You kids today with your iPods. When we wanted to listen to the Beatles we had to walk uphill agfainst the wind (both ways!) to wind up the record player, and most of the time it was without the central spidle thing, so it was off-center and Paul sounded all “mi----IIIII–chelle ma-AAAAAA Bellle…”
:eek: I do beg your pardon…
Is news.com.au merely remembering that it has readers from Queensland?
I prefer Reich Krispy Treats.
I’ve met adults who didn’t know who Hitler was.
Who were the Beatles? According to J. B. S. Haldane, a British geneticist, they were God’s favorite band, evidently.
As to the OP, didn’t one Doper pit a coworker because she had honestly never heard of Hitler?
RickJay, was that your Pit thread?
Well, sure. Snickerdoodles are made with goodness while Hitler doodles are made with evil. And everyone knows good tastes better than evil! I believe it has a cinnamon taste to it, IIRC. Goodness, that is, not evil. Evil tastes like horseradishes. 
I’m getting certified as a Safety tech, long distance. The guy who did the economic/business/organizational parts keeps dropping quotations by lastname, without giving any kind of hint as to who the hell that was, no date, nothing. Why should I believe something just because Quick and Quick said it? I have no idea who that was! He also has an ugly habit of including in the evaluation questions to which the answer is not contained in the text. Add his horrid spell-checked spelling (he does things like “seduce discomfort” instead of reducing it) and I dread every business-related chapter.
My part of Spain rebelled against the government 6 times between 1838 and 1936. I happen to know this because of family war stories, there was absolutely no mention in my history books. Oh, wait, I lie: the one in 8th grade had a picture of “the pretender D. Carlos” with no further explanation.
With history, it’s always better to have a tad too much background than none of it, if you ask me.
No, Aryan UberKrisps are the most superior treat in the world, this has been scientificially proven.
And they will stay krispy, even in milk, for one thousand years.
That they shall prevail in the final marketing struggle over their competitor, “Untermenschen-Schnecken” is clearly a matter of superior will and baking properties.
The master race has no interest in your inferior Jewish snackfoods.
Is that like Uncle Ben’s Thousand-Year Rice?
Yep. Some old band. Weren’t too bad but they got so overplayed that I was kind of glad when they finally faded away.
Don’t think so.
Sigmund or Anna Freud? :dubious:
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Read enough Jack Chick tracts and you’ll get the impression most people don’t know who Jesus was.
Je-who?
I’d just like to say, for a long time I had no idea what Watergate was, other than it was a big scandal involving Richard Nixon. It was somewhat before my time. I’d heard about it for years from people who assumed everyone knew what it was about before I actually looked it up and got a full background on it. Sometimes you do need to explain things that are common knowledge to everyone else.
I think the distinction is important, so people don’t confuse Adolph with Vic Hitler, the narcoleptic comedian.
It’s the same with me. The whole period from about 1950 until a few years ago (when I started paying attention) is mostly a blank space in my knowledge, because it’s the stuff we never had time to learn about in history at school. The only time I was officially taught anything about the Vietnam War, for example, was in about twenty minutes at the end of the year in eleventh grade to teach us the answers to the questions that would be on the final. It’s dreadful. I think part of it was not having time (eleventh grade was the year the Iraq war started, and we spent two or three weeks just talking about that and watching the news), and part of it was that a lot of that stuff isn’t history to my teachers, since they were alive then.
Well “Hitler” is very similiar to “Butler”, the only difference is the first two letters and a H and B are very similiar. So maybe some people think it is a reference to Brett Butler and not Adolf Hitler.
When you post an hour past your bedtime this is the best you can do.