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KoldPT posted:Novas Oportunidades My favorite bit about this map is the Jennifer/Jessica divide in '84/'85 because I knew a pair of twins in high school who were named Jennifer and Jessica, who were born in '84 and Jennifer was the slightly older of the two. I like to imagine the few minutes between their births as the exact boundary between the two eras.
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What happened in 1970 that made Jennifer so popular? It seems like it has to have been a change in how they counted or something for it to change so drastically all at once.
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Oct 20, 2013 02:36
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Badger of Basra posted:What happened in 1970 that made Jennifer so popular? It seems like it has to have been a change in how they counted or something for it to change so drastically all at once. Supposedly it was this film.
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Oct 20, 2013 02:40
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computer parts posted:Supposedly it was this film. Man, Al Gore has a lot to answer for.
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Oct 20, 2013 02:56
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computer parts posted:Supposedly it was this film. Film and TV probably have a massive role in these overall. Emma seemed to explode out of nowhere around mid-2000s and that's around the same time Rachel and Ross had the kid with a same name in Friends.
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Oct 20, 2013 03:20
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Skeleton Jelly posted:Film and TV probably have a massive role in these overall. Emma seemed to explode out of nowhere around mid-2000s and that's around the same time Rachel and Ross had the kid with a same name in Friends. I was thinking it was the Harry Potter movies & Emma Watson. Because honestly who would name a kid Hermione?
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Oct 20, 2013 03:22
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Paradoxish posted:This is a super interesting map, and for some reason it's really surprising to me that naming trends actually follow patterns like this. I particularly like how Jessica and Ashley fought a desperate struggle for dominance after Jennifer's 1970s reign of terror, only to be stabbed in the back by Emily once the late 90s rolled around.
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What is very interesting to me about that is the fact that, since the end of the domination of Jennifer, there has been no name that has held sway over the entire country for an extended period of time the way Jennifer had. Instead, the names seem to proliferate and decay, with regional blocs rising, expanding, but leaving room for other regional blocks to take their place.
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Oct 20, 2013 03:51
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EvanSchenck posted:That's the case at the federal level but not at the state level. As an Iowan, my sense is that the party that refused to accept the non-partisan reapportionment system would be punished by the electorate. In any case, Iowa might be home to some firebrands like Steve King but it's very close to 50-50 D:R, and the state-level parties are tend to be moderate. The main leader of the reactionary movement in Iowa is a guy named Bob Vander Plaats, and he's tried to run for governor three different times, each time getting stuffed in the primary by a more moderate candidate with better ties to the business establishment. Oh, awesome. I can imagine that state politics would be way less prone to shutdown tactics, because of people feeling 'closer' to the politics/government, while also having a greater connection to their representatives as opposed to abstract parties. The Iowa system sounds really cool when that's taken into account.
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DrSunshine posted:What is very interesting to me about that is the fact that, since the end of the domination of Jennifer, there has been no name that has held sway over the entire country for an extended period of time the way Jennifer had. Instead, the names seem to proliferate and decay, with regional blocs rising, expanding, but leaving room for other regional blocks to take their place. I bet that's because media is much more diversified now. You don't really have the same three/four TV channels everyone watches. Even big shows are spread out among broadcast and cable channels. Of course, it's all owned by less companies now, but it feels so much more wide.
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thecolorpurple posted:A great post. Thank you for writing that out, it was very informative. I've always wanted to get a better perspective on the Alsace-Lorraine issue and I think you did a fantastic job of summarizing the region's history. SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Oct 20, 2013 |
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Oct 20, 2013 10:21
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Skeleton Jelly posted:Film and TV probably have a massive role in these overall. Emma seemed to explode out of nowhere around mid-2000s and that's around the same time Rachel and Ross had the kid with a same name in Friends. I kinda expected Jennifer to undergo a minor resurrection as Friends gained on popularity. Or at least few Rachels / Monicas to appear.
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Oct 20, 2013 13:50
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computer parts posted:I like that you can tell exactly when Twilight got popular. You can also tell when Friends was In its last two seasons by the number of Emma's that pop up. Edit; beaten badly, few new posts I didn't see.
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I'm surprised Emma is so popular, it's always struck me as a name that old ladies have, like Delores or Agnes.
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Uh, Japan, everyone knows our island is a witch riding a pig, you can't just trample over our heritage like that! 
