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Pole Poll

Casimir Pulaski

4 votes

Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko

2 votes

Edgy MD Mar 04 2013 09:18 AM

You've got to win a war with late 18th century technology and an army of scarcely trained rustics going up against one the great empires of the age. Who do you want most on your side? Happy Pulaski Day, everybody!

Benjamin Grimm Mar 04 2013 09:28 AM Re: Pole Poll

What, no Bobby Vinton?

Mets – Willets Point Mar 04 2013 09:33 AM Re: Pole Poll

I've always liked Ko?ciuszko, but mainly because of the bridge between Queens and Brooklyn. My Dad used to quip that the name was longer than the bridge.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 04 2013 09:35 AM Re: Pole Poll

There is also a Pulaski Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens, in fact over the same body of water, only a half-mile to the West. I walk back-and-forth over the Pulaski every day. Pulaski wins!!!

Mets – Willets Point Mar 04 2013 09:37 AM Re: Pole Poll

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: There is also a Pulaski Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens, in fact over the same body of water, only a half-mile to the West. I walk back-and-forth over the Pulaski every day. Pulaski wins!!! File that under "things I didn't know."

RealityChuck Mar 04 2013 10:05 AM Re: Pole Poll

Mets – Willets Point wrote: I've always liked Ko?ciuszko, but mainly because of the bridge between Queens and Brooklyn. My Dad used to quip that the name was longer than the bridge. There's another named for him on the Northway over the Mohawk River (though it's called the Twin Bridges by most).

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 04 2013 03:42 PM Re: Pole Poll

SKYWAY OR DIE

Chad Ochoseis Mar 04 2013 04:07 PM Re: Pole Poll

Schools are closed in Chicago on Pulaski Day instead of Columbus Day. But I voted for Ko?ciuszko. That mustache makes Pulaski look like a twerp.

Edgy MD Mar 04 2013 06:30 PM Re: Pole Poll

It's tougt. Ko?ciuszko distinguished himself in the US as a master of fortifications and armaments. Pulaski as a master of horsemen and battle. Ko?ciuszko has some tasty spicy brown mustard with a distinctive zing and a song by Midnight Oil. He also has an accent mark over an S, which is no small thing. Pulaski has the aforementioned bridge, the Pulaski Skyway (which gets you to Kearney, NJ, where soccer heroes are made) among no small amount of other infrastructural landmarks and public landmarks. Pulaski had the greater career before coming to the United States. But Ko?ciuszko went back to Poland for further anti-Russian action as a major general, so if I was a Pole, I'd go for TK, but answering this from an American's perspective, I have to go with Casimir, who pretty much opened the door to the French and then died just as the war was about to end. He also probably saved Washington's life at Brandywine, and therefore perhaps America's. So Pulaski it is.