# Kurds = Hittites?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 9, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619 "2005-06-09T17:56:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619/82 "2013-07-24T23:11:37Z")

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The best part is that Mr. Kurds Are Hittites is still visiting this board but doesn’t seem to want to post in this thread anymore. 😛

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619/83 "2013-07-25T10:41:04Z")

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> [@Chimera](#):
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> So the French are Hittites?  
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Only the French aristocrats were of Hittite descent. That’s the reason why revolutionaries used to wear Phrygian caps. As a reminder to the Hittite upper class of what could happen to them.

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**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619/84 "2013-07-25T20:53:37Z")

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Won’t someone think of the Hotten-tots?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619/85 "2013-07-25T21:18:00Z")

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> [@sylmar](#):
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> Won’t someone think of the Hotten-tots?

They’re hot-to-trot hotsy-totsies! 🙂

(Or was that the Tutsi?)

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**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619/86 "2013-07-25T21:22:24Z")

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No, but now I’m thinking of Tater-Tots.

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**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619/87 "2013-07-30T02:33:21Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Thanks. I was surprised at how well it came together when I started working on it.
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> For anyone who may have thought I was serious, I’ll point out the poem was written about a hundred years before the events I described.

Was Nostradamus a Hittite?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kurds-hittites/307619/88 "2013-07-30T03:32:15Z")

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> [@sisu](#):
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> Was Nostradamus a Hittite?

More of a [Paphlagonian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Abonoteichus).

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