To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Polish political humor
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:01:38 -0500
Oh, good grief. It was a joke. How touchy can people be. I thought it was
funny. Heck, my ancestors did a lots of stuff that woud be considered...,
hmm, inappropriate now. Vikings, dontcha know. Doesn't mean I burn, rape, and
pillage.?? The standing joke is "FIRST you pillage, THEN you burn"
Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:39 pm
Subject: [Homestead] Polish political humor
"In an episode that could potentially strain relations between Warsaw and
Washington, Radek Sikorski, an Oxford-educated politician who has lived in
the
US, was reported to have made the jibe by an opposition politician, Ryszard
Czarnecki.
Writing in his blog, Mr Czarnecki, an MEP, quoted the foreign minister as
saying: "Have you heard that Obama may have a Polish connection? His
grandfather
ate a Polish missionary." "