> > Blaming Poland for Wojtek is like blaming Google for Da Pug. ;-)
> >
> > --ravi
Heh, I am an eighth Polish from my Dad's side. Some of my Capos and consiglieres after they left the Apulia region of Italy (there used to be a small town with a name derived from my last name...until the Stalinists in the pre-Eurocommunist era PCI drove tractors w/ice picks through the town, killing all...in a previous incarnation I then came upon the scene bearing Trotskyist and Social Democratic Revisionist texts and newspapers, whereupon the survivors of the Stalinist massacre set upon me and killed me, shouting in a dialect I understood to be Proyectian, something about Che Illich Milosevic defending Socialist Property Relations...) lived in Poland, till they journeyed here in the period around WWI. On the farm in Poland, my Grandma Pugliese left as a very young child, her Mom gave birth to 11 children, only 3 or 4 survived past 4 or 5.
-- Michael Pugliese