Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Polish joke (Jokes from Poland) Message-ID: <1036@aecom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 02:12:51 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.1036 Posted: Tue Dec 18 02:12:51 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 00:24:08 EST References: <186@talcott.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 33 To follow-up on Greg Kuperberg (harvard!talcot!gjk): > When I say a Polish joke, I mean a joke from Poland, not a joke about > Poles. Anyway, here it is: > A man in Krakow told his friend on the street that since he couldn't find bread in Krakow, he was going to Gdansk to buy some bread for his family. "Gdansk," his friend says, "Why are you going to Gdansk. Don't you know that the only place to buy bread in the country is Warsaw. " "I know that, " the first replies, "but the line begins in Gdansk." [Notes: Warsaw is in the center of Poland. Gdansk on the Coast.] In the days before martial law was declared and it appeared that other countries of the Warsaw pact might invade Poland to put down Solidarity, a Polish worker went up to a soldier and asked him, "If the Russians and the East Germans were to invade at the same time, who would you shoot first?" "Oh that's an easy choice," the Polish soldier replied, "the Russian. Business before pleasure." The following is not from Poland, but rather from Leningrad USSR (from _Political_Jokes_of_Leningrad_) Q: Why did the Egyptians lose the 1967 Six Day War so badly? A: Simple. They followed the advice of their Russian advisors to retreat far into their own territory and wait for the first frost. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!