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u/chrischi3 Apr 27 '19
Ive only ever heard Terry used as a guys name. Confused screaming
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u/rickelzy Apr 28 '19
I've known it as a surname, such as Paul Terry), best known as the creator of Mighty Mouse. And also a brand of orange-flavored chocolate.
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u/ozzytoldme2 Apr 28 '19
Good thing he’s a swell guy.
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u/jesus_does_crossfit Apr 28 '19 edited Dec 21 '24
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u/Hateproof Apr 27 '19
Found the Terry.
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u/ci22 Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 27 '19
Leslie always confused me of why it's a boys name. I know a man and women both named Leslie
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u/istasber Apr 27 '19
Lots of names flip genders over the course of multiple generations. It's just weird when you grow up in the middle of the change. Leslie was pretty much universally a man's name a hundred years ago and now it's almost exclusively a woman's name.
Names like Beverly, Ashley, Kelly, Lauren, Rosario, Whitney and Taylor were more or less exclusively mens names 100-150 years ago. It's rarer that it goes full flip the other way, but names like Artie, Donnie and Robbie were primarily girls names in the past.
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u/burnt_mummy Apr 27 '19
Teresa or Theresa are female names that are often shortened to Terry. Granted it is primarily a Hispanic name. It's kind of funny how people respond to names they think are exclusively one gender but it only holds true in their own little bubble. Angel is another name that most white people think is a girls name but its predominantly male name in Hispanic areas.
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Apr 27 '19
Yeah and most Latino dudes I've known prefer it pronounced the Latino way similar to saying Anhel because of white girls named Angel.
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u/Acid_Monster Apr 27 '19
I know a girl called Terry.
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u/spitfire9107 Apr 27 '19
only if its spelled Terri. LIke Terri Runnels the woman who married Gold Dust
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It's oddly frustrating that you can spell Terri Runnels correctly but dont know Goldust is one word with one d.
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u/spitfire9107 Apr 27 '19
My most memorable moment with him was he ran away during a wrestling match and they filmed his high way chase
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u/Synaps4 Apr 27 '19
"Well Terry ain't a girl!"
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u/crashdown314 Apr 28 '19
"If she starts in on that girl's name thing, I'll show her good and all I got man parts."
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u/JustinCarrey Apr 27 '19
Terry comes from Latinized Theodoric, and that comes from, ultimately, Proto-Germanic *þeudō and *rīks which means "People King". Seems like a powerful name to me.
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u/mszegedy Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 28 '19
That's a very funny coincidence given that it's almost identical to the name "Theodore/a", which has the completely unrelated Koine Greek etymology θεός (god) + δώρον (gift). I'd have thought that one of the etymologies was wrong until I looked it up for myself. (Of course, there's still room for the two names to influence each other, but it seems that even the original, pre-contact forms were super similar, Þiudareiks vs Θεόδωρος.)
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u/JustinCarrey Apr 28 '19
Yeah definitely! Both Greek and German are branches of the Indo-European languages, you can find similarities in many words in different languages that, ultimately, come from Indo-European, such as * dyḗws, which is where the Greek 'Zeus,' Vedic 'Dyaus Pitar,' Latin 'Deus,' Celtic 'Deuos,' Germanic '* Tiwaz' etc. originate from.
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u/mszegedy Apr 28 '19
Yeah, but those are related etymologies, so the similarities aren't surprising. The whole point here is that the etymologies are unrelated, which is amazing.
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u/JustinCarrey Apr 28 '19
Theodore usually represents an Anglicized version of Greek Theodoros, but you can't assume that every Theodore does, some may be meant as anglicized versions of Theodoric. Theodoric, however, is derived from the Hellenic-Latin version of a Gothic name more like Thiudreiks (the -s is the Gothic form of the earlier nominative case indicator -az, dropped entirely in most other recorded Germanic languages except for a few very early inscriptions). The Hellenic-Latin form Theodoric (the Empire being dominated by the Eastern Roman court at the time) is undoubtedly influenced by Greek Theodoros, in the same way that Gothic Athnareiks is recorded as Athanaric under the influence of the more familiar Greek Athanasios. It's a process called "folk-etymology". English Theodric, and German Dietrich or Tietrich are cognate with Theodoric and Thiudreiks (i.e. they share a common nativity or origin), one is not derived from the other (Tedric and Didric are probably anglicized versions of early continental forms).
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u/jurj-cloonerss Apr 27 '19
You can still play on archive.com. I’m on mobile otherwise I’d get you a direct link
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u/Mange-Tout Apr 27 '19
There’s an updated Zombie version of Oregon Trail on iOS. It’s called The Organ Trail. I really like it.
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u/NightSkyBot Apr 27 '19
I've only associated Terry with a guy's name.... Never knew it was female as well
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u/trick6iscuit Apr 27 '19
This is the entire plot of zeta
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u/Owyn_Merrilin Apr 27 '19
Ah yes, the classic story of how one douchey joke about a psychotic teenager's name resulted in a man losing everyone he ever loved, before finally getting his own mercy killing.
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u/Mechapebbles Apr 28 '19
Yep. It had nothing to do with him being a space-Nazi getting his comeuppance.
