From: "Kevin Carson" <kevin_carson-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: list monitoring?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:49:19 +0000


Heh heh.  I read somewhere that there was a Capt. Paul Hitler in the US Army 
during WWII.  When asked why he didn't change his name, he said "Let that 
son of a bitch change his!"

I'll respond on the theory of value stuff sometime in the next few days.  It 
may take a while to put a coherent answer together.



>From: Joacim Persson <joacim-AT-ymex.net>
>
>Speaking of Hitler and ID... There was a funny story in a local paper
>recently, an interview with a man whose surname was "Stalin". He had worked
>as bartender from the 1940's until his retirement. His surname had put him
>in trouble may times during the cold war, particulary when he worked on a
>cruising ship in traffic between Gothenburg and New York. The first time he
>got to the customs in NY in 1948, the officer refused to let him through,
>until Stalin's father's aunt (an immigrant; a fierce little lady) who had
>come to meet him up, had slammed her umbrella in the desk and given the
>officer a good call-down, and all papers had been signed and stamped in a
>great hurry.
>
>But the best incident was when he worked on a hotel in Jnkping in Sweden
>(the hopelessly misconfigured and broken mail server this mailing list
>unfortunately passes through will probably rewrite the o-diaeresises to o's
>for no reason that makes any sense for anyone having a clue about mail
>servers), and the boss one day asked him to go out in the lobby to greet
>the new guests. One of them was a travelling salesman from Kalmar named
>Hans Hitler. So Stalin and Hitler finally met there in that hotel lobby.
>Mr Hitler came often to the hotel where Stalin worked, and usually stayed
>for a fortnight in a row, so eventually they became good friends.
>
>One day Stalin went over to the telegraph office to send a telegram to his
>sister on her birthday. In those days, they had to sign telegrams with
>their full names, so he wrote his name on the line for surname, "Stalin",
>and the clerk refused to accept it, because Stalin didn't have any ID with
>him that day; the clerk thought it was a joke of course. But Stalin's good
>friend Hitler who happened to be with him, backed him up: "Sir! I can
>certify this man's identity." and pulled out his driving licence...
>


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