Polie

polie English Etymology From en pole -ie associated. Noun en slang A worker stationed at the South Pole. en iceowl w:Everything2 2006-03-17 https://everything2.com/title/Other+things+nobody+tells+you+about+the+south+pole Polies have much more attitude than McMurdoites. Where a McMurdoite would simply turn and leave a conversation that didn't interest him, a Polie would blatantly change the subject or challenge the entire premise of the discussion. https://web.archive.org/web/20250814215814/https://everything2.com/title/Other+things+nobody+tells+you+about+the+south+pole en 2011 Nicholas Johnson Big Dead Place “When Polies see the red coats come off the plane, we think they're not real Antarctic workers. We see McMurdo as a luxury resort. We think we're tougher and want the people from McMurdo to see how cold it is and how much ice we have en 2013 Gabrielle Walker Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent 187 there have been many attempts to do biological and psychological studies on wintering Polies, to see how a genuine Moon base might play out, or one on Mars. Anagrams en eilop loipe en Antarctica People