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univbee posted:I think Montreal is too major of a Canadian city with way too much going on Canada-wide to ever truly split off. But it could be worse, at least you're not visiting Dahala Khagrabari (I think they were previously mentioned in this thread). They're the world's only counter-counter enclave, a Matryoshka doll of border shenanigans (first you go to Bangladesh, and then to an Indian enclave within that, which itself contains a smaller Bangladeshi enclave, which finally has the Indian Dahala Khagrabari): Yo dawg I heard you like enclaves... Whorelord fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Oct 20, 2013 |
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Oct 20, 2013 18:10
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Reveilled posted:Uh, Japan, everyone knows our island is a witch riding a pig, you can't just trample over our heritage like that! What's Northern Ireland then?
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Oct 20, 2013 18:38
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The ripped off head of the Ireland teddybear
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To what should we attribute Lesotho's lack of immortals?
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AKA Pseudonym posted:To what should we attribute Lesotho's lack of immortals? AIDS is a huge problem in Lesotho.
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Oct 20, 2013 21:30
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How the hell does "Jennifer" take over like that?
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Baloogan posted:How the hell does "Jennifer" take over like that? There was no big cause like a famous woman named Jennifer. It just sort of caught on as a trend which gained more momentum as Jennifer-density intensified. County-by-county support for the top 25 NCAA football teams. 
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Civilized Fishbot posted:County-by-county support for the top 25 NCAA football teams. If my county favors Ohio State, it's because 90% favors a school not listed and the remaining 10% is a hodgepodge of a bunch of teams with Ohio State being the greatest. We've been top 25 other years. 
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Civilized Fishbot posted:There was no big cause like a famous woman named Jennifer. It just sort of caught on as a trend which gained more momentum as Jennifer-density intensified. I like that Oregon is more popular than Stanford, USC, or UCLA in California. Also that the colors are really hard to tell apart.
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Dr. Tough posted:I like that Oregon is more popular than Stanford, USC, or UCLA in California. Also that the colors are really hard to tell apart. Yeah, I can't tell if UCLA or Florida is popular in the Northeast and Appalachia.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:There was no big cause like a famous woman named Jennifer. It just sort of caught on as a trend which gained more momentum as Jennifer-density intensified. We just beat LSU and we'll be back in the top 25 before too long too, as the rest of the schedule is Mizzou and a bunch of clown teams. I like how in these maps Issaquena County is always unaccounted for, because there are like 200 people in the whole thing.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:County-by-county support for the top 25 NCAA football teams. I feel bad for the schools that aren't even the most popular in the counties in which they are located. jzilla fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Oct 21, 2013 03:14
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jb7 posted:I feel bad for the schools that aren't even the most popular in the counties in which they are located. Keep in mind that's of ranked teams, if it was a more recent poll like this week you'd probably see Texas Tech in the West Texas/Eastern New Mexico area.
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Dr. Tough posted:I like that Oregon is more popular than Stanford, USC, or UCLA in California. Also that the colors are really hard to tell apart. California, at least in my experience, doesn't care at all about College football, so the local teams get little love. I still don't understand its mechanics at all, and never have. We're much more into baseball, football, or basketball.
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jb7 posted:I feel bad for the schools that aren't even the most popular in the counties in which they are located. Northwestern has probably earned a pass, because its campus is in the same county as Chicago.
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computer parts posted:Keep in mind that's of ranked teams, if it was a more recent poll like this week you'd probably see Texas Tech in the West Texas/Eastern New Mexico area. Of course. I'm talking about TCU, Northwestern, Oregon State, and maybe Clemson? jzilla fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Oct 21, 2013 03:29
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Teams drop in and out of the top 25 every week and that map's at least 4 weeks out of date.
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Oct 21, 2013 03:34
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Just like in the NFL map that was posted in hear a while back Montana needs to get its poo poo together.
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stereobreadsticks posted:Just like in the NFL map that was posted in hear a while back Montana needs to get its poo poo together. Montana is very organized compared to Illinois, which just goes nuts once U of I goes out the window.
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DarkCrawler posted:What's Northern Ireland then? One of the weirdest things about that map, though, is that it's got Manchester roughly where Leeds is.
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stereobreadsticks posted:Just like in the NFL map that was posted in hear a while back Montana needs to get its poo poo together. We just want the Bobcats to be ranked highly enough to make this map 
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Skeleton Jelly posted:Film and TV probably have a massive role in these overall. Emma seemed to explode out of nowhere around mid-2000s and that's around the same time Rachel and Ross had the kid with a same name in Friends. It seems to me that names in media actually follow current naming trends rather than precede. Emma had been steadily gaining in popularity since 1978. The popularity of Isabella has much more to do with the increasing Hispanic population than with "Twilight". On a similar note, Jacob has been the most popular name for boys since 1999, long before "Twilight". Going back to Jennifer, the name had been gaining in popularity since at least 1938, and was already the 3rd most popular name the year before "Love Story" came out. http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/
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