Yes, this is true. IIRC, he predicted that he’d die upon Hailey’s comet’s return.
Hmmm. Twain used to work on a riverboat, which kept him fairly active; Hitler mostly just huddled in trenches getting whiffs of mustard gas. Twain seemed to be someone very comfortable in his own skin, and Hitler…didn’t (genocide’s simply not something you do if you’re comfortable with yourself). If you put the two of them into a room without such things like SS troops to throw the balance, I bet Twain could take him.
Twain: Not any part of an ass.
Hitler: An ass whole.
I think there’s only one thing to really settle this: an MTV Celebrity Deathmatch. “Look at that! Twain has tied Hitler to an anchor chain and is using him to dredge the Mississippi!” “That’s gotta hurt!”
DaveWoo:
Sorry about that. Didn’t mean to imply anthing. Glad to meet a fellow Twain fan. (And presumably not a Hitler fan.)
And Sorry abut that. Forgot to switch identities after Pepper left.
OrcaChow said:
People see Shania’s navel and think “You go!”
People see Hitler’s naval and think “U-Boat!”
You Missourians and Californians can say whatever you want. We New Yorkers have Sam Clemens now and possession is nine tenths of the law.
Mark Twain was among the authors whose books were publicly burned in Nazi Germany in 1933; both for his swipes at the German tongue, and his political beliefs and attitudes toward race. The irony is those same books are often banned from schools today for being “politically incorrect”.
As long as were on a geographical bent:
Both Clemens and Hitler started in the middle of a continent (Missouri and Austria)
Both made an early career move by heading westwards (becoming a journalist in California, invading France)
Both ended up heading eastwards but met a great misfortune (New York and death, the Soviet Union and Stalingrad)