Nahh. Everyone knew his "Archie Bunkerness" well, so it was more or less overlooked. I tried not to goad him for the most part, as when I did things would usually end up with him getting into a verbal battle with someone else.
In fairness to him, he mellowed out a lot in his later years. Not sure if it was due to the dementia or him just not caring. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > HA! Bet that made for some awkward silences at family gatherings... > -Curt > > > From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 8:35 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] the thug in chief > > As my now deceased father in law used to say about any racial or ethnic group > other than his own, "You know how "those people" are." > > My response, often drawing daggers from the wife across the room: "No, > Richard, I don't know how "those people" are. Please tell me." > > Hee. > > Bless his heart. He was the product of another era, for sure. > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:25 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> My folks were here for Christmas and my dad was expounding on how "Theres no >> such thing as a good Syrian, they're all rotten right to the core." >> So I replied "What about Harvey's son in-law, isn't he Syrian? Didn't you >> say he was one of the finest young men you had ever met?" >> To which he replied "Well, I suppose but he's hardly Syrian." Meaning he'd >> been here 20 years. As we went on it turns out my dad knows LOTS of Syrians >> he likes... >> -Curt >> >> >> From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 7:39 AM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] the thug in chief >> >> Mental health for my brother in law, who is a hard core Fox News watcher. >> >> He told the wife last night that there are already 30+ ISIS terrorist >> training facilities in the US and over 3,000 terrorists in the US ready to >> wreak havoc on us. >> >> Uh, right. >> >> And he's got a small arsenal of guns, too. That scares me. >> >> Dan >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
