What is the history of the phrase “gorilla warfare?”?
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"guerilla warfare" not the monkey...\n\n"Guerrilla, from the Spanish term guerra, or War, with the -illa ending diminutive, could be translated as small war. The term was invented in Spain to describe the tactics used to resist the French regime instituted by Napoleon Bonaparte."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_warfare
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here you go \n\n\nMerchants hawking their "stuff," politicians pushing their agendas, the Media exploiting it all. It seems like there's always someone trying to *pull the wool over our eyes*.\nThe *wool* referred to, however, was once just slang for "hair," synonymous with the powdered wigs worn by gentlemen several centuries ago.\nThe most powerful ones with the most elaborate hairstyles became our first bigwigs. It was then no simple task for a *bigwig* to take an innocent stroll down a city street with young hooligans lurking around every corner. As a malicious act, a joke, or for purpose of thievery, they would often pull the wig (the wool) down over said gentleman's eyes, enabling them to make off with his purse in the process. hope this helps you
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I used to be a server and we used to say that all the time but I had no idea where it came from.  So...  I tried to find some info and this is a website I found.  I hope it answers your questions.  I found it interesting.  \n\nhttp://www.dinermuseum.org/culture/culture-slang.php
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This is a references to an old phrase started, not England, but Scottland... the term was mistranslated by the English in the midst of war. The Term was used by the Scottish to bring out their weapons and black axes, the axes weren't really black but that's a different story. In any case... it is now used to mean "Get ready for the worse"
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Does that include King Kong?\n\nBut seriously:  As in humans, social interactions and communications are fundamental to gorillas - they routinely talk, play and entertain themselves and one another using hand gestures, facial expressions, grunts, belches, hoots, “hiccups”, barks, cries, screams and roars to relay their feelings. For instance if a gorilla lets out a loud burp, it means he/she is content when feeding.\n\nIn general hiccups are due to involuntary contractions of the diaphragm and since like humans, gorillas too have diaphragms they are just as subject to hiccups as we are.
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The acronym story is a complete fabrication from the middle of the 20th century.  It is completely false.\n\nThe word is the English cognate of the Proto-Germanic word *fukan 'have intercourse' which has its ultimate origin in Proto-Indo-European *pug- 'to strike' (compare English pugilist from Latin).  The English word f*ck derived according to regular sound laws from the Proto-Germanic form and there are cognate forms in most of the other Germanic languages.  It has moved in and out of vulgarity during its long reign in the Germanic languages.  In some time periods it was simply the normal term for breeding animals.  In Modern English it is moving out of being considered quite so vulgar since it is used so commonly.
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It is a term to describe George Bush's war on Iraq. He has created a culture of death. 2500 of ours and 10's of thousands of Iraqi have died in this stupid war.
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My dad was Slovak!\n\nThe word you are looking for is "camouflage"  I looked up the definition in the dictionary for you.  Hope this helps!\n\n1)The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings. \n2)Concealment by disguise or protective coloring. \n3)Fabric or a garment dyed in splotches of green, brown, tan, and black so as to make the wearer indistinguishable from the surrounding environment
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According to Wikipedia, origins of this saying are unknown.......
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I believe it originated around gangsters of the 20s who wanted a word to act tough with when asking for money such as "Gimme yer dough!!" or "Frankie, don't forget the dough or Patty will be mad" It was just the slang of the time, but sort of lingered till present day
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I'm not entirely sure of the context of this qoute, but I would guess that it is telling a race of poeople who have been historically oppressed by others that they should work together and try to overthrow their oppressors/ achieve a certain goal because they can do anything when together and they are not inferior, even though they might have been told so by their oppressors.
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JJ. It was a japanese. Its cost you 5 points and I get 4. I suppose it could have been a gorilla.\n\nPresume I get the 10 points?
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Yes it is!  Wow, I'm really glad you asked.  The movie is based on real events that occurred in south central Africa in the year 2015.  The apes that lived there thought that they were as good as normal humans and decided to start their own society.  Luckily there are badasses out there like Charlton Heston who don't put up with that kind of monkey crap.  God bless Heston and the NRA.
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The application of the word to human intercourse dates at least as far back as Proto-Germanic times, about 2500 years ago.  The form was *fukan "to have intercourse".  It was not vulgar originally.  Indeed, it started life as a euphemism for another word (perhaps lost in time).  The original meaning in Proto-Indo-European (about 6000 years ago) of *pug- was "to strike" (*pug- is the ancestor word for *fukan).
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Not quite sure about this but I think the phrase may have been coined by William Burroughs. Originally referring to someone with a heroin addiction. Not sure about the monkey image either but I'd guess that if you had a monkey jump on you, it would dig its claws into your back and be quite difficult to remove (like an addiction)...of course this is all a random guess.
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Good news if true. The people in the military not on a neocon string have been asking for it for years.\n\nRummy is part of the American axis* of evil.\n\n*Should be a different word, descriptive of beasts with long ears that go "hee-haw", but some airhead would complain that it was invective, that being the only use of the word they are familiar with.
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It is a phrase I first read in Bill Mauldin's books. He was the most famous cartoonist in WWII and his books will give you a wonderful "grunt-level" picture of the war in Europe. The term is a combination of "garrison" and "paratrooper".\n\nThe cartoon, as I recall, had three soldiers. In the back was an unshaven soldier sitting at a table in an outdoor cafe, getting drunk. \n\nIn the foregraound was a neat, shaven soldier in a tie and a dirty, unkempt combat infantryman, obviously just back from the front lines. The neat one was explaining to the combat one, "We call them garret troopers; they're stationed too far forward to wear a tie and too far back to get shot."