Please don't say, "There was a Nip in the air!"

Had dinner with an ancient friend of mine (I think we met in 1985). Our friendship was not continuous because there was a time when he came into a large inheritance and his then-husband--a Franciscan priest--was jealous of his having any friendships outside their primary relationship. The priest was also a big boozer and my ancient friend had the same addiction/affliction. We lost touch. But, when their relationship ended and the priest sero-converted to HIV+ and my friend had realized that his inheritance had been frittered away (or stolen), he moved back to the city and made a fearless inventory and righted all wrongs by making amends. Guess I was on the list.
Anyway, over dinner the other night he had derided to try his hand at humor. "Do you know what the weather report was for December 7th, 1941, he had asked?" "No," I replied, "what?" "Balmy! With a little Nip in the air."
I'm not a big fan of racial humor. Even less of a fan when the race is mentioned by a disparaging term. I told him it wasn't too P.C. and I think he got the hint.
Did he?
A late friend of mine (whom the ancient friend also knew as we became acquainted around the same time) was a Jewish woman who had been married to an Italian Jew. Most people assumed since she had an Italian last name that she was Italian and that they could tell her some Jewish jokes. She had worse tales than I. She was also of the same mind that she didn't want to hear nasty racial jokes. As she was often wont to point out, "If someone can say, 'N*gg*r,' you know that 'kike' isn't going to be too far behind." I try not to test the waters.
Tonight I am meeting up with a friend who has the same first name as I. Ours is an unusual name. I found him on FACEBOOK while doing a name search. I told him I was looking for a friend with the same first name as mine. He agreed to friend me. Freaky thing about that though is that we do have a lot of interests in common. In addition, we take an interest in what the other does and we are generally supportive of the passions that we enjoy. Funny how that sometimes happens.