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1d ago

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

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

Also Tiffany, Dennis, Squirrel, and Jerome
- Tiffany I recently found out is old, but Squirrel?? Who's named Squirrel?
  
  Squirrel is.

Also surprisingly from ancient Greece:
The greeting "'sup"
Guys wearing laurel wreaths backwards
Tanning salons... but they were just called lawns back then
- Tanning salawns
- ● Anal sex
  Wait, that's not surprising
  
  Did you know the Ancient Greeks invented anal sex? It only took 200 years before the Romans decided they should try it with women.
- can you elaborate on "sup"?
  
  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.

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

Also Tiffany which can be argued to originate from Theophania.
- Tiffany is the epitome of this phenomenon, to the point that it's named the Tiffany Problem
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Problem
  
  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]
  
  Wow, didn't know that. That is interesting
- I guess I'm later for breakfast than I thought.

The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters
- Except for the name "Madison", which comes from the 1984 Tom Hanks movie Splash.
  
  Fun fact: CGP Grey only makes videos on topics ending in "on."
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_(name)
  
  Its just a surname used as a first name, one of America's cuter, more demure methods of cultural appropriation.
  
  And also the name "Cameron", which comes from 2012 series Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
- Half of them are from the Bibles.
  
  Hence the term "Christian name", meaning one's first name.
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

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

It was Yah-son, though, not Dgay-son. Probably.
- the gay son? Story checks out

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