kype

[Paul Frank]

See kipe, DARE, vol. 3, p. 227.

Paul

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On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Â 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...
>
> Â  Â  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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