I definitely remember Pollack jokes. I'm pretty sure I've heard that
one before.
What has two wings and one arrow?
....
A chinese telephone: "wing wing. ehrrow?"
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 3/30/2017 11:07:03 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] OT non PC
Visiting my latest grandchild last week, I pulled out an old joke that
my (frequently ribald) mother told me as a kid.
After the stunned deer-in-the-headlights look that my daughters gave me
after telling the joke I realized that they did not have the cultural
context to appreciate such high class humor.
So, to prepare equally disadvantaged people reading this list by giving
the context necessary, I have to provide some background:
Modern infant formula was developed in 1929. By the 1940s and 1950s,
physicians and consumers regarded the use of formula as a well known,
popular, and safe and many times desirable substitute for breastmilk.
When I was a baby, I was sent home with all kinds of formula samples.
New mothers were instructed as the the proper preparation of formula
and bottles, especially sterilizing the bottles and nipples in boiling
water. They were not given any instructions about nursing. Better
living through science.
OK, also when I was growing up, there were these scandalous joke books
that got smuggled into classrooms and passed around without the teacher
seeing. Most of them poked fun at those with Polish ancestry. Poland
was a part of the USSR in those days. And Pollack jokes were even told
on TV. The early Polish jokes originated in states like Wisconsin by
German immigrants after WWII were directly related to the wave of
American jokes of the early 1960s. Hollywood often portrayed Polish
folks as being backwards. So when I was a kid, most of the jokes were
Pollack jokes.
My kids apparently are totally unaware of all of this so they did not
appreciate this gem told to me by my dear departed mother:
Why don't Polish women nurse their babies?
Hurts too much to boil the nipples...
