{"id":602,"date":"2009-08-31T08:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=602"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:50:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:50:34","slug":"famous-cartoon-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/famous-cartoon-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Cartoon Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking with somebody yesterday and she mentioned that a few years back when she was flying to Poland from Chicago, the in-flight entertainment included cartoons about a goat and two stick figures. It was a LOT flight, she added.
\nA goat? Two stick figures? (That one I very quickly determined to be Bolek i Lolek<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

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Upon further questioning, it turned out that the goat had a bundle on a stick and was traveling the world. OK, that was easy. The goat with the bundle traveling the world, no doubt wanted to find Pacan\u00f3w<\/strong>, where they supposedly make goat shoes (like horse shoes, but for goats). The goat, of course, was Kozio\u0142ek Mato\u0142ek<\/strong>. The story of Kozio\u0142ek Mato\u0142ek<\/strong> is a Polish classic. I remember it mainly from the cartoon series and needless to say, I was mighty surprised that LOT would select it as part of their in-flight entertainment. But hey, anything is possible with LOT.<\/p>\n

The Kozio\u0142ek Mato\u0142ek<\/strong> animated series is based on a comic book created by Kornel Makuszy\u0144ski<\/strong>. Actually more than one book, from what I could figure out, there were four of them altogether.<\/p>\n

But what the woman I spoke to about Kozio\u0142ek Mato\u0142ek<\/strong> wanted to know was if what her seat mate told her was really true. She wasn\u2019t sure how to phrase this question politely and at the same time don\u2019t end up looking like an idiot in case the information she got was wrong. She went around like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what about this Pacan\u00f3w? Is it a real town?\u201d<\/em>
\nAnna: \u201cYes, it is. Though I\u2019ve never been there.\u201d<\/em>
\nShe: \u201cAnd people aren\u2019t embarrassed to live there?\u201d<\/em>
\nAnna: \u201cWhy would they be?\u201d<\/em>
\nShe: \u201cWell, you know, living in a place with such a goofy name\u2026\u201d<\/em>
\nAnna (who figured out where this was going): \u201cNo, not all of them are stupid.\u201d<\/em>
\nShe: \u201cSo it IS true!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, what she wanted to know was if the word \u201cpacan<\/strong>\u201d really was a synonym for \u201cstupid\u201d. And yes, the word \u201cmato\u0142<\/strong>\u201d also signifies a person who\u2019s not all that bright.<\/p>\n

Hmmm\u2026<\/p>\n

Personally, I\u2019ve never liked Kozio\u0142ek Mato\u0142ek<\/strong>. It just wasn\u2019t my kind of animated TV series. And no, I don\u2019t know what came first. Whether \u201cmato\u0142<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cpacan<\/strong>\u201d had always meant what they meant and that\u2019s why Mr. Makuszy\u0144ski<\/strong> used them in the story. Or whether they became synonyms for \u201cstupid\u201d after the birth of Kozio\u0142ek Mato\u0142ek<\/strong>. That I really don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

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The good people of Pacan\u00f3w<\/strong> even got themselves a statue of the famous cartoon goat…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

I was talking with somebody yesterday and she mentioned that a few years back when she was flying to Poland from Chicago, the in-flight entertainment included cartoons about a goat and two stick figures. It was a LOT flight, she added. A goat? Two stick figures? (That one I very quickly determined to be Bolek…<\/p>\n

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