09-05-2011, 04:12 PM
I thought I'd break in here to give a solid 
hock: in that I had no idea Quasqueton was a real place. According to Wikipedia its population in 2000 was a mere 574. Why was that name and place selected over all others? Was that the home of a C&C gamer back in the day? Why mention such an obscure place?
[linguistic musings]Offhand the name sounds Dakota/Lakota (Sioux). The suffix -ton in Dakota means "dwellers", IIRC as in Mdewakanton (Spirit Lake Dwellers). [/linguistic musings]
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hock: in that I had no idea Quasqueton was a real place. According to Wikipedia its population in 2000 was a mere 574. Why was that name and place selected over all others? Was that the home of a C&C gamer back in the day? Why mention such an obscure place? [linguistic musings]Offhand the name sounds Dakota/Lakota (Sioux). The suffix -ton in Dakota means "dwellers", IIRC as in Mdewakanton (Spirit Lake Dwellers). [/linguistic musings]
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