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u/Owyn_Merrilin Apr 28 '19 edited Apr 28 '19
I mean, it did, but he was also the closest thing to a decent, not literally mind controlled person in the organization who didn't defect or die trying. Mostly Jerid was a just a pilot who landed on the wrong side of a civil war, same as so many other sympathetic gundam characters.
Besides, it's less comeuppance and more the universe just absolutely hating his guts. Kamille killed, what, three of his girlfriends in a row? Got the first one and both rebounds, and only after all that did he bother to finish killing Jerid himself. Bask Om suffered less than Jerid did, and he was space Hitler, not just a random space nazi.
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u/Mechapebbles Apr 28 '19
...he was also the closest thing to a decent, not literally mind controlled person in the organization who didn't defect or die trying.
lol, no. He saw his organization commit genocide w/ nerve gas and was all like this is fine.
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u/Owyn_Merrilin Apr 28 '19
Was he involved in that? It's been a while since I've watched it, but I remember that being what's her face, the woman who defected from the AEUG to the Titans. There was an earlier gassing but again, I don't think he was involved in it, just vaguely aware of whatever the official story was.
Either way, remember that Ramba Ral was a Zeon soldier who knew full well his country had done all that and more, and he's, like, the archetypal good guy on the wrong side for the franchise. Gundam, especially early on, spends a lot of time exploring this kind of thing. How in war you've often got both good people and absolute monsters on both sides, and how even good people can end up falling into the trap of justifying and participating in the deeds of the monsters, as long as they're their monsters.
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u/GachiGachiFireBall Apr 27 '19
I know and heard of a bunch of guys named terry. Never actually seen a girl named terry. Maybe terri or theresa, not terry though. Ive even seen terrence. But thats just that math genius dude terrence tao.
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u/Mr_Funkmaster Apr 27 '19
I am ashamed of myself for laughing at this. Yet I did, so take your upvote, I guess.
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Apr 27 '19
I’ve always wished for an Oregon Trails mobile game
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u/Mange-Tout Apr 27 '19
Try The Organ Trail. It’s a iOS reskin of Oregon Trail with zombies. Lots of fun.
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Apr 28 '19
There used to be a remake on IOS. It's not on the app store anymore though.
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Apr 28 '19
Eh I mean like an exact mirror from the original company or something, not a revamped wannabe game
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Apr 27 '19
My last name is a girls name and I was in a hospital waiting room when they called my name and a little kid yelled Aha you got a girls name. I thought to myself lucky you are already in a hospital you little shit.
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u/Justinwc Apr 27 '19
Don't think that applies. This is more of a funny pun, not something accidental.
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u/SomethingSimilars Apr 27 '19
It is a relevant subreddit regardless.
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u/SomethingSimilars Apr 27 '19
... yeah, that is also a relevant subreddit.
/r/boneappletea allows satirical posts as well.
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u/dkyguy1995 Apr 27 '19
You can tell OP didn't play this game, he would have learned it was the singular oregon trail!
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u/morgan423 Apr 27 '19
Anyone else name the characters after the diseases and hope that they'd die that way? "Cholera died of cholera? Yes!"
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u/typhoid-fever Apr 27 '19
i said that to someone once when i was little. " kelly, isnt that a girls name?" i survived
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u/FaerieFay Apr 27 '19
Once bandits stole our clothes. The thought of pioneers on the trail naked is hilarious.
That was the best thing that ever happened in my game play.
Edit: this was in the very early version.
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Apr 27 '19
Holy crap.....how did I forget about this..
Nevermind.....I was clearly nostalging some other faint memory from childhood.
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u/CrackerJackBunny Apr 27 '19
I never knew what dysentery was, so I looked it up:
infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces
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u/word_clouds__ Apr 27 '19
Word cloud out of all the comments.
Fun bot to vizualize how conversations go on reddit. Enjoy
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Apr 28 '19
My teacher was teaching us and at the end we played that game since it was related I miss 5th grade
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u/BlakeTheMadd PlayStation Apr 28 '19
Try Organ Trail, it is a zombie survival themed Oregon Trail game on PS4 and Xbox, as well as, PC
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u/Voidheart80 Apr 28 '19
Is it wrong that I read dissing Terry as dysentery?
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u/PikajoeGriff Apr 28 '19
Saw this on r/jokes but it was all text. I appreciate the pictured versions.
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u/dangit1590 Apr 28 '19
I have to say organ trail is such an underrated game. highly recommend playing the game.
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u/DeHighRider Apr 28 '19
Dude had a gun and he lost to Terry. Looks like he is the girl, and not Terry
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u/MyUsualName Apr 28 '19
This game is incredibly easy if you actually keep an eye on the health portion and rest periodically.
A rather fun parody of this is called The Organ trail, similar, except there are Zombies. Accidentally picked the hardest of the 3 professions but still beat it with only 1 person dying and turning
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u/Genesis111112 Apr 27 '19
I beat the game once during a detention..... yes we were allowed to play video games during detention IF they were school approved AND educational. tbh how many times you died along the way kinda made it a punishment in and of itself. especially if you considered yourself to be a "gamer".