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from: Robert E Starr JR
date: 2006-09-24 18:08:00
subject: Re: Can You BELIEVE This?

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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:45:50 -0400, "Mac Breck"
> wrote:
>
>>> I _have_ heard people say "jewed him down on the
price" and think it's
>>> equally as fine as some of you seem to think of this inappropriate
>>phrase.
>>
>>I hear that all the time.  Doesn't bother me, but that doesn't mean I'd
>>say it in front of a Jew. 
>
>And how do you know if you are in front of a Jew? Jews aren't required
>to wear the yellow Star of David anymore.

Because I don't have an obviously Jewish surname (it's actually from
"Hillel" rather than those things you climb), I've heard more than a
few anti-Semitic comments from people who didn't know I was part
Jewish. At one job, the department secretary handed me a sheet of "Jew
jokes." Really got her on my good side, I tell ya . . .

-- 
Josh

[Truly] I say to you, [...] angel [...] power will be able to see that [...]
these to whom [...] holy generations [...]. After Jesus said this, he departed.

- The Gospel of Judas
                                                            
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