Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 19:39:39 -0500 From: Natalie Maynor Subject: Re: Bounced Mail >>Tim, what does the Hill Street Blues cop's Jewishness have to do with his use >>of euphemistic epithets? > > Natalie, Nothing in particular -- just like his height, the degree > of his articulateness, his eating habits, his profession, and his > grunting. I was drawing on my mental image of the character to > identify him to readers. His ethnicity stands out as part of his > identity. Why do you ask? I didn't. Somebody else did. I was simply forwarding mail that bounced to me as listowner. --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)