I'm being a bit vague.
I am coming at this from a slightly different viewpoint (although you would be quite correct in pointing out that it is no excuse) and I hadn't particularly wished to disclose it. Half my family and technically myself also, are Jewish. In fact there is no trace of any of my ancestors on my mother's side of the family beyond my great grandparents as they were all from Czechoslovakia & Poland and killed in the holocaust. In spite of this, I have never been particularly offended by Mykey and also deemed my offhand comment to be tame enough to warrant posting, at least in the name of low-brow humour. It has become clear that this is a little offensive to a few people so I shall refrain in future.
( Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 12:34, archived)