Ridiculous (Poland)
Warshaw, end of May 2007
"This is so ridiculous!" Angrily, Poland slammed his fists onto the speaker's desk. "Seriously, Mr Dorn, what will the world think of us? An inquiry panel! Due to such nonsense!"
The speaker of the Sejm sighed. "You're right, it's just a children's programme."
"If you like woman's handbags and enjoy wearing purple, that doesn't mean at all you're gay!", Poland hissed. "Please tell Ms Sowińska she can't do that!"
"Don't worry, Mr Łukasiewicz, that's what I was planning to do anyway", Dorn answered calmly.
"All right, thanks in advance, then. And now please be so kind as to excuse me, my ballet lesson is starting." Poland took his black handbag from Dorn's visitor's chair, gathered his pink tutu together, and swooshed out of the speaker's office.
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Ludwik Dorn gazed after Poland for a moment, wondering if he should ask... No, the speaker of the Sejm decided. Sometimes, it was better not to know too much about certain things.
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Notes
Polish spokesperson for children's rights, Ewa Sowińska (born 5 March 1944), a member of the national-clerical League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin, LPR), considered a ban on the Teletubbies in May 2007. She justified this by claiming Tinky Winky might convey "homosexual values" to children due to his purple jumper and his black woman's handbag. At that, Ludwik Stanisław Dorn (born 5 June 1954), a member of the party "Law and Justice" (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) who was speaker of the Sejm from 27 April to 4 November 2007, asked Sowińska not to expose the Polish government to ridicule. The Sejm is one of the two chambers of the Polish parliament.