# General Hannibal. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994 "2005-08-07T15:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994/41 "2005-08-08T20:46:51Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > The whole Hannibal thing must not be the common knowledge that some of us thought. I’m tellin’ ya, is there any better judge of common knowledge than _The A-Team_? Hell, I bet lots of people think that you can get shot in the leg by a .50 cal rifle, go to a rural doctor with no surgical facilities, and keep your leg as easy as 1-2-3. Why? 'Cause B.A. did it! ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994/42 "2005-08-09T00:02:15Z")
If it makes you feel any better, **adam yax** , I didn’t get it because I assumed the book must be historical fiction about Hannibal. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994/43 "2005-08-09T00:50:54Z")
> [@](#): > > the fiscal acumen of Attila the Hun Huh? Attila the Hun and fiscal acumen aren’t the two matchs I would have made. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994/44 "2005-08-09T03:02:19Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > I’m not sure if you got that _Hannibal_ is about the cannibal serial killer. If you did my apologies; I have been whooshed. Oh I got that Hannibal was the icky guy from Silence of the Lambs, but he’d not have come to my mind first at all. So there I’d be, bemoaning the declining state of today’s publishing world. Why, when I was a kid, publishers accepted only the best writing and the binding of the books didn’t fall apart on the second reading… So any whooshing would be mine, on me. **js\_africanus** , the crafty devils just use their trunks to remove the corks! Sure, trunk muzzles prevent that, but the cost is prohibitive. The Tusk Freedom groups say super glue on the corks is inhumane, but I say it’s the only feasible solution. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994/45 "2005-08-09T03:10:06Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Huh? Attila the Hun and fiscal acumen aren’t the two matchs I would have made. You have to admit, by the time he was done, Attila was a lot richer than when he started. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994/46 "2005-08-09T05:09:00Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Of course there weren’t any elephants in the book. Atticus put them all in Claudius’ history scrolls. I did nothing of the goddamn sort. Keep your insinuations to yourself, you dirty amphibian! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994/47 "2005-08-09T06:26:30Z")
> [@](#): > > You have to admit, by the time he was done, Attila was a lot richer than when he started. If he was really fiscally acute, he wouldn’t have pillaged Europe, he would have taxed it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-hannibal/315994.md?page=2)