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laager or lager
noun:
1. A camp, especially one protected by a circle of wagons or armored vehicles.
2. An entrenched policy or viewpoint. verb tr., intr.
To enclose in a defensive encirclement.
Todays word lager, meaning the up above in English also means a type of beer, but lager in Dutch means lower, while lagers (plural) means bearings and leger means army - but also the lair of hares (not rabbits, who dig holes).
I mean, pfffjjwt.
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also means a type of beer
From what I have garnered from the OED.
lager: 1858, Amer.Eng., short for lager beer (1853), from Ger. Lager-bier "beer brewed for keeping," from Lager "storehouse" (see lair) + Bier "beer."
Hmmm Beeeer.
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There is one school of thought that believes man went from being a hunter-gatherer to farming because we learned how to make beer. Lager, it could be argued, may be responsible for cililization.
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There is one school of thought that believes man went from being a hunter-gatherer to farming because we learned how to make beer. Lager, it could be argued, may be responsible for cililization. Now that is a hearty theory, One I could buy into.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Lager, it could be argued, may be responsible for cililization. Was that cililization hic, or Silliliation? hic. 
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