# Out on the road today, I saw a "MENGELE" license plate on a pickup truck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 29, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610 "2021-09-29T22:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/61 "2021-10-01T04:30:23Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > those american taliban members Sorry, but the acceptable descriptions of these people do not include “American Taliban” They are to be referred to as either “Vanilla ISIS” or “Y’all Qaeda” ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/62 "2021-10-01T05:01:00Z")
well damn! erm, why can’t we call them american taliban? round these parts that’s who they most resemble ideologically. Yes, I have seen a state legislator advocating in session for women to be returned to the home where “god intended for them to be, caring for the home and children” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/63 "2021-10-01T05:35:25Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > why can’t we call them american taliban? Because the Taliban actually accomplishes some of their goals. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/64 "2021-10-01T12:26:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > _Reductio ad absurdum._ When all else fails. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > We have reached that point. We reached that point (at least for Mengele) quite a while ago. I took history in the 1970’s. I only know who Mengele was because I read some book with stories about various evil folks, and I only knew Eichmann’s name (who I confess I sometimes get confused with Mengele - I thought M had been brought to justice but he apparently died a relatively free man) because of Reader’s Digest story about his capture. I’m certain a lot of that is because I am white and raised as a Catholic - there wasn’t the visceral connection to the Holocaust which would keep monsters like them more in memory. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/65 "2021-10-01T13:42:23Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > well damn! erm, why can’t we call them american taliban? round these parts that’s who they most resemble ideologically. American Taliban can be the blanket term that encompasses the entire magat culture. Y’all Queda and Vanilla ISIS are the foot soldiers: abortion clinic bombers, coal rollers, the treasonous assholes who stormed the Capitol, etc.,etc… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/66 "2021-10-01T13:57:54Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > AUTODFE would also work. > > “Auto-Da-Fe” also sounds like the place where you might buy a used car. > > “Come on down to Auto-Da-Fe, for Da-Fun and Da-Financing!” From History of the World, Part 1: > [@](#): > > {EXECUTIONERS} > Hey Torquemada, whaddaya say? > > {TORQUEMADA} > I just got back from the auto-da-fé > > {EXECUTIONERS} > Auto-da-fé? What’s an auto-da-fé? > > {TORQUEMADA} > It’s what you oughtn’t to do but you do anyway ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/67 "2021-10-01T14:02:26Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > “Why Are All Pickup Truck Drivers Assholes?” Not all pickup truck drivers are assholes. I have noticed, however, that a greater proportion of drivers of WHITE pickup trucks are assholes, and I am more than happy to concede that a larger proportion of pickup truck drivers are assholes than the proportion of drivers of cars or minivans are assholes. Oh, and I suppose I could add… [Kinky Friedman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BYky67PB-4) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7BYky67PB-4/maxresdefault.jpg "Kinky Friedman - "Arsehole From El Paso" [Live from Austin, TX]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BYky67PB-4) ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/68 "2021-10-01T14:11:56Z")
Fuck dude, you really feel the government should be issuing license plates that say (in effect) “Torture and Kill Jews and Other Undesirables”? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/69 "2021-10-01T19:44:14Z")
Still my all-time favorite: > **[Virginia DMV Revokes World's Greatest License Plate](https://jalopnik.com/virginia-dmv-revokes-worlds-greatest-license-plate-5724684)** > > A man in possession of the world's greatest license plate has lost his battle with the Virginia DMV, who ridiculously claim it encourages oral sex with kids instead of just cannibalism. Here's their predictably unfunny response to the funny plate. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/70 "2021-10-02T11:28:05Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > Weird. Your reply shows that the MathJax plug-in doesn’t seem to kick in for quoted replies. The red shows up fine in my post, but the dollar signs seem to have been stripped on the quote you responded to. I’ll go see if that’s a known issue in ATMB. I posted somewhere in ATMB a few weeks ago that quoted text messes up MathJax stuff. Take another closer look: It’s more messed up than what you describe. