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		People with names beginning with D live shorter lives, have life long poor self-esteem, and are born to poor parents. Drew Curtis says goddamnit so much (dailymail.co.uk)		164
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Elvis_Bogart

2010-01-03 11:13:38 PM

Are they being Darwined?

Norad

2010-01-03 11:30:49 PM

David Letterman

Donald Trump

Dave Thomas

Davis Spade

Yep, off the top of my head that's a whole laundry list of losers right there.

Arthur Jumbles

2010-01-03 11:38:21 PM

Norad: David Letterman

Donald Trump

Dave Thomas

Davis Spade

Yep, off the top of my head that's a whole laundry list of losers right there.

Actually..... they all have pretty serious emotional problems.... I'd hate to be trapped in a room with all of them overnight.

/Arthur for the win!

cbuhler

2010-01-03 11:40:09 PM

This is on the same level of retard as numerologists. Probably become important to our society.

Flying Spaghetti Monster help us all.

oi_piss_me_off

2010-01-03 11:44:23 PM

FTA Proof? Adam lived until the grand old age of 930, according to the Bible

...now i'm totally convinced.

Last One Left

2010-01-04 12:05:33 AM

This psycho-babble greatly amuses Darryl Strawberry

Kyosuke

2010-01-04 12:26:31 AM

Arthur Jumbles: /Arthur for the win!

I'll alert the media.

markie_farkie

2010-01-04 12:34:48 AM

If your middle name is Wayne or Lee you're more likely to end up a serial killer or other criminal.

Classic Middle Name (new window)

thisdaydreamer

2010-01-04 12:47:19 AM

thinks this is bullshiat

Bonanza Jellybean

2010-01-04 01:13:25 AM

So that explains it.

/Demian
//named after the Hesse book

TheHappyCanadian

2010-01-04 01:14:29 AM

welp, sucks to be a Dennis right now :/

dcigary

2010-01-04 01:14:48 AM

So, my cousin "Dee Dee" should already be dead?

7wolf

2010-01-04 01:15:29 AM

Well... I'm not dead yet. I do go by my middle name (James) though, since people recognize that as an actual name and I don't have to spell it out each time.

louiedog

2010-01-04 01:15:55 AM

Apologies if any Dustins are in here, but there were 3 of them in my school and I don't think any of them graduated. They all had redneck parents, too.

Repo Man

2010-01-04 01:16:17 AM

Is it too late to change my name? Probably wouldn't help now though. The damage has been done.

Wrong_Intentions

2010-01-04 01:18:36 AM

As a real-life Darren, I wanna be disturbed by this but, meh. Just me get screwed again, typical.

/As how bizarre that name is otherwise...

drjekel_mrhyde

2010-01-04 01:19:19 AM

My name is Adrian so fark off you Degenerates

cedarpark

2010-01-04 01:21:20 AM

Darryl and Darryl would like a word with the author.

What in The

2010-01-04 01:21:49 AM

Brother's name: Damon
Sister's name: Deena

My name: no 'd' anywhere.

I'm still so farked.

Aidan

2010-01-04 01:21:50 AM

*shrug* Humans look for patterns in chaos.
I could just as easily point out that the 4 [name redacted]s I have come in contact with were all high-strung, self-centered and aggressive. Does that constitute a useful pattern? No.

No_One_Special

2010-01-04 01:22:56 AM

My name starts with D, and I like it. Best damn letter in the alphabet!

Of course, I was a straight-A student also.

This study didn't take many factors into consideration, and the assumption that people unconciously associate their first initial with the meanings of letter grades is.... a desperate running leap of reasoning at best.

LargeCanine

2010-01-04 01:23:22 AM

Arthur Jumbles: Norad: David Letterman

Donald Trump

Dave Thomas

Davis Spade

Yep, off the top of my head that's a whole laundry list of losers right there.

Actually..... they all have pretty serious emotional problems.... I'd hate to be trapped in a room with all of them overnight.

/Arthur for the win!

Especially Dave Thomas, he died years ago.

/braaaaains!

wraith10

2010-01-04 01:23:24 AM

I wonder how that holds for countries that don't use D grades, here if you got below a C- they gave you an I..(incomplete)

Doran

2010-01-04 01:23:54 AM

drjekel_mrhyde: My name is Adrian so fark off you Degenerates

So's mine, dude. *high five*

/feels sorry for his brother, Dan
//actually, no he doesn't

1derful

2010-01-04 01:24:48 AM

King David, Donald Rumsfield, Dennis Hopper and Duncan Heinz would disagree.

radioman_

2010-01-04 01:25:05 AM

I'm alphabet irrelevant, I guess, in all my iterations. I've had two legal names, neither of which began with A, B, C, or D. And I'm not dead.

texdent

2010-01-04 01:25:27 AM

This is going to suck for my nephew Dylan. He can always go by his middle name.

KidneyStone

2010-01-04 01:25:27 AM

The research by psychologists at Wayne State University in Detroit examined the lifespans of more than 10,000 professional athletes, doctors and lawyers born between 1875 and 1930.

That's certainly representative of current demographics.

God-is-a-Taco

2010-01-04 01:25:32 AM

And, they claim, it could all be down to a subconscious link to school grades, where A represents high achievement and D near failure.

:)
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cedarpark

2010-01-04 01:25:58 AM

Died at 69, adopted (never knew parents), but brought us SO MUCH BACON!

Fuller

2010-01-04 01:26:59 AM

shenanigans

2PanMan

2010-01-04 01:27:08 AM

So apparently I'm a low-self esteem serial killer that will not live to the average life expectancy.

2010 sucks so far.

EL_FABREZ

2010-01-04 01:33:18 AM

Are they still hung up on Princess Di?

Dumb-Ass-Monkey

2010-01-04 01:35:33 AM

FTFA - Why Ant will live longer than Dec... A first name beginning with D 'could wipe 10 years off your life'

y'know, if my name were "Dec", I think I'd have low self esteem too.

(of course, my name is Erich, and I have pretty low self esteem already...)

xelnia

2010-01-04 01:36:03 AM

Correlation vs. causation, so on and so forth...yawn...

stephen74

2010-01-04 01:37:38 AM

Zig Ziglar objects strongly to this study.

bikerific

2010-01-04 01:37:49 AM

It's just that all the Daryls bring the average down.

Ego edo infantia cattus

2010-01-04 01:38:24 AM

I smell a science failure.
they didn't mention whether or not people whose names begin with the letter F die sooner than those who have D as a first initial. I'm going to guess that it's because the data didn't stack up with their B.S. story.

settle down meow

2010-01-04 01:39:04 AM

Thats right! Its magic._{its not that poor people have poor children who cant afford to eath as healthy, work tougher jobs, have less of an education and make less money causing lower self esteem and these parents happen to like names that start with 'D'.} Its the letter 'D' that does it.

freddie425

2010-01-04 01:39:08 AM

Dave Thomas was the man! Too bad they got rid of the first wendy's in downtown columbus years ago

/D

VonBumpus

2010-01-04 01:41:21 AM