[katana]

All of those jokes are interchangeable for different groups in different countries and territories. Irish jokes in Australia, Newfoundlanders (”Newfies”) in Canada, Cajuns (”Coonasses”) in Louisiana, etc. How they ever got applied to the nation that produced Copernicus, Chopin, and John Paul II may be a mystery, but the jokes are universal.

[Magnum44]

And people let the jokes run off their backs back then, not go cry to HR or pull the victim card. I am reminded of the Dirty Harry scene:

De Georgio: Harry hates everybody. Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, N*****s, Honkies, Chinks, you name it.

Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?

De Georgio: Ask him.

Harry Callahan: Especially Spics.

Today, those lines would lead to Watts riots.

[Boogieman]

“How they ever got applied to the nation that produced Copernicus, Chopin, and John Paul II may be a mystery, but the jokes are universal.”

Well, living in Chicago where we get the most Polish immigrants I think I can speculate. I don’t think we tend to get the cream of their society over here, at least not in the majority. Basically, a lot of them are what other Poles would basically call “hillbillies”, and when they come over here they are not sophisticated at all and the results can be hilarious.

[arrogantsob]

Not to mention Paderewski.