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/71 "2021-10-02T12:33:04Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I read an anecdote recently, possibly here on the SDMB, about someone whose coworker would open up an excel spreadsheet, type a value into one field, a second value into another field, and then take out a handheld calculator, use it to add the two numbers, and enter that value into the third field. This was definitely being done, not by one person, but by at least a dozen people, at a company my company acquired. Not two numbers but thousands and thousands of numbers. They’d multiply the numbers on a calculator for Price X Quantity to get “Extended Cost” and then add those down into subtotals for categories and “Grand Totals”. All the adding was done on ten-key calculators and the “tapes” were kept as records. Then the big boss’ Executive Admin would create a summary spreadsheet by typing in the “Grand Totals” from each department manager’s reports into her spreadsheet. To make matters worse, if the Department Managers did not like the total cost, they would just type in a more acceptable number that was within budget. 100 + 50 + 75 = 200 was just fine for them. When I converted all this to a multi-user database they were royally pissed at the lack of flexibility. Some math Nazi was requiring that the total projected cost be the sum of the costs of the individual items they plan to purchase, regardless of whether this was higher or lower than budget! ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/72 "2021-10-02T13:17:58Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > All the adding was done on ten-key calculators and the “tapes” were kept as records. How ironic. I have an old “retailers trade” magazine that shows how it is feasible to create false tapes by manually pulling the tape up and down as the calculator prints. Back to the topic: I tried a white pages search for people named MENGELE. More hits than I expected. Either these people are just stubborn enough to want to keep their family name - and don’t care that well has been poisoned, or they are (even worse) changing their names. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/73 "2021-10-02T15:25:55Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I’m certain a lot of that is because I am white and raised as a Catholic - there wasn’t the visceral connection to the Holocaust which would keep monsters like them more in memory. Quite a lot of Catholics were killed in the camps. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/74 "2021-10-02T17:31:32Z")
Parked at the grocery store yesterday and the plate in front of me said **BUTGOD3**. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/75 "2021-10-02T18:20:39Z")
Sorry, not sure I get that. Eradicate my ignorance ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/76 "2021-10-02T20:07:31Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Quite a lot of Catholics were killed in the camps. True, but not for being Catholic. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/77 "2021-10-02T20:17:02Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > True, but not for being Catholic. No? > **[Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Poland)** > > During the German Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), the Nazis brutally suppressed the Catholic Church in Poland, most severely in German-occupied areas of Poland. Thousands of churches and monasteries were systematically closed, seized or destroyed. As a result, many works of religious art and objects were permanently lost. > Church leaders were especially targeted as part of an overall effort to destroy Polish culture. At least 1,811 members of the Polish clergy were murdered in Nazi concentra... > **[Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Germany)** > > The Roman Catholic Church suffered persecution in Nazi Germany. The Nazis claimed jurisdiction over all collective and social activity. Clergy were watched closely, and frequently denounced, arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Welfare institutions were interfered with or transferred to state control. Catholic schools, press, trade unions, political parties and youth leagues were eradicated. Anti-Catholic propaganda and "morality" trials were staged. Monasteries and convents were target... – Wikipedia, I know; but no time right now to hunt further. I know that the Catholic church was in some ways also complicit with the Nazis. Good example of how that often doesn’t save complicit groups, either. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/78 "2021-10-02T20:27:44Z")
But didn’t they generally have to do something to piss off the Nazis first, like say something critical of them or their actions? Merely being a catholic wouldn’t earn you a ticket on a train to the camps, like it would for Jews, Romani, and homosexuals. [German churches and Nazi state](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state) explores how both catholic and protestant churches were split internally regarding the Nazis, and how the Nazis promoted both the catholics and protestants who espoused National Socialist policies and dropped the hammer on opponents. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/79 "2021-10-02T22:22:18Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > Parked at the grocery store yesterday and the plate in front of me said **BUTGOD3**. 🤣 It seems like once a week I’m telling Vaderling not to call me butt-dad when I say no to something he asks for. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610/80 "2021-10-02T23:06:21Z")
Jehovah’s Witnesses were, for being JWs. The reasoning behind this was that they were subversive because they did not serve in the military. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-on-the-road-today-i-saw-a-mengele-license-plate-on-a-pickup-truck/951610.md?page=5)