Yes, good joke. Don't worry about being "politically correct" with jokes
among your friends like CSGNET. I'm from England, and I spent ten years
in New Zealand. Australians and New Zealanders have lots of jokes about
people from England, they begin with comments about the foreigners being
pomegranates (pink, not sunburned) and go on to their being kippers
(two faced and gutless). But nobody sensible is upset. I think having
too many poles on the right destabilising the autopilot is very funny,
and I have Polish friends. And anyhow, anybody who wants to
be offensively funny at the expense of Poland should remember how much
Europe and America owe to Marian Rejewski and his colleagues as well
as to Frank Rowlett, William Friedman, and probably Adrian Albert too.
So Poland has much to be proud of from many centuries, and the Poles I
know think about their proud history, and laugh at the jokes with
everybody else.
John Gabriel (gabriel@eid.anl.gov)