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Location: Boise, Idaho | To Al, Dave and any of you other Pollacks out there, and the rest of you, Happy Paczki Day. Even though I grew up in Milwaukee, I never knew of this Polish holiday. This is another example of learning something from this board that I should have learned if I was raised properly.
Happy Fat Tuesday to anyone who thinks that Polish is something you rub on your car or furniture. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Now THIS is something to celebrate !!! |
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Location: NJ | you just made me miss my grandmom
it is something to celebrate!!!!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was going to stop buy a pastry shop on the way in this morning, but first I couldn't remember the name of the shop that makes them and then forgot about it until I got in here. I guess I do have plenty of that stereotypical dumb Pollack in me. Maybe I'll remember on the way home.
On the topic of Polish pride, my daughter is the valedictorian of this year's graduating class of the University of Portland. Two for two with Summa Cum Laude kicks that stereotype in the teeth. (I know it's obvious that I'm bragging.) |
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Location: Utah | Congrats, Mark! On the smart kids, I mean, not on the dumb Pollack thing. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | My Grandma couldn't even speak English when she started school. (Her parents had just come over from Poland and none of them knew English.) Yet, Grandma was valadictorian of her graduating class at the age of 16. Not bad for a "dumb Polack"!
That being said, there is a club in Jewett City, Connecticut called "The American Polish Citizens Club". I mentioned one time that they had it backward, but they didn't get it. :D |
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| isn't is supposed to be placzki ? |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
On the topic of Polish pride, my daughter is the valedictorian of this year's graduating class of the University of Portland. Two for two with Summa Cum Laude kicks that stereotype in the teeth. (I know it's obvious that I'm bragging.) Congrats. That's quite an accomplishment. So ... how do you explain the drummer. ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I can't figure out how these smart girls pick their guys. I suspect they find somebody they can take care of. Ask your wife for me, will you? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Rollingdam:
isn't is supposed to be placzki ? my polish has suffered over the years. I thought plazki were potato pancacks and paczek were the donuts.
damn I miss that old time food. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I never learned any Polish, but I googled Polish Fat Tuesday and got Pazcki Day from several different sources. It's pronounce punchkey, so any spelling with a bunch of consonents would probably work. My dad didn't cook and my mom didn't cook Polish, so I never had any of that old time food except an occasional Polish sausage. |
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Location: Chicago | Right on! And tomorrow, of course, is Ash Wednesday. We Orthodox have a few more days before lent ("Clean [or Pure]" Monday) is next week.
And for the resta you's it's like T-Bone sez:
"They call is Stormy Monday, Tuesday's just as bad,
Wednesday's worse and Thursday's, O, so sad. The eagle flies on Friday etc. etc."
Think he was Polish |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I can't figure out how these smart girls pick their guys. I suspect they find somebody they can take care of. Ask your wife for me, will you? She said it was my good looks and abundant supply of cash. At least that what it sounded like to me ... it's hard to understand her when she talks through clenched teeth. |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I can't figure out how these smart girls pick their guys. You're not kidding! Or is it just a Dad thing, where we are programmed to dislike daughters' choices in boyfriends? |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Mark,
When and where were you in Milwaukee? I've been here 30 years (after growing up near Wis Dells).
Randy (in Pewaukee, just west of Milwaukee) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Born at St. Luke's hospital in 1953. My dad worked for Wonder Bread and later was assistant administrator of St. Michael's hospital. I went to grade school at Our Lady of Good Hope and moved to North Dakota in 1966, so it sounds like I missed you. I've only been back for a visit once in 2001.
I went through the Dells several times on the way to visit relatives in 75-78. If I'd have known you were there, I'd have honked. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Does that include those of us who are polish by injection? (And are now divorced?) |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Does that include those of us who are polish by injection? (And are now divorced?) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | That is a very interesting question and one that deserves to be asked twice....
These are the moments when, I Ask myself... Just how much can I get away with.... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...and then disregard the obvious. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I refrained from saying what I was thinking, so you can all just fill in the blanks however you want. |
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OT: Happy Paczki Day.
