Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] Explanation please!
From: jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)
Date: Thu Jan 4 13:44:56 2007

Sure...goyim!

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of GeeBee
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:38 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Explanation please!

Any chance you could tell us who you bank with :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul@comcast.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Explanation please!


> OK, here's the explanation:
> 
> Several years ago I wanted to sign up for the New York Times online.  That
> required me to select a user name, one that I could easily remember.
Well,
> tried my name--that was taken.  So was first name, last name, and
virtually
> every clever moniker I could imagine.  I thought, what's the one thing
that
> probably wouldn't be selected by the New York Times' readers, many (if not
> the majority) of whom are Jewish.  I selected "goyim", which is a Yiddish
> term meaning non-Jews.  Instantly, the password was accepted.
> 
> Since then, I've used "goyim" as the log-in name for many websites.  Like
my
> experience with the Times, it's almost never taken, and I can easily
> remember it!
> 
> So there you are!
> 
> Best,
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Victor
> Rubin
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:06 PM
> To: lug
> Subject: [Leica] Explanation please!
> 
> I was just about to order the yearbook when I noticed the heading of the
> "bookstore": Please explain the meaning and what it is doing there??
vroger
> 
> http://www.blurb.com/user/goyim
> 
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