I guess you wouldn't really notice if there were an uptick in boys named Tommy and Billy You would notice an uptick in boys named Visionhttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1364677604045971457 …
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @arthur_affect
One of my favorite factoids (that I havent bothered verify) was that “Samantha” was an uncommon, exotic name until Bewitched came out and it got so trendy we just see it as normal now, which I heard in response to people melting down over names like “Khaleesi” gaining popularity.
4 replies 3 retweets 32 likes -
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @RalfThePowerful
"Madison" wasn't a name for girls at all until Splash, the WHOLE JOKE in Splash is that it's a wildly incongruous name for a woman that she took off a street sign Now thanks to that movie's popularity the joke is completely lost
4 replies 4 retweets 44 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @RalfThePowerful
see also "Ford Prefect," which seems like a nice inconspicuous name if one has skimped a bit on preparatory research and mistaken cars for the planet's dominant life form.
1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes -
Replying to @ladelfa @RalfThePowerful
I mentioned before that if you were rewriting Hitchhiker's Guide from scratch today then Ford's name would obviously be P.T. Cruiser
1 reply 4 retweets 39 likes -
Pete for short Or I dunno maybe the dominant species would've changed Maybe he'd be named Samsung Galaxy (Sam)
2 replies 1 retweet 15 likes -
If going on numbers on the road worldwide, he'd probably have called himself Toyota Corolla.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Well the joke in the original was that the Ford Prefect was an uncommon and kind of shitty car
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @nralbers and
Like he wanted to fly under the radar so he didn't even pick a good model of car
2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
I read it as being a reasonably common, if shitty car in the UK at the time.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes - Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.