Viewing a thread

You are logged in as a guest. ( logon | register )

At random: Interests in submarines extends to royalty and presidents. The King of England and the King and Queen of Spain are among those who have made submerged cruises in submarines. As a result of a trip in an early United States submarine, President "Teddy" Roosevelt ordered extra compensation for personnel serving in the "Silent Service." President Harry Truman made a 440 foot dive in a captured German submarine. The first President to cruise aboard a nuclear submarine was President Eisenhower who rode the USS SEAWOLF out of Newport, Rhode Island on September 26, 1957.

An Old One But a Good One Moderators: Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page]
Forums-> Submarine Discussion	Message format

Pedro

Posted 2017-08-06 3:51 PM (#84611)

COMSUBBBS

Posts: 2974

Location: Liverpool, England

Subject: An Old One But a Good One

Readers in the UK will no doubt remember this as the joke that caused Des O'Conner's TV show to be cancelled, after Stan Boardman told it live, on prime-time television - with Des looking on, horrified.

American readers, who are accustomed to "Polish" jokes, may be expecting this to be an anti-Polish joke which depicts Polish people as stupid. It's not. In fact, the stereotype of Poles in this country is probably very different to that of the US, since the main thing that people think of here - when they think of Poles - are all the Polish airman who fought for the RAF in the Battle of Britain, and the Polish paratroopers who fought at Arnhem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Yf5B6GbYk

Pedro

Ric

Posted 2017-08-06 5:05 PM (#84613 - in reply to #84611)

Plankowner

Posts: 9164

Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: RE: An Old One But a Good One

Good one Pedro. I have heard that one many times.
It is true that some in this country look down on people of various heritages. We are also well aware of the bravery of the ex-pat Poles who made such a huge contribution to the battle of Britain. When I lived on my boat a Polish fellow just down the dock, who also lived aboard, was one of those brave fellows. Very smart man, helped design the landing rockets for the moon landing. The moon landers had a cluster of 29 rockets, not one, just in case one or two failed.

Bob Mahon

Posted 2017-08-07 10:06 AM (#84619 - in reply to #84611)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 932

Location: Milford, PA

Subject: RE: An Old One But a Good One

That was great, Pedro. Never saw that before.

Jump to page : 1
Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page]

Printer friendly version
E-mail a link to this thread
Jump to forum :

(Delete all cookies set by this site)
Running MegaBBS ASP Forum Software v2.0 © 2003 PD9 Software