"Guy"? Elaborate on that, if you would...

So, guy originally referred to an effigy of Guy Fawkes or some other detested person. Trollope wrote in The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867): "What are you doing there, dressed up in that way like a guy?" Because the guys were dressed in old, ill-matched clothes, the word also came to mean 'a person of grotesque appearance or dress': "The gentlemen are all 'rigged Tropical' -- grisly Guys some of them turn out" (Julia Charlotte Maitland, Letters from Madras during the Years 1836-39 by a Lady). The word had a pejorative sense through much of the 19th century: "I wouldn't speak to you in the street for fear of disgracing you; I am such a poor little guy to be addressing a gentleman like you" (C. Reade, Hard Cash, 1863). A guy was a person who was an object of ridicule.

The above extract from the following site.

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001101

I am sure all members of the Nazi Party were once thought by many others and by themeselves as just regular guys.

And so they were.............