The guns and butter pile of the the heapers hangout forum

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• Corporal Forsythe

  2012-09-21 20:38:42

  Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.

  I thought the term was "guns before butter" (quote from Herman Goering regarding a war economy)

  
  

  
  
• Obā-san

  2012-09-21 20:43:17

  
  

  it doesn't matter
  
• Corporal Forsythe

  2012-09-21 20:48:33

  Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.

  so is guns and nanners okay
• Obā-san

  2012-09-21 20:49:07

  
  

  sure
• Tachyon

  2012-09-21 20:52:00 edited 2012-09-21 20:52:15

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Corporal Forsythe said:

  I thought the term was "guns before butter" (quote from Herman Goering regarding a war economy)

  He popularised the analogy, although it predates him.
  
  Anyway
  
  
• lee4hmz

  2012-09-21 21:03:04

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Baked potato guns with plenty of butter, then?
• Gelzo

  2012-09-22 16:53:51

  It's 4:20 somewhere.

  
• Ace Rimmer

  2012-09-22 18:20:34

  Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

  Corporal Forsythe said:

  I thought the term was "guns before butter" (quote from Herman Goering regarding a war economy)

  
  

  
  

  Funny you should say that because I saw a cartoon that was outright saying McCain was the better choice for the 08 election as Obama was for supposedly putting butter before guns.
  
• Gelzo

  2012-09-22 18:48:53

  It's 4:20 somewhere.

  Is butter supposed to refer to luxury items or food in general?

  
  

  In any case, I doubt you can go very far as a large nation if you have no food or no defense.
• Corporal Forsythe

  2012-09-22 18:59:56

  Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.

  Gelzo said:

  Is butter supposed to refer to luxury items or food in general?

  
  

  In any case, I doubt you can go very far as a large nation if you have no food or no defense.

  Well given Germany's economy and capabilities at the time, butter was considered a luxury -- especially so whenever they shifted over to a war economy. Stuff like butter, eggs, coffee, cigarettes, and even beer got shifted over to the troops first.  For probably the only time in German history, WWII saw their beer watered down everywhere. 
• Ace Rimmer

  2012-09-23 05:02:05

  Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

  Gelzo said:

  Is butter supposed to refer to luxury items or food in general?

  
  

  In any case, I doubt you can go very far as a large nation if you have no food or no defense.

  No its supposed to mean general civilian goods afterall;
  
  "The Soviets put guns over butter, but we put almost everything over guns"