I did a search on Zyklon B and discovered that the remarks were in extremely
bad taste..............Shockingly so............

Things definitely got out of hand.

Adam Puzerewski

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Terry's Anti Semitic Insults --

> At 10:24 AM 6/29/01 -0700, mike and shari wrote:
> >I took 'to the showers' as meaning, take a break or retire yourself.
Like the
> >pitcher who is told to 'hit the showers'.  I doubt very highly that
someone
> >here is going to make light of the Jewish holocaust, now, back to my
sunny
> >vanagon world......
> >
> >
> >Mike G.
>
> Same here, more or less, but a little different to me.  I didn't for one
> second see it as ANTI-SEMETIC.  In fact, I had to read several of Terry's
> messages to TRY to find the offending one.  Not that Terry is not
offensive
> -- because he clearly is.  : )  But did he mean "to the showers" as
> anti-Semitism?  It did not ring of that to me.  But then, who knows what
> lurks in the hearts of men.
> I thought it had something to do with some sort of joke about a bunch of
> "us" being in the chat room together, or some nonsense in typical jest,
and
> needing to go cleanse ourselves.  (Like HK would really be in there in
> there doing whatever -- that kind of nonsense, I mean)  Or, the "I'm outta
> here," or "you're outta here" kind of statement.  "Game over," so to
speak,
> or signifying the end of discussion.
> Don't be PO'd Steve.  A thousand points of light . . .
> My .03
> later babe
> hk
>