From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:48:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fqwhsln.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv5kve43.fsf@debian.uxu>
On 2015-06-22, at 01:25, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> How about: When do you drink your last milk in Poland?
> ... The day the cow sit down.
>
> *ouch*
Meh.
> Or: What do Polish women get after they marry, which
> is long and often difficult to handle? ...
> A family name.
>
> XHA XHA XHA XHA!
This one is a bit better (mainly because of the language component).
I like language-based jokes a lot. (How about this: a female student of
humanities ask her female friend studying CS about dating prospects at
her faculty. The answer? "The odds are good, but the goods are
odd.";-))
> If you read the autobio of Steve Wozniak, which
> I think is this:
>
> @book{iwoz,
> title = {iWoz},
> author = {Steve Wozniak},
> publisher = {Norton \& Company},
> year = 2006,
> ISBN = 0393061434
> }
>
> you get many such jokes. Woz had not-that-distant
> roots in Poland. When he was into the phreak scene he
> put up a telephone "service" to which you could call
> for Polish jokes. The thing got so popular eventually
> the US-Polish association called him and asked him to
> drop it as it put their country in bad light. Woz then
> asked if it was OK if he just replaced Poland for
> Italy. That, they said, would be OK.
And that -- by far -- is the best one in your email!!!
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2015-06-21 20:35 ` How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices* Emanuel Berg
2015-06-21 22:01 ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-21 22:46 ` [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*) Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-22 0:16 ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-22 9:19 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-22 10:20 ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-22 11:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.5407.1434932215.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-22 0:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-23 20:13 ` Jürgen Hartmann
[not found] ` <mailman.5404.1434926802.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-21 23:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-22 11:48 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-06-23 20:36 ` Jürgen Hartmann
[not found] ` <mailman.5435.1434973706.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-22 20:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-23 21:19 ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-22 10:46 ` How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices* Oleh Krehel
2015-06-27 11:34 ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-27 11:33 ` Jürgen Hartmann
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