kype

[Victor Steinbok]

  My ex-wife is working with a bunch of very strangely bigoted people.
Last night, the employer threw a "party" for the monthly birthdays and
offered the employees a cake.

One of the other employees commented to my ex, "I'm going to kype that
cake from you."

This made no sense. "Skype?"

"No, kype. You know, like an insult to Jewish people."

"Jip? Kiek?" "Yeah, it's like 'jip' and 'kiek'."

Even replacing it with the only plausible "jew" still would make no
sense: "I'm going to jew that cake from you."

People say the strangest things...

     VS-)

PS: This followed an antisemitic comment from someone else earlier in
the week that also contained some odd phrasing. Perhaps it's the
rarefied air in the Rockies... not enough oxygen. Both comments were
made not only with the knowledge that she was Jewish, but /because/ of it.

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