Ever since we (US) bombed the s... out of Baghdad deleting all my
childhood fancy romances (1001 of them), I had a gut feeling that the
World I Used to Know (commie) and the World I Transplanted to (US,
supposedly democratic) lost their demarcation lines and became one...
The last six months -- spying scandal piled on spying scandal -- had me
sneering; high time Americans faced reality, and realised they were as
minutely scrutinised by the powers that be, as anyone else, anyplace
else... :)
But I never had a firm confirmation of my gut feelling...
Today, I got a joke; it's funny... Also, it comes from a US source...
Also, it comes with the same caveat that jokes in commie Poland used to
have:
I don't want even my initials tied to this one,
which makes it heart-breaking, rather than funny...
In my 33 yrs in US, I have *never before*, *not once* heard anyone
worried about having an "off-colour" (politically or otherwise) joke
attributed to them... I was told --when I debated my citizenship --
that one could express oneself freely in US, without repercussions,
unlike in Poland of the same period.
Never believe what you're told... :)
Fear had been commonplace in Poland of my childhood and teens, but my
US environment always pooh-poohed such fears as being baseless; "US has
much higher ethical standards than your commie terrorist monolithical
rulers" I was told... "You are free to express yourself" I was told...
My French is non-existant, but I know there's a timeless phrase: "the
more things change, the more they stay the same"; the commie Poland and
the democratic US have reached a common ground. *So* common in fact,
there's no dividing line anymore...
From: Source Zero
First, some of the items on this link are not polite, but if you can
skip those, then take a look at some of the captions added to these
airline safety signs. Some are pretty funny.
http://www.airtoons.com/
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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