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Conference taveng::bagels

Title:BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest
Notice:1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration
Moderator:SMURF::FENSTER
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1524
Total number of notes:18709

247.0. "Fuel for an old anti-Semitic fire" by CALLME::MR_TOPAZ () Thu Dec 11 1986 10:10

     
     I'm concerned that the cluster alias for the host system might
     fuel the old myth of the Jewish-Communist conspiracy.
     
     Is anyone else uneasy about MARX::BAGELS?  (Especially since 'bagel'
     coincidentally, or not-so-coincidentally, rhymes with 'Hegel'.)
     
     --Mr Topaz
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247.1Not worth worrying aboutYOUNG::YOUNGThu Dec 11 1986 10:5512
    I hadn't noticed it.  Now that it's been pointed out I think I will
    continue to not notice it.
    
    If someone is sufficiently anti-semitic that they look at what words
    rhyme with things that could suggest that Jews are up to some terrible
    conspiracy, then it's their problem not mine - I have better things
    to do than to spend my life avoiding words which might trigger them,
    and even if I were to spend the time they would find something else
    anyways.
    
    				Paul
    
247.2Just Joking (Ha Ha Ha....)TAVENG::CHAIMLe'ChaimThu Dec 11 1986 11:076
    I'm more concerned that people are going to start thinking that
    we're nothing but a bunch of Jokers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico.....)
    
    Just joking.......
    
    Cb.
247.3It's a plotGRAMPS::LISSESD&P ShrewsburyThu Dec 11 1986 12:0113
    Re .0
    
    Didn't you know? This IS a conspiracy. Funds for this operation
    were supplied by Iran through a Swiss bank account to the "Jewish
    World" Foundation. 
    
    			Fred
    
    8-)   8-)   8-)   8-)   8-)   8-)   8-)   8-)   8-)   8-)   
    
    PS - The Iatola claimed in a news conference this morning that
    he had no prior knowledge of the deal.
    
247.4Hadn't noticed actually...ZEPPO::MAHLERIn the basement? Go up and check! - M.C. EscherThu Dec 11 1986 13:1510
    Yes, it HAS been mentioned to me.  However,
    anyone who insists that it is of communist
    intention is of a small minority.

    It is of MARX brothers fame and in the future
    the cluster WILL be HARPO, ZEPPO, GROCHO.
    It'll make more sense then.


247.5that's John, not V.I.DECNA::GOLDSTEINDear Friends,Thu Dec 11 1986 16:038
    Hey, I want GUMMO too!
    
    And is JULIUS in use?  (Groucho's real name.)
    
    Of course, we could sneak in KARL and see who salutes.  (I thought
    of using the personal name "all hail Marx and Lennon", which is
    consistent with my other Notes p_n's, but some people would miss
    the pun.)
247.6REGENT::WOLFWed Dec 31 1986 08:412
    Funny until I read .0 I thought that MARX refered to the MArx brothers.
    Somebody just burst my bubble....oh pooh!
247.7ULTRA::ELLISDavid EllisWed Dec 31 1986 13:523
Re: .6:

.4 explains that the MARX:: cluster is indeed named after the brothers Marx.
247.8Keep 'Em Straight!VAXUUM::DYERSpot the DifferenceSun Jan 11 1987 12:113
{RE .3} - Wrong conspiracy.  It's the Illuminati.
 (-: :-)
  <_Jym_>