Talk:potrzebie

English (Mad magazine)

If we're going to have this at all, the English usage (in "Mad" magazine etc.) should probably be mentioned. AnonMoos (talk) 07:04, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

• Added (it might get removed). SemperBlotto (talk) 07:12, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, but it seems to have been used as a cryptic exclamation in various issues of Mad before Knuth incorporated into his "Potrzebie system of weights and measures". And the English word comes from Polish (even if those who started using it in English didn't have any idea what it meant in Polish)... AnonMoos (talk) 17:05, 12 November 2017 (UTC)