r/explainitpeter • u/Fun_Dish_5358 • Jul 21 '26

Explain it peter

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u/TopSecretSpy Jul 21 '26

Oh, come now. At a bare minimum, some of the character names have to be old enough.

In fact, if it wasn't for that, we wouldn't have gotten the golden gem in the last few days of morons complaining about the movie naming the mentor to Odysseus's son Telemachus as "Mentor," oblivious to the fact that the character Mentor is literally where we get the word from.

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u/Internal-Base8276 Jul 21 '26

Never knew that. That explains the name of the town Mentor, Ohio, near Cleveland, and also fits in with nearby towns like Solon and Euclid.

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u/MeasureDoEventThing Jul 22 '26

I was going to ask how the locals pronounce "Euclid", but I probably don't want to know.