RinkWorks: Stupid Emails: Jews To Jaws

394. Jews To Jaws

To:  sam@rinkworks.com
Subject:  Sentences - Pangrams - NEW  ITEM with 59 letters : Request that you change one letter . RSVP, SA
Date:  Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:12:37 -0800 (PST)

Please change one letter in the 8th word of this
sentence, that is, the letter e to an a - so that the
word  "jews " becomes    " jaws ".

Without this change the present text could be viewed
by some people as antisemitic.

The sentence will make as much sense as some of the
other examples.

You will still have 3 "e"s and 8 "a"s instead of 7 "a"

RSVP

Thank you

From:  The Rink <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject:  Re: Sentences - Pangrams - NEW  ITEM with 59 letters : Request that you change one letter . RSVP, SA
Date:  Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:44:54 -0500

If it is viewed that way by anyone, it is viewed that way by woefully
hypersensitive people with fanatical imaginations.  The sentence is a
nonsense phrase, utterly inoffensive.  Anybody who wastes his time complaining
about something this innocuous is doing a great disservice to his own cause
by distracting people from REAL prejudice and bigotry out there in the world.

What happens when you start crying "Wolf!" at every turn?  People stop
listening when there's a real wolf.  Race relations are not going to be helped
by eliminating every single innocent reference to any ethnic group just to
guard against some wacko getting all offended.  People like this will find
things to be offended by no matter what measures you take anyway.

The sentence he wanted changed was, "While Suez sailors wax parquet decks, Afghan Jews vomit jauntily abaft." It appears in the Pangrams section on "Fun With Words." A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.