While watching Israeli news television today...

[arib]

The dialogue went something like this:

"blah blah, disengagement, blah, blah, shooting, blah blah disengagement. Up next, a penguin has joined the Norwegian military!"

No, this isn't me losing bits of my Hebrew, it's a penguin.

Comments

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

*insert some inane comment about the norwegian military preferring Linux*

*giggle*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

For some reason, that reminds me of this:

In 1976, Entebbe's airport was the site of a raid by Israeli commandos who freed 103 Israeli hostages from a plane hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. Eleven Ugandan warplanes and much of the airport were destroyed in the raid. The city has noteworthy botanical gardens and research institutions.

I found it yesterday at the end of the article here: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/E/Entebbe.asp

(Near the tail end of a very roundabout conversation yesterday, I was telling a coworker about the raid on Entebbe. While googling to find her a good source on the whole story, I stumbled across this one.)

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

gnomi, that's terrific!

(Also - it took me a moment to identify the quote in our icon-avatar-picture thingie. Classic!)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, celli was celebrating the joy that is the movie "Clue," and a bunch of us posted our favorite quotes. Celli made a bunch of icons of them, and I snatched the one for the quote that I'd contributed.

[cheshyre]

Dear Gd, You're Right!

Not that I ever doubted you, but I had to see the story for myself.

[sorek.livejournal.com]

See if this was a local news broadcast it would be blah blah pullout blah blah shooting blah blah WEATHER!!!!! blah blag SPORTS!!!! blah blah And for our final story, a penguin has joined the Norwegian military!" the weather and sports helps separate the heavy stories from the fluff :)

Of course with channel 7 news even the heavy stories are fluff so maybe it doesn't help that much.

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Har! I love it!