Can anyone suggest a substitute for "Hitler was vegetarian"?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

The standard rhetorical response (at least from the lazy) when challenged with "X agrees with you on this, X is wrong about a great deal of other things, therefore you are wrong about this" is "Hitler was a vegetarian".

The problem with this response is that, while it makes the case clearly, it's wrong - Hitler wasn't a vegetarian.

Can anyone suggest a good alternative - I like "a stopped clock is right twice a day", but that makes a subtly different point.

[Brickbat]

1. .

Never mind, I was thinking backwards.

[hobbit709]

2. Hitler was a speed freak.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Hitler wasn't a herbivore

Vegetarian is a stupid made up word anyway. Its latin root has fuck all to do with vegetables.

[KittyWampus]

4. Hilter was an army vet.

[Speck Tater]

5. Torquemada was a Chirstian. nt

[sarge43]

6. Hitler liked dogs. n/t

[deurbano]

7. Stalin was a carnivore.

[Ezlivin]

8. Einstein masturbated

N/T

[Tripmann]

9. Dubya went to college

[alfredo]

29. He also picked his nose and ate the buggers. They caught

it on tape.

[Tripmann]

33. He was quite the dashing male cheerleader too.

[alfredo]

37. But the hat he wore had "inbred patrician" written all over it.

[Tripmann]

39. Really? My money was on a pointy hat with a large 'D' on it.

[alfredo]

42. He only wore that when in bed with Laura. It was in the pre-nup

[Catshrink]

10. Daniel Boone was a man, a big man...

[GodlessBiker]

11. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.

[alfredo]

38. And makes it Attorney General.

[cliffordu]

12. Kottke is a fingerpicker??

[Boojatta]

13. Jehovah's Witnesses interpret the Old Testament prohibition against

eating the blood of an animal as meaning that blood transfusions from people are a violation of moral law, and as a consequence some Jehovah's Witnesses survived and remained uninfected in situations where the blood that would have been used was infected with hepatitis or HIV.

Yes, it's long-winded, but I hope that it's clear. I leave the rewrite work (to shorten it) for any participant in this thread who wants to tackle it.

Edited to add: the bonus in this situation is that it isn't merely a war of words. Well done is better than well said, and it was well done for a Jehovah's Witness to dodge the infected blood bullet.

[ZombieHorde]

14. Hitler wore pants outdoors. nt

[TlalocW]

15. Pol Pot was a competitive country line-dancer

Eh, it's all I got.

TlalocW

[KittyWampus]

24. Link?

;)

[pipi_k]

34. I heard he was...

one of the dancing Zombies in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.




:+

[Fumesucker]

16. Stalin was a seminarian..

[Boojatta]

17. Euclid didn't even have a high school diploma, and he never published his work in

any peer reviewed journal of mathematics, so talk to me about logical consequences of the Pythagorean Conjecture after somebody has at least some idea for how that conjecture might one day achieve the status of theorem.

[era veteran]

18. Hitler was a Taurus

[old mark]

20. I thought he was a Toyota Corolla...nt

[UTUSN]

19. HITLER loved dogs. LIMBOsevic loves Xmas n/t

[Deep13]

21. "No he wasn't. ...

Anyway, even if he was, he also bathed regularly. Is that bad too?"

[Vickers]

22. Manson played guitar. n/t

[mitchum]

36. But he's never ridden a bicycle

[blueworld]

23. Al Capone was good to his mother. An oldie but goodie. n/t

[old mark]

25. Actually Hitler WAS a vegetarian - he believed it would engender spiritual growth.

He also did not drink alcohol and haated and did not use tobacco. He DID receive daily injections of amhnetamines from his doctor as well as a synthetic heroin-like compound first named Dolophine after Adolf himself. It has been refined and is in use today under another name-Methadone, a drug used to help alleviate symptoms of heroin withdrawel.
Hitler evidently loved dogs, beat up his sister, Paula Hitler, and imprisoned various relatives, one of whom was mentally ill.Hitler drove a supercharged Mercedes in the early 1920's, never had a driving license, and soon relied exclusively on drivers to save hist time to prepare for speeches.

He really was some sort of vegetarian-he also sought medical treatment for years for indigestion and gas.

Sorry if you find this disagreeable, but it is true.
LINK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_vegetarianism

mark

[asdjrocky]

26. A broken clock is right twice a day.

[Boojatta]

27. When most folks move the clock back an hour, it could be right three times for the day.

Of course, that's assuming that daylight saving time can be considered to be the right time.

[asdjrocky]

30. Hey nit, meet a pick.

[Boojatta]

32. Isn't this whole thread based on a nit?

"After looking beyond popular secondary sources and checking primary historical documents, I conclude that Hitler wasn't a vegetarian after all! Now, if only we had some primary sources to settle the question of whether or not the lions faced by Daniel just happened to be vegetarian lions, or whether they were carnivores like most lions."

[asdjrocky]

40. LOL!

And this illustrates why DU is still a positive force in my life. Just one or to good chuckles a day is enough.

:hi:

[mix]

28. Hitler had one testicle.

fact people!

[Sheepshank]

31. So then, he had a lot of ball? n/t

[mix]

44. But no cojones. nt

[geardaddy]

46. Goering had two, but they were small

Himmler, had something similar and Goebbels had no balls at all.

[mitchum]

35. MLK loved ribs

[Marr]

41. I think I'd just ask them if they're implying that vegetables lead to genocide.

It's such a ridiculous statement, I can't believe anyone would say it seriously.

[Boojatta]

43. Truth is stranger than fiction.

An obscure historical episode:

Colonel Harland Sanders mobilized a detachment of chickens from Kentucky. When they marched into battle in Norway, they came up against field-marshal Erhard Milch. Flabbergasted by the bravery of the chickens, Milch decided that they couldn't be classified as sub-humans (such as slavs or Russians) without offending his own Nazi troops. Nor could he classify them as humans, because even Nazi culture enforced a strict prohibition against cannibalism, and Milch wanted his hungry troops to be able to eat captured chickens. Therefore, he classified the chickens as vegetables, but experts at PETA, working in conjunction with analysts employed by RAND, now have good evidence indicating that the holocaust itself will be secretly organized by time-traveling employees of KFC who are facing a shortage of meat in the future and are convinced that Pythagoras and Plato were right about reincarnation. Under future American law, most European people of the WWII era are legally nothing more than chickens (reincarnated chickens but, under the law, nevertheless chickens).

Link re field-marshal Milch:
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righitpix.html

[NoPasaran]

45. Rene Descartes was a drunken fart

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shanty was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.