After having read CoL49, this is what one of my students said ...
Dave Monroe
monropolitan at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 25 13:58:33 CST 2005
I was had a freshman writing class student tell me
that, say, African or Asian or whatever Americans
shouldn't be concered with ethnic jokes because (and I
quote) "Polacks don't mind Polish jokes." Now me, I
was born Irish, but raised Polish, so ... so you,
miss, are talking to a "Polack" ...
--- Tim Strzechowski <Dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> "I can't believe that we actually had to read this
> book. It was based on an obsession over an
> underground mail system. (How exciting...) Why would
> anyone even care if there was mail getting delivered
> by means of something other than the system set up
> by the U. S. Government."
>
> Welcome to MY world . . .
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