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2007-10-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Hitler's bowel poblems may have contributed to his defeat

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Posted by Mike 2007-10-31 13:31|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Excessive Hefe Visen?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-31 13:54|| 2007-10-31 13:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry folks, but you can't blame the Fuhrer's gastro-intestinal problems on stress. Studies done in the United States on Stress and GI problems show that GI problems CAUSE stress. Not the other way around.

To blame his GI problems on nervous tension is pseudo-science.

It only could have contributed to his defeat if it caused him to declare war on the US on Dec. 8 or violate the Soviet Nazi Pact. There wasn't a damn thing he could have done after 1943 to win the war. No decision he could have made would have changed the outcome.

Now Braxton Bragg, besides being an assh*le, had problems there as well. That may have something to do with his temperance during the siege of Chattanooga.

Posted by Penguin 2007-10-31 14:26|| 2007-10-31 14:26|| Front Page Top

#3 And Napoleon lost at Waterloo because his hemorrhoids were so bad he had to screw his nerve to the sticking point just to mount his horse.

But unbalanced intestinal fauna or severe food sensitivities aside, I agree with Penguin on both counts with regard to Herr Schickelgruber. I s'pose we can be grateful his doctor worked so hard to kill him, though...

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-10-31 16:19|| 2007-10-31 16:19|| Front Page Top

#4 In the 1970's the National Lampooon did a spoof on this very subject.

I wonder if any of the guys who wrote the piece have seen this now.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-10-31 17:05|| 2007-10-31 17:05|| Front Page Top

#5 He was also a vegetarian. What kind, I don't know; vegan, lacto-ova, etc. A vegetable diet can be gaseous-particulary if there are a lot of beans. He was one drugged out dude.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-31 17:17|| 2007-10-31 17:17|| Front Page Top

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