When someone would come up to the late US Sen. Edmund Muskie (Marciszewski) and say: "Hey senator, have you heard the latest Polish joke?" He sould shoot back: "See that brown spot on the tip of my shoe? That's from kicking the arseholes of idiots who tell me Polish jokes!"
Another retort: Why are Polish jokes so short? So the idiots that tell them can remember them.
You can also reply with a quip against the joke-teller's nationality: What do you get when you cross a......... (Swede, Russian, Englishman, German, Italian, Jew, Negro, Hungarian, Frenchmen, etc.) wtih an ape? -- A retarded ape!
And finally: How many Poles does it take to change the world: THREE -- an electrician from Gdańsk, a cardinal from Kraków and a political scientist from the US (Brzeziński).
quote=Switezianka] Why combat "Polack" jokes? These are just jokes.[/quote]
No they are not. Some people in the US actually believe the negative stereotypes. My gran and mom got crap for being polish. My grandfather did not go to my parents' wedding because she was a pollack and catholic. OK???? I am the 1st generation who has not gotten outright crap for being polish. However, I did meet an educated female , mind you drunk , who told me i could not be polish because they are scum of the earth. Everyone sat there in horror not quite knowing what to say. My friend kept mouthing be the bigger person... she was too drunk to fight anyway.....
And of course you get the polish jokes but you don't see signs like my grandma did no polish allowed or hired - that's how it was in the old days over here.
Now I have found my relatives in Poland- they are all professionals and highly educated. Poland has a higher literacy rate than the USA. Sticks and stones.....
Exactly... and anyone who tells these kind of jokes just show themselves up to be a knob. There's no need to combat them or prepare any (not particularly in the cases above) come-backs.
And finally: How many Poles does it take to change the world: THREE -- an electrician from Gdańsk, a cardinal from Kraków and a political scientist from the US (Brzeziński).
and then you wonder why? this thread is a rolling pollack joke. :D
and here is one for you all:
How do you sink a Polish battleship? Put it in water.
Polish Jokes have been around for a very long time. Some people find them offensive, some find them funny, some don't. The thing is, most of these jokes can be applied to practically any race, color, creed, or individual.
I've told this one b4. A German, a Frenchman, a Dutchman and a Pole were caught as POW's in Iraq. Facing a firing squad, they were told that all they had to do was to say an element and they'd be set free.
The German stepped up, 'water'. He was set on his way
The Frenchman stepped up, 'air'. He also walked
The Dutchman strolled forward, 'earth'. He marched away
I hate it when people make jokes on the Polish people why are they so picked on I dont understand I see nothing dumb about them at all I do hope people see them as smart people.
I am advocating a PADL or Polish Anti-Defamation League...I am also advocating the building of a powerful Polish lobby in the US so that Poland may get billiomns each year to further her development, and to aid in her defense, because Poland is a persecuted nation 'surrounded by enemies who want to see her people driven into the Baltic'!...Any 'anti-Polonia' jokes, stories or criticisms of Poles by non-Poles will be considered 'hate speech', and subject to criminal prosecution.
