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Posts by Lyzko  

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Lyzko   
8 Aug 2019
Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Wisconsin cheddar's not bad, Johnny, I gotta admit. Don't forget though, without the Swedes, US farming might have looked
very different, and I mean, cultivating those dairy products we both like so much:-)
Lyzko   
8 Aug 2019
Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Couldn't begin to imagine how in the world one could "outsource" cheese anyway! However, that's encouraging to know, thanks jon:-)
Does the same apply to Stilton and local varieties of port as well? Bass Ale still made in the UK?
Lyzko   
7 Aug 2019
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Liberals are always and have always been easy targets for haters of all species, in essence, because the Left has refused to submit to established convention which targets those by less "able", shall we say, by labeling, bad-mouthing, and bullying!

Once it was conventional to label slower pupils as "retarded" and to call them nasty names because they couldn't defend themselves. It was convention, until the "liberalization" of US textbooks to claim that white men alone discovered America, they and they alone, who made it the great country which it later became. Well, the Native Americans predated even St. Brendan and later the Vikings to our shores. The whites won the Revolution, and yet who but the Left had the courage to bring up the likes of Crispus Attucks who helped score a needed victory in the Boston Massacre? Who but the hated Libitards and "Snow-flakes" brought to the fore that it was the Chinese who helped build our railroads, unsung heroes that they were? Sure, there were problems with many minority groups, and yet if you were part of the disen-franchised masses, of course you'd want somebody to speak up on your behalf, and don't lie, saying you wouldn't, since nobody would believe you anyway.
Lyzko   
7 Aug 2019
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Don't forget though that the Soviets hated the Nazis about as much as the Poles, not to mention the Jews!
It was therefore to the Russians' best self interest that Hitler should be defeated, sooner instead of later:-)
Lyzko   
7 Aug 2019
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

"....since the liberation of Poland from the Germans was already almost a fait accompli....."

Really, Rich? Seems you're privy to certain primary source documents over which the rest of us mere mortals can merely salivate:-) Do tell, old boy!
Lyzko   
6 Aug 2019
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

The "primary", if not the sole, objective of the Warsaw Uprising, was naturally to kick Hitler's buttuski to Kingdom come!
They nearly succeeded. Oh, there were some malingerers in the ranks, I'm sure, but on the whole, the Poles (both Jew
and gentile) stuck to their guns, literally, and fought with their last ounce of blood.
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2019
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

So curious for me to read in certain posts here that in some circles, the Germans come off smelling better than the Russians who are are cast as the perennial "enemy", even while liberating your countries from Nazism.
Lyzko   
28 Jul 2019
Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Interesting. The Germans know him as the great Nueremberg sculptor Veit Stoss.
Guess it's like that Kopernikus vs. Copernick debate all over again:-) You guys claim him for Poland because technically he was born in Torun, the Germans claim him for Germany, since the German name for his home town is/was Thorn.
Lyzko   
27 Jul 2019
USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Yes, that was the series! It prompted one reviewer unfortunately to remark, that it seemed as though
the new breed of TV detectives all had some handicap, in the case of Columbo, it was his eyesight, in the case of Banaczek,
his being Polish was enough of a handicapLOL

This jibe wasn't funny back then, and it isn't funny now either.
Lyzko   
26 Jul 2019
USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Ted Knight simply translated the Polish word for his last name into English:-)
He was though somewhat sensitive regarding 'Polish jokes'.
Once on Carson way back in the '80's, he appeared on the show alongside Buddy Hackett,
who typically made some sort of gaff and asked the show's host if he could tell this great
Polish joke he'd just heard, to which Ted Knight sharply retorted (although keeping up a
winning smile and calm), "Why don't you tell it in Polish?"

Buddy Hackett looked kind of chagrinned and ended up changing the subject.
Lyzko   
24 Jul 2019
USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

In that case, it must be an Italian, 'cuz Clyde Barrow and Dillinger had more W.A.S.P.Y along with ever so slightly Native American features.

If the photo's of a Mafioso, I'm stumped, sorry!

@That's right, Pawian.

I also saw that film about Bugsy Siegel and boy was he a bad one! His boys would work a guy over just like John Gotti or the like, no difference.

He even attended synagogue in a swanky Miami Beach temple. Similar to, for example, Vinnie Azzaro, wearing a cross and going
to church on Sunday.
Lyzko   
24 Jul 2019
USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Dutch Schulz (nee Arthur Flegenheimer), I think.
See, paw? The US had plenty of Jewish gangster types. Add his name to Bugsy Siegel, Louis Lepke (and Gurrah) plus a number of others.

Don't see what he has to do with Polish-Americans though.
Lyzko   
24 Jul 2019
Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

I mean that he's a new breed of actor, so nearly as I can tell. If you compare him with
Zbigniew Cybulski, Leon Niemczyk, Andrzej Lapicki, going back even further to Danuta Szaflarska,
he's more intense instinct rather than charm, almost a Polish James Dean, a sort of Rebel Without
A Clue (whoops, "Clause" or was that "Cause"LOL).

Understand what I'm saying? Caught some of "Jedwabne" on YouTube and several others films
he's played in and this is simply my own impression.

Just curious that's all what you think about him as a film performer:-)
Lyzko   
24 Jul 2019
USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Czolgosz chcial zostac kandydatem. Leon Czolgosz wanted to be a candidate for US president.

W 1938r. ktokolwiek sprobowal zabic Roosevelt'a, ale on wypadkowo zastrzelal burmistrza Chicago Antona Czermaka!
Teraz zrozumiales, pawian?