> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, jf noonan wrote:
>
> > It tempts me to start telling all those pollock jokes I learned in my
> > youth in the industrial Midwest.
>
> Go on, I double dare you. Tell me one I didn't hear in my youth.
> Noonan, huh? That sounds Irish . . . .
>
> But before we begin I feel constrained to point out that you mean Polack
> jokes. A pollock (or pollack) is a flat fish, sort of like a cod crossed
> with a flounder, and not at all bad.
Well let's hear the pollock jokes, then.