Racist Comedy?

James Baird jlbaird3 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 23 16:25:17 PDT 2001


--- Max Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> God you guys are young, aren't you. A hebe is a
> sheeny.
> And you are quite likely to have offended someone.
> We'll have to have a contest for ancient
> anti-semitic
> epithets.
>
> mbs
>
>
> What is a "hebe"? I've never heard that term
> before, other than as the
> name of the Greek Goddess that was the daughter of
> Zeus and Hera.
>
> I've been using the Greek Mythos to name internet
> firewalls, and may have
> unknowingly offended....
> Matt
>

I always thought it was spelled "heeb".

But I grew up in CT, so what do I know...

Jim Baird

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