Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Boston: Classy City, Classy Stories in the Paper

Author: Hitler’s veggie diet misguided bid to fix farts - BostonHerald.com: "Medical historians are unanimous that der Fuhrer had der farting problem, according to an article by historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet in this month’s The Smart Set, a magazine from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Hitler wrongheadedly tried to cure himself, Perrottet says, by reasoning a mostly vegetarian diet would make his farts less offensive.

A hypochondriac, Hitler swore off meat in 1931, saying his ham tasted like “a corpse” after his niece Geli Raubel killed herself.

From then on, Hitler ate vegetables, oblivious that his diet was making him smell worse. His physician, Dr. Theo Morell, wrote that after Hitler downed his vegetables, “constipation and colossal flatulence occurred on a scale I have seldom encountered.”"

1 comment:

Cap'n Bob said...

What's all der furor about? I'll bet no one had the stones to yell, "Who cut der cheesen?"