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Subject:Re: Words to avoid, was: Apology for "Jap" comment
From:Frank Miller
Date:Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:35:08 -0500

Mike,
My Dad came over on the boat from Yugoslavia so even though we didn't have
one of those good Hunkie names that are mostly consonants, we still
qualified. Actually no hunkie I ever knew considered it a slur.
Frank

At 09:28 AM 12/17/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Me too, and I'm a Russian 'Miller' [it's just that I forgot the hunkie
>equivalent for Russian-American, I'm pretty sure there is one]
>
>Mike
>'85 Westy [Runkie?]
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Frank Miller <fmiller01@SPRYNET.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:12 AM
>Subject: Re: Words to avoid, was: Apology for "Jap" comment
>
>
>> Now I'm offended, you forgot us "Hunkies" or for us Pittsburghers'
>"Mill-Hunk"
>> :)
>> Frank Miller
>>
>>
>
>
>
Frank Miller

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