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Pollock jokes

How did they become a "thing?" As far as I can tell Poles never had a rep for being stupid.

by Anonymousreply 15August 4, 2019 8:45 AM

I've never heard jokes about Jackson Pollock. What have you heard?

by Anonymousreply 1August 4, 2019 2:45 AM

***sad trombone noise***, OP.

by Anonymousreply 2August 4, 2019 2:46 AM

I don't know, OP. This sounds kinda fishy to me.

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by Anonymousreply 3August 4, 2019 2:48 AM

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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by Anonymousreply 4August 4, 2019 2:48 AM

Poles were hated before, they way Hispanics are hated now...then there were Albanians.

by Anonymousreply 5August 4, 2019 2:54 AM

OP = a Polack

by Anonymousreply 6August 4, 2019 2:54 AM

Caren Carpenter wrote the first Pollock joke and Richard wrote music to accompany it. It is known.

by Anonymousreply 7August 4, 2019 2:57 AM

R7, uh, it's Karpenter!

by Anonymousreply 8August 4, 2019 3:25 AM

People tell them just for the halibut.

by Anonymousreply 9August 4, 2019 3:27 AM

Historical rivalries between the Poles and Germans over land and power resulted in ethic jokes about each other, culminating in the expulsion and extermination of the Poles by the Germans, rationalized by jokes portraying Poles as dullards and inferior, and therefore, expendable.

Those rivalries were brought over to the new world, where Germans and Poles often competed for land, employment, and housing.

by Anonymousreply 10August 4, 2019 3:33 AM

R8, uh it’s Carpenter. The K is in Karen.

by Anonymousreply 11August 4, 2019 3:36 AM

How many halibuts does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

by Anonymousreply 12August 4, 2019 3:49 AM

Polak jokes were a big thing where I grew up in suburban Detroit. I thought it was a common thing.

by Anonymousreply 13August 4, 2019 4:11 AM

In Texas, we tell Aggie jokes instead.

by Anonymousreply 14August 4, 2019 8:08 AM

"rationalized by jokes portraying Poles as dullards and inferior, and therefore, expendable."

Tell us about it.

by Anonymousreply 15August 4, 2019 8:45 AM
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