So, I was reading "The Great Outage"down in the pit, there was mention of a user who’s username initials are hh, and the fact that he seems (is? I don’t know) a neo-Nazi, or Nazi supporter or whatever. Now my understanding is that neo-nazis seem to like the intials hh and like to use 88 in screen names also (as a reference to hh I guess) but, what is the significance? I don’t get it, why hh?
hh= Heil Hitler.
Ah, seems so obvious now.
Much grace to you coach.
And h is the 8th letter in the alphabet. (English anyway. I don’t know what the German alphabet looks like.) Thus 88 = hh, which is why neo-Nazis like to use the number 88 a lot.
Same as English. H is the 8th letter in German too. The double S or ß isn’t part of the regular alphabet.
Neo Nazis also like “88” because of the famous Nazi-era 88 mm anti-tank/anti-aircraft gun:
I thought it was because they like Wagner so much, and he composed on a piano, which has 88 keys.
And “88” is police code for a disturbance involving nazis.
Wasn’t there also something about a declaration of white superiority, or the like, that was 88 words long? Or am I thinking of some other number?
I remember the failed series from its pilot, Adam 88.
Hence 14/88 etc.
Also 18 - as in Cmbt 18 - is also a reference to AH.
Just posting to comment that of all the woo in the world, I think I hate numerology and its variants the most.
(I also don’t like anagrams. 
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Googling “police code 88” doesn’t confirm this. Do you have a cite?
(I’m dubious, mostly because I can’t see the need for a special code for this kind of eventuality – would the police handle it differently than, say, a disturbance involving anarchists?)
Mall police, specifically.
Positively correct. As a sidenote, 88, or “hatey hate” - a particularly impassioned form of hate - is a notable characteristic of the cultural group in question, which has come to embrace the term in the form of a two-digit number.
That’s really depressing! 88 used to be old telegraphers’ code for “With love and kisses.”
As I recall, the habit of automatically typing HH or Heil Hitler to open and/or close military messages in WW2 was an invaluable aid to Allied codebreakers.
Well, if you think that’s bad, consider this:
If you consider two first names ambiguous, then let’s take the name Lee.
Lee is use as a first name, middle name, and last name.
So technically you could have this for a name:
Lee Lee Lee.
Yes. The Enigma machine at one point required a six-letter code as a starting point. Each machine had three letters. The code breakers found a lot of the codes began with “HIT” and were able to figure out the rest. (“BER” was also a common combination – with “LIN” as the rest).