Eeeexcellent! |
But the real kicker, the coup de grace of this new misadventure, is the name she has chosen for her new party:
The Movement
Her political adversaries are stunned. Where, oh where, to begin? The possibilities are endless! Look on the Israeli news sites - the talkbackers are having an absolute field day. It's open season on toilet humor!
I'm sure her focus groups had something else in mind when they came up with this name. But there was clearly a lot of groupthink at work here from the yes-men with whom she has surrounded herself. Didn't even one of them think of the other connotations of the word? And yes, before you ask, it's the same idiomatic expression in Hebrew: תנועת מעיים is a bowel movement.
I, for one, was literally ROTFL today, like I haven't been in months. Maybe years. Tzipi Livni, you have made so many people happy today. Your movement has brought relief to the entire country - albeit of the comic variety. Today you have justified your existence on this planet. We love you!
EDIT: After consulting with my Hebrew speaking friends, it seems that while תנועת מעיים is correctly translated as a bowel movement, the term תנועה is not colloquially used to describe what we Anglos call a "movement", but rather to describe an obscene hand gesture. And the humorists have already jumped on the pun. Just as funny.
EDIT: After consulting with my Hebrew speaking friends, it seems that while תנועת מעיים is correctly translated as a bowel movement, the term תנועה is not colloquially used to describe what we Anglos call a "movement", but rather to describe an obscene hand gesture. And the humorists have already jumped on the pun. Just as funny.
1 comment:
הצנועה would be a better joke.
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