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The Picard Maneuver to People [email protected] • 2 months ago

He should be wearing a backwards hat and holding a red bull

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He should be wearing a backwards hat and holding a red bull

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The Picard Maneuver to People [email protected] • 2 months ago
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  • Beacon
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    12•2 months ago

    The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters

    • @[email protected]
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      Except for the name “Madison”, which comes from the 1984 Tom Hanks movie Splash.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•2 months ago

        Fun fact: CGP Grey only makes videos on topics ending in “on.”

      • The Octonaut
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        3•2 months ago

        Its just a surname used as a first name, one of America’s cuter, more demure methods of cultural appropriation.

      • Beacon
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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_(name)

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 months ago

        And also the name “Cameron”, which comes from 2012 series Total Drama: Revenge of the Island

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      3•2 months ago

      Half of them are from the Bibles.

      • Bob Robertson IX
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        3•2 months ago

        It’s crazy to think that if you traveled back in time 2000 years ago you could hang out with guys named John, Luke and Mark.

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          2•2 months ago

          Mike, Paul, Dave too

        • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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          2•2 months ago

          Those are their translated names.

      • @[email protected]
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        4•2 months ago

        Hence the term “Christian name”, meaning one’s first name.

        • @[email protected]
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          Good point!

    • @[email protected]
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      Not mine because it’s an ethnonym, though I guess it’s ancient source is Roman. Also the Roman version is still used as a nickname even though it makes my name longer.

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        1•2 months ago

        And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

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          Technically a vaultdweller in fallout could be considered a pseudo-ethnicity.

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