The audacity to 'fart in the elevator' and the lingering anger over the AIG bailout

[KingCharlemagne]

2. Not to go all Godwin on you out of the gate, but the standard for

fart-in-the elevator audacity was set by none other than old Adolf himself. My, dinner gatherings at the Berghof and later the Fuhrerbunker must have been pleasant olfactory affairs.

It may sound like a Woody Allen scenario, but medical historians are unanimous that Adolf was the victim of uncontrollable flatulence. Spasmodic stomach cramps, constipation and diarrhea, possibly the result of nervous tension, had been Hitler's curse since childhood and only grew more severe as he aged . . . Strangely, Hitler was unfazed by the fact that this high-fiber diet was having the opposite effect on his digestion than what he had intended. His private physician, Dr. Theo Morell, recorded in his diary that after Hitler downed a typical vegetable platter, "constipation and colossal flatulence occurred on a scale I have seldom encountered before."

http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/the-madman-at-the-breakfast-table