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We need someone brave enough to bring these back (lemmy.nz)
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[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago

What a Nimrod!

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

What makes it worse is Bugs used the name in proper context as an insult.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Good sarcasm does that

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

And we can blame that one on Buggs Bunny.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 15 points 2 months ago

We can blame that on the people who watched it and didn't understand the sarcasm.

[-] justaman123@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

To be fair most of them were children at the time

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

And it's not the most well known bible character.

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile you still probably have a few naming their kid Khaleesi in 2026

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 2 months ago

Apparently Brooklyn was full of toddlers named Sufjan 20 years ago. So there’d be a cohort of twentysomething dudes named Sufjan around these days.

See also: names like Liam and Kylie which were a lot less common before the 90s. Not to mention the girls’ name Madison (from a mermaid in an 80s movie).

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sufjan

Sufjan was big 20 years ago? No that can't be right, that would be... 2006...

ETA: ....And I just pulled my back.

[-] thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app 6 points 2 months ago

I faked my age was 18 for an app yesterday. I put '25th June 2008'.

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I still use 1990 as my fake birth year lol.

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

April 20th 1969

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Illinoise for sure was the soundtrack to a few conceptions

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[-] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

Khaleesi makes me irrationally mad. It's not even her name. Daenerys would be bad enough, but at last you could call them Danny.

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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 31 points 2 months ago

Not to mention Big Bird and Piggy. Completely gone now.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Barney. Himym tried to normalize it.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Does the purple dinosaur mean nothing?!

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago

What's that, Bart and Homer?

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago

I went to school with a Homer, he lived up to the name and he wasn't a Greek poet. I'd never name my child that.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

I went to school with a Homer, he lived up to the name and he wasn't a Greek poet

That's the best insult I've seen this month

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

But then you'd be able to call him "homie"

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Bart is a pretty common name here in the Netherlands (and Belgium).

Homer isn't.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

And Adolf.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 17 points 2 months ago

Damn, my grandad's name was Adolf. He came to the US as a child, and then fought in WWII. I can't imagine the amount of shit he caught in the military back then, but I know he hated it. Nobody who knew him called him by his first name

[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I grew up next to a Kermit who was born in the 1910s or 20s IIRC.

And had a great uncle named homer.

[-] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

My brothers name is Kermit... born before Sesame Street. He's taken a lot of teasing about it over the years but he's never seemed to mind and points out that everyone loves Kermit the Frog so he's not bothered.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Crazy how we never see people named Miss Piggy anymore

[-] raid_dad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

My son was robbed of being named Big Bird.

[-] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Quiet, Piggy.

Left a different kind of mark on that.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

Way more powerful than Donald Duck it seems.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Gaylord

[-] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

I mean, Grover is an amazing name to me. I really like Grover from Percy Jackson, for example

[-] daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Grover Washington Jr. Smooth

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

I think it's a question of comparing how common a name is to how iconic its new use is. Sesame street didn't stop people from naming their kids Oscar. (or The Count /s)

[-] Kittywifclaws@piefed.world 8 points 2 months ago

Better that than Karen.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Alexa, what are some baby names to avoid today?

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 months ago

Donald

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My wife told her dying grandfather Don that she would honour him by taking his name for her yet to be born son. Luckily we had all girls

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 months ago

Nothing changed for Donald... either way you're a clown.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Along the same line, I've met Barbaras but I've never met a Barbie.

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

I've know a couple of Barbies

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

Who was named Elmo before the muppet?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

There was a Saint Elmo at least.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

I think I've seen a movie about his fire.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

And William Golding wrote about a boy called Piggy

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As legendary a badass as Robin/Nightwing is, he's unfortunately still a Dick.

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Fun fact, the Roosevelt Kermit helped put us into the situation that exists in Iran today.

[-] expect_nothing@leminal.space 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There was an old guy with the first name "Adolf" at my parents' church when I was a kid in the 1970s.

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

My childhood doctor was named Kermit.

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