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Hitler is back! and Black!

Started by chainsaw midget, December 03, 2020, 01:23:43 PM

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chainsaw midget

With everything going on in the world this year, who would have expected Adolf Hitler to return to political power?  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9013447/Politician-named-Adolf-Hitler-wins-election-Namibia.html

If you don't want to read the link, a politician named Adolf Hitler won the Namibian election. 

"The fact I have this name does not mean I want to conquer Oshana," Adolf said,  "It doesn't mean I'm striving for world domination."

Rev. Powell

2020 is full of surprises, but I did Nazi that one coming.

(Sorry, but if I didn't say it, someone else would.)
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

RCMerchant

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

pacman000

If that name wasn't associated with that monster, it would still be a cool name; it means Wolf.

RCMerchant

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Quote from: pacman000 on December 03, 2020, 02:34:44 PM
If that name wasn't associated with that monster, it would still be a cool name; it means Wolf.
No. It doesn't.  :lookingup:
Hitler liked to associate himself to a wolf- the Wolf's Lair where he used to hide in the mountains, naming his dogs "wolf", imagining himself as a lone wolf against the world, but the name "Adolf Hitler" does not in any way translate into the word "wolf".
In any language.
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

lester1/2jr


Trevor

I had a colleague named Hitler (first name): nice guy. Always a smile for everyone.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

pacman000

Quote from: RCMerchant on December 03, 2020, 02:42:01 PM
Quote from: pacman000 on December 03, 2020, 02:34:44 PM
If that name wasn't associated with that monster, it would still be a cool name; it means Wolf.
No. It doesn't.  :lookingup:
Hitler liked to associate himself to a wolf- the Wolf's Lair where he used to hide in the mountains, naming his dogs "wolf", imagining himself as a lone wolf against the world, but the name "Adolf Hitler" does not in any way translate into the word "wolf".
In any language.
I was basing that on what I remembered from the World Book Dictionary; they had a short section of names, which said Adolf was a Germanic name meaning wolf. According to this https://ohbabynames.com/all-baby-names/adolfo/ it's a shortened form of 'Adalwolf, composed of the elements "adal" (noble) and "wulf" (wolf).' So you are right; Adolf does not directly translate to wolf.

chainsaw midget

Quote from: Trevor on December 03, 2020, 03:21:17 PM
I had a colleague named Hitler (first name): nice guy. Always a smile for everyone.
Wow.  Now there's a quote we can take out of context later if we ever need to discredit you for anything.