[Oztrich Boy]

The businessman was showing that he is a good subject of the police state. Informing on your fellow citizens is a duty that we all should take seriously (as you apparently do)

Ancient Greece had a law on the books forbidding the export of figs. It was pretty much ignored and nobody really cared.

However an Athenian desiring to demonstrate his absurd loyalty to the City could therefore find some dastardly figshipper to inform on.

It was understood from the nature of the crime, that the informant was not doing this from a sense of outrage at the crime, but to demonstrate loyalty to the State.

Hence from the Greek words for "figs: and "to reveal", we get the word "Sycophant" (True story)

[from occupied ga]

Hence from the Greek words for "figs: and "to reveal", we get the word "Sycophant"

I didn't know that. I suspect we'll see plenty more in the years to come. The guy should be properly thanked.