[Elpasser]

Ahem. If you're going to tell tacky ethnic jokes, they're "Poles," not "Polacks." Calling someone a Polack is derogatory -- the functional equivalent of "Nigg*r."

Now you know.

I thought this kind of humor had long ago gone the way of All in the Family and Archie Bunker.

[redrock]

Actually...I was always told by Stan...(and by my Aunt who was from Poland)...that 'Polak' is how you say it in Poland.

The people in Poland don't seem to mind the word....here's a website from one of their Companies....POLAK

My Polish is very rudamentary....but it seems to have something to do with Babies.

redrock

[ONETWOONE]

So true and my stepdad, a proud WW2 Army Air Corp vet, passed away this past Veteran's Day. And that's no joking matter.

[USAFJeeper]

I was born a redneck and raised in Cajun Country. I love both of those kinda jokes. Lighten up, you are sounding like a liberal.

Boudreaux dies and goes to hell. The devil wants to make him miserable so he turns up the heat and goes to Boudreaux's room and asks how he likes it there. Boudreaux says "Oh mais cher, it feels like a good southern day in June." The devil gets mad and turns up the heat even more. He goes back and asks Boudreaux how do he likes it now. Boudreaux says "Oh mais cher, it feels like a good southern day in July." The devil's really mad now and goes back and turns the thermostat all the way to COLD (Freezing Cold!!). He goes back to Boudreaux, who now has icicles hanging off his moustache, and asks him how he likes it now. Boudreaux says, "I don't know mais cher, but I bleave da saints done won dem a Superbowl.

[John O]

Ahem. If you're going to tell tacky ethnic jokes, they're "Poles," not "Polacks." Calling someone a Polack is derogatory -- the functional equivalent of "Nigg*r."

The Polish people have a long and proud history of being good fighters, good scientists and overall good people. They also have the unfortunate problem of being geographically in the wrong place. Germans on one side and Russians on the other. But the Poles are a great race.

Now when telling jokes the word is definitely Polack!

As I tell our EEO people here. I have a genetic license to tell Polack jokes.

Do you remember how the Poles had the best calvary in WWII? (no joke actually, they had a crack outfit but everyone else had tanks. a little late there)

[phoenix0468]

"I thought this kind of humor had long ago gone the way of All in the Family and Archie Bunker."

Man I miss that show. It showd just how crass bigotry could be. But it didn't do it in a PC way. It let objective thinking people discover that for themselves. As for those who found Archie's humor funny, well they are the real small minded people. I have to agree that making jokes of someone else on the basis of their ethnicity is small minded. Being of Irish decent, I hear them all the time. But as an American, I identify stronger with being American than being Irish.

[Dionysius]

I stand chastised. By the way, do you know the difference between a Pole and an African-American p*ssing in the sink?
The African-American takes his dishes out first!