pentagon, n.All

The Pentagon is an immense monument to modern man's subservience to the desk.

The Pentagon is so big (with more than seventeen miles of corridors) that there are people wandering around still trying to deliver urgent memos pertaining to the Normandy Invasion.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as necessary because planners had to design the it for black and white employees, including “white” and “colored” cafeterias.