# Polish halos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-halos/115173>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 21, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-halos/115173 "2002-06-21T00:51:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-halos/115173/1 "2002-06-21T00:51:45Z")

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Re: [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_040.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_040.html)

I refuse to be offended, because I think people who go around being “offended” by every little thing are just sad. (The Starbuck’s ad being simply the latest, saddest example.) But, as an American of Polish ancestry, let’s just say that I am… disappointed that the column was not edited, as so many others have been.

No offense.

– Beruang

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**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-halos/115173/2 "2002-06-21T03:28:08Z")

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You’re right. “Polish” really dates the column in my opinion. He should have said they look “gay.”  
\<ducks and runs\>

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-halos/115173/3 "2002-06-21T04:16:42Z")

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I’m gonna take a stab at defending Cecil. (Not that he needs defending. Ever.)

When he said, in 1984,

> [@](#):
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> and the square halo, used to depict unusually saintly living personages, such as certain scandalously underpaid journalists I could name. (Square haloes, I am obliged to report, look totally Polish. No offense.)

He was most certainly talking about **Mike Royko**. A “known saintly living personage”, an “underpaid journalist” of Polish decent, Cecil was merely talking up one of his “homies.”

(Did I save your ass yet, Unc?).😃