Diego means "James"
I just got off the phone with a British gent calling from the island of Diego Garcia, which I didn't even know existed till he called. A fascinating place, really. And a reminder of how work and wikipedia can sometimes entertain me for a full 20 minutes or so. Most interesting to me:
- It can be profitable to produce Copra, a bi-product of the coconut. This fact bodes well for any future plans to move to an island with coconuts.
- We (Britain and the US) made the island's (sort-of) native population of Ilois go away, which is not a very nice way to say "Thanks for all that free labor your grandpa gave us."
- It seems like replacing the native folks with nuclear weapons is a pretty damn-near-certain possibility. I suspect that China is less-than-pleased...
posted by Stanley at 10:50
2 Comments:
nuke the world baby! who needs it, we're all gonna die of the bird flu anyway.....
Actually, it's more closely related to the Hebrew name "Jacob", which makes more sense when you use the Hebrew pronunciation which sounds like "Yay-Cobe".
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