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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also Tiffany, Dennis, Squirrel, and Jerome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tiffany I recently found out is old, but Squirrel?? Who's named Squirrel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Squirrel is.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

as someone not from the US, when I watched the show, I was very confused about that word, until I looked it up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i love how the jaguars being really good for a season perfectly lined up with what was happening in the show at the time

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This feels somewhat related: John, Johann, Ivan, Evan, Ian, Sean, Jean, Juan, João, Giovanni, Yannis, Yahya, Jack, Shane, etc are all based on the Hebrew name Yohanan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

"The sound was always 'John'"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was Yah-son, though, not Dgay-son. Probably.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

the gay son? Story checks out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think George comes from the Greek word for farmer "Georgos"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also Tiffany which can be argued to originate from Theophania.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Tiffany is the epitome of this phenomenon, to the point that it's named the Tiffany Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Problem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a good read. I would have used my dagger to steal so much holy water. From the videos I watched there was nothing making sure a proper coin was used in the holy water vending machine.

The first known vending machine, created in the 1st century CE by Hero of Alexandria, dispensed holy water. This invention predates the modern concept of vending machines by nearly 2,000 years, making it seem anachronistic in ancient history.[5]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing if you accept the water is actually holy, then you'd probably think twice about stealing it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

If you steal the holy water and then drink a bunch of it don’t you get Holy powers or something though? Chug the whole thing down then take over the church. Once you have access to all the holy water for free it’s just a matter of time before you become a god yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Wow, didn't know that. That is interesting

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I guess I'm later for breakfast than I thought.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Half of them are from the Bibles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hence the term "Christian name", meaning one's first name.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Good point!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Those are their translated names.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Mike, Paul, Dave too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Except for the name "Madison", which comes from the 1984 Tom Hanks movie Splash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Also surprisingly from ancient Greece:

  • The greeting "'sup"
  • Guys wearing laurel wreaths backwards
  • Tanning salons... but they were just called lawns back then
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

can you elaborate on "sup"?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Lol, it's just a little joke based on the fact that Ancient Greek had both formal and informal greetings, and 'sup is our modern equivalent of an informal greeting. It's quite a stretch, I admit.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

● Anal sex

Wait, that's not surprising

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you know the Ancient Greeks invented anal sex? It only took 200 years before the Romans decided they should try it with women.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Im not suprised tbh

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

Tanning salawns