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To: decimon

Mao? What ever happened to good old American names like Cathcart, Peckham, and Dreedle? /obscure


6 posted on 12/16/2010 2:04:45 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
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To: NonValueAdded

There, there. There, there.


7 posted on 12/16/2010 2:55:22 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: NonValueAdded

Back in the day, America’s scientific breakthroughs came from scientists with all-American names. like Oppenheimer, Fermi, Szilard, Bohr and Alvarez. :P

(I had to Google to get the reference ... I suppose Yossarian would have been to easy.)


10 posted on 12/17/2010 12:46:26 AM PST by ReignOfError
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