>  MP> Some of the Looney Tunes and Popeye cartoons from the time, in their
>  MP> original form, would sometimes make fun of them... at least, the way
>  MP> they looked by exaggerating their eyes and teeth.  Germany got made fun
>  MP> of much more, granted, for being supposedly stupid.
>
> There were a bunch of "Stupid Polock" jokes during the 1970-80's.

By then, I think the Looney Tunes and Popeye were (mostly) no longer being
produced.  That said...

> Ten or so years ago I learned that Polish people are not stupid.

 ... I have some relatives-by-marriage that are of Polish dessent.  I agree
they are not stupid.  Polock is actually not the correct word for someone
Polish, either.  They are usually called Poles.  "Polock" is some made-up
word that may or may not have been meant originally to mean a Pole.

> In WWII it was a few Polish fellows who cracked the CODE that the Germans
> used to send their Secret Messages.
>
> What they did sure helped the British and the USA to shorten the war.

There were also some which were pilots in the war.

> None of my distant relatives were Polish, so I'm not defending myself.
>
> I'm a mix of Scottish and Irish.    (NOT whiskey)

I apparently have no East European blood, either.  All mostly British
Isles, German, and Scandi.

Mike

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