pressure on Israel would have been intolerable if Senators Gore or Kerry would have been in office. As much as I have ambivalence about our current President’s governing from the right, he did at least walk the walk (until the last couple of years) on the Middle East…

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