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From: Bear's_Class_Account@ub.cc.umich.edu Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: To Err is Hitler Keywords: funny Message-ID: <S275.de2@looking.on.ca> Date: 8 May 91 23:30:04 GMT Lines: 101 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca

The following began life as a Top Ten list of "Mistakes Made by Adolf Hitler." it was passed around during a lecture in a political science class of mine and soon grew to over 100 entries. I have culled out the stupid and/or truly offensive ones, as well as any that said nasty things about any particular nationality (read, the French.) You'll have to excuse the fact that some of them are rather obscure, but that's what happens when you get a bunch of political scientists in the same room. Without further ado, I give you...

Top 59 Mistakes Made by Adolf Hitler

1. Land War in Asia 2. Changed name from highly catchy 'Schickelgruber' to boring 'Hitler' 3. Leaving his little mustache: not growing a friendly Abe Lincoln beard to instill trust among subjects 4. Not buying lifts for his shoes 5. Failure to exploit Me 262 Messerschmidt 6. Failure to exploit Eva Braun 7. Chose swastika as party symbol rather than the daisy 8. Chose Josef Goebels rather than Marlene Dietrich to promote Nazi image 9. Chose "Deutschland Uber Alles" over "Let's All Be There" as party slogan 10. Lost the Ark to Indiana Jones 11. Chose unfashionable blacks and browns rather than trendy plaids and stripes as uniform colors for SS & SA 12. Referring to Stalin as "that old Georgian fat back" 13. Indiscriminate use of V-2 rockets for public fireworks displays 14. Free beer in munitions plants 15. Lisp never corrected 16. Bad toupe 17. Refused to undergo nostril reduction surgery 18. Failed to conquer strategically important Comoros Islands 19. Fell asleep in staff meetings 20. Chose Italy as ally 21. Land War in Asia 22. Got involved with a Sicilian when death was on the line 23. Made pass at Eleanor Roosevelt during 1936 Olympics 24. Built heliport on top of new Reichstag building which looked remarkably like a bullseye from the air 25. Always got Churchill out of bed for conference calls 26. Never had fireside mass rallies 27. Told Einstein he had a stupid name 28. Used SS instead of LAPD 29. Admired Napoleon's strategy 30. Strong fondness for saurkraut and beans made General Staff avoid him constantly 31. In last days, chose to hide in bunker rather than ask U.S. for a little country place in Hawaii 32. Nightmare involving Pillsbury Doughboy haunted him constantly with war advice 33. Major theme in speeches -- "liebensraum, or "living room" -- widely misperceived as call for domestic architectural reform 34. Failed to revoke Rudolph Hess's pilot licence. 35. Pissed off Jesse Owens at 1936 Olympics 36. Didn't put his brother Billy in the concentration camps. When word got out that Billy was just a beer guzzling fat guy in a small town in Bavaria who grew peanuts it was bad P.R. for Der Fuhrer 37. Breast feeding for too long 38. Passed up Finish "tanks for snowshoes" offer before invasion of USSR 39. Drank to much at Beer Hall Putsch 40. Spent jail time planning how to conquer the world instead of his own escape. 41. Forgot to write "Dear Joey" letter to Stalin before invasion of Poland 42. Blew nose on Operation Barbarossa maps, forcing extemporaneous invasion of Soviet Union 43. Took no steps to keep Neville Chamberline in power 44. Chose the Tirpitz for that weekend of love with Eva in the Fjords 45. Frequently mistaken for Charlie Chaplin due to mustache; undermined credibility (as when he threatened to invade Poland, everyone waited for the punchline) 46. Came off as poor loser when "Triumph of the Will" failed to win Oscar for "best Foreign Documentary" -- "You don't like me" speech undermined image. 47. Used to make prank calls to FDR asking if he had "Prince Albert in a can" 48. Forgot correct interpretation of Nietzche; caused much embarrassment when he used to cite philosophical support for his concept of the "Oberdude" 49. Got drunk on schnapps and suggested Tojo attack the U.S. saying, "The U.S. only has twenty times your industrial power, what are you, a wimp?" 50. Listened to too much Wagner and not enough Peter, Paul and Mary 51. Spent too much on screwdrivers and toilet seats 52. Tried to play football with Axis Lucy who pulled the ball away at the last second 53. Failed to encourage tourism 54. Being born 55. Never did the honorable thing with Eva Braun 56. Alienated Chamberline at Munich by sticking an "Invade me" sign on his back 57. Kept Colonel Klink in command 58. Churchill mistakenly thought "Deutschland Uber Alles" was a veiled threat 59. Used same astrologer as the Reagans -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply.

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