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   Ricki Christmas Evil Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 11:40:58 JST Ricki Christmas Evil Tarr

   What is it like for guys named David, Michael, and John? Everywhere you go like 3 other people have your name. Do you all have a secret club?

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     Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 11:40:57 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

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     @RickiTarr@beige.party I'm a "Joe".
     
     But I urge strangers to call me "Joseph".
     
     I'm sure the reason is obvious.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:47:25 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Cavyherd

     @cavyherd @RickiTarr My cousin from MN is a David too. I wonder if this is a particularly MN problem, where MN was heavily settled by Scandinavian Lutherans with a history of giving males biblical names. I've got a common biblical name myself and a fairly common English last name. There is actually at least one other person in my town with the same firstname/lastname and we occasionally get each other's stuff.

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     Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:47:26 JST Cavyherd

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     @RickiTarr

     The Minneapolis Science Fiction Society (MinnStF) & its convention, has a long-standing policy: The right to freedom of speach does not include the right to shout David in a crowded party. I did once, & four people turned around.

     Every year at Minicon, they have a photo session for the League of Super Davids. One year I attended, the photo included 47 people, one of them a woman (whose surname was David).

     There was an APA for years called APA-David. All authors had the name David.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:58:55 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • RolloTreadway

     @RolloTreadway @RickiTarr

     No joke. You've got Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Sir Thomas More.

     Just finished Season Two and Mark Rylance is so good in it. Can't wait to see him again in Season Three ;)

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     RolloTreadway (rollotreadway@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:58:56 JST RolloTreadway

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     @RickiTarr One of the most remarkable things about Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is that she managed to make a coherent story, despite the fact that all the male characters are called Thomas, Edward or Henry, and all the female characters are Elizabeth, Anne or Mary.

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 01:12:27 JST Rocketman

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     • Sunanda

     @Theorem_Poem @RickiTarr The same works in Spain and Italy if you yell "Maria!" - across all the generations

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     Sunanda (theorem_poem@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 01:12:28 JST Sunanda

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     @RickiTarr Rumour has it that if you see a crowd of Indian millennials, you can yell "Rahul!" and at least 4 men will turn around.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 01:13:25 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • RolloTreadway

     @RolloTreadway @RickiTarr I really admire the way they stuck the ending, too. Pitch perfect.