At the beginning of the Six Day War, my father told me: “Those stinkin’ Arabs don’t have a chance.” I asked him how he knew. He replied: “They don’t maintain their equipment. If somethings breaks down it’s “God’s Will”.

His service in the Navy during WWII left with two verbal quirks. He never used the word “Arab” without preceding it with word “stinkin’” and he never used the word “regulation” without preceding it with the word “horses**t”.