Some Polish jokes just write themselves
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Took a while to get this remark....
When I was a lad, this would have been considered a ‘dumb pollock joke’ as they were the ‘butt’ of everything.
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When the Germans took over Poland in 1939, how come it was so easy??
“They marched in backwards and everyone thought they were leaving”
I am not Polish but must have had some ‘sympathy’ over the stupid jokes because I would say ‘Do you speak Polish’? and with the no answer, -”well how does it feel being the dumbest person in Warsaw”?....
People like to forget that it was mostly Poles that cracked the enigma code but that didn’t fit into the ‘profile’
I was born in 1947, and I remember when Polish jokes were the “craze.” At the time I didn’t understand why Polish people were the brunt of the jokes, and of course the Italians, Irish, Blacks, etc., were included in stupid jokes that were passed around. Now that I’m older, I’ve learned what the Polish people went through under the Nazis, and the Russians. By the way, I visited Bletchley Park on a trip to England in 2007. That was before they’d decided to “save” it and preserve it for posterity. It was still a very interesting visit despite the dilapidated condition of the place. The day I was there, a little, old lady who had worked at Bletchley was visiting, and we stopped to listen to her talk about her time there. She was living in Sheffield when she was working there. She was asked about the movie “Enigma” that had come out in 2001, and she said it was a bunch of “rubbish.”