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gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

Sorry Madison. Or you're welcome?

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Sorry Madison. Or you're welcome?

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gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago
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  • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Yes, that’s literally what wikipedia says:

    Madison is also used as a given name. It has become popular for girls in recent decades. Its rise is generally attributed to the 1984 release of the film Splash

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_(name)

  • Sundray@lemmus.org
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    There is a character named Madison 1964 film “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies” (later shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000), but he’s a boy, so I don’t know if this is relevant.

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      I mean it makes sense, after all the name isn’t “Madidaughter”

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        Ok, dad

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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          I think you mean “Madifather”

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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            You mean Mad Father? (Edit, this, too, was a “dad joke”, if it wasn’t clear lolol)

            My comment was meant to point the fact that this was a pretty dope dad joke lol

            • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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              Thanks, but I know, I was just continuing it :D

    • falidorn@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Only tangentially but thank you for your service.

      • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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        This is my favorite tiny internet interaction.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    Imogen is from a Shakespeare play, but it’s actually supposed to be Innogen but the first prints had a printing mistake and the name Imogen came into existence and the script with the error was reprinted for centuries. So everyone who is named Imogen is named after a typo.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      I love this fact. I’m going to accept it without doing any verification!

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    James Madison was the 4th president of the United States. Just saying.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      Did his mom see this movie?

      • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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        Apparently… Since Madison wasn’t a name before Splash in 1984.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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          Madison, Wisconsin was Tedsville until Splash; it was so popular there, they changed the name of the city.

        • Drew@sopuli.xyz
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          Madison wasn’t a given name before the movie

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    https://engaging-data.com/baby-name-visualizer/?n=madison&sex=b&data=n

    Checks out.

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    Tiffany was similarly not used as a first name until Tiffany & Co, and particularly Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the 1958 novel/1961 movie.

    The “Tiffany” from Tiffany & Co was a last name, and that owner was one of a handful of Tiffany’s in the world at the time of the founding.

    • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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      This is actually a myth. Tiffany as a name dates back before Shakespeare. The more you look into Tiffany as a name, thinking it’s modern, the more you’ll find it just fell out of favor for a while.

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        It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.

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      CGP Grey did research on the name Tiffany: https://youtu.be/9LMr5XTgeyI (8 min long video)

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        Obligatory [email protected] mention!

        Edit: damn it, has the toast instance gone toast?

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          Looks like it’s fine, it’s just been quiet.

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    The name “Kayleigh” was invented by Marillion in 1985

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      Keighleigh

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    Fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they had to make a bunch of changes involving CGI hair because it turns out with modern picture quality you can see a quite a lot more of Daryl Hannah than they originally intended.

    • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml
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      Less fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they for no justifiable reason started splicing and cutting the original version to add CGI to censor things out of the movie for “modern sensibilities” and then sold it as the same product without any warning.

      I am much less afraid of the authoritarian who would ban 1984 from being read, and much more afraid of those authoritarians who take it to heart and take out all the “controversial” things and leave a completely declared and neutered 1984+ on the shelf.

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        Can someone use plain words to explain what happened here? Were pubes visible or something and they CGI’ed them out?

        Never heard of this movie or anything about it but trying to piece it together from context clues in this thread is very confusing.

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          I just looked it up: Apparently there was a scene where the actresses butt was visible, which got covered by CGI hair extensions.

          However, the movie has since gotten a 4K remaster on D+, which does not censor da booty.

  • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    What about Madisynn?

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      I spell Madisynn with a Q U

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      Wow, two N’s, and one Y, but it was not where I thought it would be.

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    What about Madison SG?

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      It was masculine before the film

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    James Madison and the presumed Madison family would beg to differ.

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      Was James Madison a Japanese woman? If not, your example doesn’t apply. We’re not talking about surnames or men’s names here.

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