kype

[Jonathan Lighter]

Another law firm: Cheatum, Glommit, Kiper & Bogart.

JL

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 10/23/2010 04:10 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >My ex-wife is working with a bunch of very strangely bigoted people.
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> Don't you mean "strange bigoted people"?  :-)
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> >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."
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> "Jew" (verb) makes sense.  From the OED:  "To cheat or overreach, in
> the way attributed to Jewish traders or usurers."  Here without
> reference to the context of usurous or cheating commercial
> transactions, merely "cheat" as to deprive of in an underhanded
> way.  More like "glom".  After which he would bogart it.
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> Joel
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