31 October 2014

John Kerry - translated into Hebrew


A fairly interesting NYT article that offers a titillating glimpse into the inner works of the White House in particular and the current administration in general - warmly recommended. The point of this post, however, focuses on a quite innocuous (well, almost) passage of the article:
White House officials joke that he [Kerry] is like the astronaut played by Sandra Bullock in the movie “Gravity,” somersaulting through space, untethered from the White House.
I bet the author of that article, while it refers to Israel a few times, doesn't know the second meaning of the word "astronaut" in Hebrew. In Israeli slang "astronaut" means somebody untethered not only physically, but also mentally. In short, someone who is not totally at home...cooking on another planet... having too many birds on his antenna... well, you know what I mean.

Oh well, at least I am not an anonymous official of the White House...

8 comments:

Dick Stanley said...

Lurch is a real space cadet---the American slang version of the Israeli astronaut. But I question whether he is untethered from the White House. And particularly because the NYTimes reports it. They are Obama's No.1 cheerleaders and I think Kerry is doing exactly what the boss wants.

Dick Stanley said...

CNN is becoming more like MSNBC every day. So full of wackos begging for an audience that very few can stomach them for long. If non-leftists (of whatever stripe) stopped paying attention and writing about them, hardly anyone would know anything about them at all.

Dick Stanley said...

Evolution is on the move, cleaning up the planet of the unfit.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I suspect that the whole topic of Kerry being untethered stems from the situation where Obama keeps him at arm's length, in case he will need another scapegoat, thankfully there are quite a few possibilities where such situation might (or will) materialize.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, it looks like scandalous behavior wins any time. Remember, there is no such thing as bad publicity, and this rule seems to expand to TV personalities as well.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yeah, I only wish they would have chosen some remote and isolated location to to all that cleaning.

David Sigeti said...

Excellent!

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Thanks.