In 1977 I sailed a sailboat back from England. We stopped in Lisbon about Christmas time and had a big party on a British boat tied up near us. We had people from quite a few countries on board to include a bunch of Poles. We sang Christmas Carols in different languages that night. About 3 in the morning one of the Poles asked the question, “How many Russians does it take to change a light bulb”. Things sort of went down hill from that point.
“When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere,” Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system’s economic collapse.
In 1982, an American, a Russian, and a Pole were employed at a factory in Poland. One day, the Polish worker showed up for work two hours late. "Sorry, guys," he said. "I had to stand in line for a ham."
"What's a ham?" asked the Russian, while the American inquired, "what's a line?"
"Four children he asked? How come there are eight here?"
Maybe some about your mother... ?