[DUMBGRUNT]

the problem of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, political correctness was becoming a problem. Not as bad as today, but still a problem.

[mvonfr]

According to some theories, the Hittites are Kurds.

still, not PC. :D

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

I hate subscription-only web sites!!!

[Noumenon]

Two Hittites walk into a bar. ..

[Larry Lucido]

OP, I know who Gen. John Vessey is, but if you must excerpt then as a courtesy you should perhaps introduce the subject of your except, at the very least.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Yes, and the Bible mentions the Hittites. Scholars mocked the Bible for YEARS and claimed it was a fraud because NOTHING was ever found indicating their was a Hittite nation. Then, all of a sudden after 1880, archaeologists found direct evidence of Hittites. Critics were silenced.

[Verginius Rufus]

Hittite Empire was destroyed about 1190 B.C. After that there were some "Neo-Hittite" states in eastern Turkey and northern Syria for a while. Whether Uriah the Hittite of the Bible was connected to those Hittites, or from an unrelated group, I don't know.

Hittite and two related languages, Luwian and Palaic, were members of the so-called Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family (so distantly related to English). There were some later members of this group in the first millennium B.C. but they all died out.

Kurdish is Indo-European but part of the Indo-Iranian branch, so not descended from Hittite or closely related to it. Armenian is also Indo-European but forms a separate branch.

[MeanWestTexan]

I have a Hittite joke about the famous Hittite Detective Boudreax from Thibodeaux, LA.

The Louisiana State Police had received numerous reports of illegal cock fighting being held in the area around Abbeville and had sent their famous Detective Boudreaux to investigate. Boudreaux promptly began his investigation and then reported to his Commander the next morning.

“Dey is tree main groups involve in dis rooster fightin”, he began.

“Good work! Who are they?” the Commander asked.

Boudreaux replied confidently, “De Texas Aggies, de local Cajuns, and de Demcratic National Char from N’awlins”.

Puzzled, the Commander asked, “Now Boudreaux, how did you find all that out in one night?”

“Well,” he replied, “I went down and done seen dat rooster fight in person. And I knowed immediately dat dem Aggies was involved when a Duck was entered in the fight.”

The Commander nodded, “I’ll buy that. But what about the others?”

Boudreaux nodded knowingly, “Well, I knowed de Cajuns was involved when sumbody bet on de duck!”

“Ah, I see, I see ... “ sighed the sergeant, “And how did you figure the DNC was involved?”

“De duck won!”

[tomkat]

haven't had a good Hittitie thread in here in awhile !