• naticus@lemmy.world
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      Coincidentally I just learned where the name Jon Arbuckle came from. Jim Davis had heard the name of Yuban Coffee’s founder, John Arbuckle, and thought it sounded funny and distinct enough to base his comic around. I only found this out because of a video explaining the joke on “Airplane!” about the wife having an inner monologue that “Jim never had a second cup of coffee at home…” which was a well known Yuban commercial at the time.

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    I did my sixth grade presidents project on James Garfield. I just liked the name, I didn’t realize that I had picked the absolute easiest president to write a report on. You can sum it up in one sentence. Garfield was elected president, promptly dies.

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    I mean, the dude does know magic. Are we sure he isn’t actually just president James Garfield, kept alive all these years by dark sorcery? History records President Garfield of dying by an assassin’s bullet. But what if it was just an elaborate way for James to fake his own death, so he could step into a younger identity? 😆

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    i.e. one of his sixteen (but possibly fewer) second great grandparents is James Garfield. I think it’s easy to have a little tunnel vision when talking about more distant ancestors.

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      Is one of your 16 great+ grandparents a president? Are you contributing something to the world millions have enjoyed?

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        Guessing from the hostile tone of your response that my own tone was badly conveyed. I was just making a general observation that we seem to automatically treat relatively distant ancestors with the same significance as grandparents. I do the same.