Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
I think I'd rather be called a "beast" than a "cheese-eating surrender monkey."
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I think "boche" means something like "blockhead" anyways.
nonconformist
Miserable
I always preferred "doryphores"
Why is the Pentagon a pentagon?
nonconformist
Miserable
It has five sides.
I had no idea that the French called the Germans that. Interesting. And also rather inappropriate in say the 17th century.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
What that mean?
They decided to build that design building. The name for the Dept of Defense headquarters just kind of stuck.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
Why does the department of defense have such a ridiculously large and famous building is what we should be asking more. Does any other department have a large and or famous building like that?
nonconformist
Miserable
I had no idea that the French called the Germans that. Interesting. And also rather inappropriate in say the 17th century.
No, Doryphore was used in the 1940 wasr and had quite a specfic etymology.
Mowque
Hypermodernist
I'm debating weather I should leave CFC or not...what say you?
Mise
isle of lucy
You won't leave 
Oh, just in the 1940s? Makes more sense. Cos I know what it means in classical history, the Thraikian doryphoroi provided important levies for Lysimachos among others.
Don't leave Mowque!
Mowque
Hypermodernist
You won't leave
I havn't been on for basically a over a week and going to dial-up will just make it that much easier.
Firestorm94
zuh?
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Bigfoot3814
Deity
Don't do it!!!!
nonconformist
Miserable
Oh, just in the 1940s? Makes more sense. Cos I know what it means in classical history, the Thraikian doryphoroi provided important levies for Lysimachos among others.
Nope, a doryphore in France is a beetle that eatsd potatos.
The Germans were called that cos when they came they stole all the potatos
World War II was going on and the huge expansion of the military needed office space. Having the offices spread across dozens of buildings in an era before computers and weak phone systems made no sense whatsoever. So they built the biggest office building they could in the shortest time that they could. The Pentagon was the result.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
What is the point of the line in Mrs. Robinson: "where have you gone Joe DiMaggio a nation turns its lonely eyes to you?"
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