The Name Saved By Nerds

[@NameExplain]

Hello! I have just come back after a week off for my birthday, happy to be back :D

[@doomi4055]

Patrick plz do Julia

[@kirabowie]

Happy bday, Patrick!🎂

[@RavenFilms]

Happy birthday and welcome back.

[@brianedwards7142]

There's a lot of us born about this time: nine months after the Xmas/New Year break.

[@wendychavez5348]

@@doomi4055, that's my mom's name so I'd vote for Julia in a heartbeat! Patrick, welcome back and I hope you're birthday was very pleasant.

[@wendypierce5621]

In the US, there was a famous/infamous TV psychic called “Miss Cleo.” The actress who portrayed her passed away about 8 years ago, but everyone who has gone through a phase of insomnia and watching TV in the middle of the night remembers her.

[@RavenFilms]

Oh yeah, definitely saw a TON of those commercials! I worked night shifts back then.

[@spddiesel]

Call me nah fer ya free readin'!

[@TheUltimateKing1]

I was expecting he would say something about Miss Cleo 😂😂 She’s by far the most known ‘Cleo’ (beside Cleopatra) for me.

[@rms_himmel]

Cleo is probably on the rise again because all the monster high fans have grown up

[@_volder]

That "cle" meaning "glory (of)" (with the "o" as a connector) also appears at the ends of names like "Heracles" and "Themistocles" (with an "s" as a suffix).

[@agrofindastation]

4:15 This reminds me of the joke, why are there pyramids in Egypt. Because they were too heavy to carry back to England

[@BalkansMike]

I love this Channel so much

[@davea6314]

The late king of all nerds was Gary Gygax, co-inventor of the Dungeons and Dragons RPG. It would have been more fitting if he a nerdy name like Walter or Leonard.

[@DeGuy194]

Walter White a nerd?

[@allanrichardson9081]

The name Cleopatra or Cleo has become popular in the Black American community because of the mistaken belief that she was of Black African descent. In fact, she was the last of the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty; Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and many other lands, but he died young in Babylon while celebrating his victories (either poisoned by one of his associates, or of malaria), leaving no heirs. His generals that were keeping order in his various lands declared themselves kings and, after fighting one another, agreed to divide the empire between them. While some of the post-Alexandrian kings imposed Hellenic culture on their conquered lands (most notably Antiochus IV, of infamy in the Hanukkah story), Ptolemy I and his descendants presented an Egyptian public face, calling themselves Pharaohs, dressing like Egyptian royalty, and publicly worshiping Egyptian deities, in private they were GREEK; they spoke Greek (to their Roman visitors as well), and they married within their ALL GREEK royal family. Some of them even married their SISTERS! And Cleopatra VI Ptolemy was no exception; she married two Romans and had children by both. There is a new Cleopatra movie being made today, and rumors are that they cast Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), an Israeli Jew, in the role.

[@axolotl-guy9801]

Finnally someone mentioned it.

[@Nimmo1492]

One of my cats is called Cleo because she has a triangular tabby patch above one of her eyes that looks like a pyramid

[@kirabowie]

I used to work with someone named Kleopatra. She's Greek and someone else I know who's also Greek said it's a common name in Greece. If I remember correctly that Kleopatra went by the name Tula. I think it's a nickname. Sadly, I can't ask for clarification as it's been a few years since I worked there. 😆

[@waluigi3330]

Fun fact: the REAL cleopatra was actually Greek, not egyptian

[@adriennegormley9358]

@@waluigi3330 So true. She was the last of the Ptolemies, who took over rule of Egypt in the wake of the collapse of Alexander's empire, which was split between his generals. The general Ptolemy was her direct ancestor.

[@kirabowie]

@@waluigi3330 Yup! The Ptolemies were Greeks.

[@helenbaumander3953]

Cleopatra comin' at ya!

[@purplealice]

A lot of artistic motifs of the Art Deco movement derive from ancient Egyptian - the lotus-topped columns and zigzag patterns.

[@kailomonkey]

When you look into the origin of colour names it all points to humans starting with just a name for black and white or dark and light then slowly adding colours in a fairly uniform way. So it's not surprising that yellow and green come from the same root back when. You should totally do a video on colour names with this in mind :)

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

He's already done one on that very subject.

[@rowboat8343]

Carmen as a shortening I Tutankhamen. In our accent the last bit sounds more like Carmen. Cleo seems to be quite popular now. I've come across a few.

[@moyokean]

I hated my name for a long time when I was a kid. I hated hearing it, and especially how it sounded coming from my own mouth. Not to mention people constantly calling me Chloe because they either just did so accidentally or simply couldn't be bothered to learn it correctly. Now in adulthood I love it though, I have always loved being unique and I feel lucky to have a name to match.

[@purplealice]

I once saw the name "Cleopatra" translated as "Glory of the fatherland".

[@axolotl-guy9801]

Ah yes. Patra like patria in Latin.

[@JurassicLion2049]

Part of me now wants to name a daughter Cleopatra

[@brianedwards7142]

Speaking of Penzance: International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on Monday (19 Sept).

[@moyokean]

*video starts* Me: Hey that's my name! 😀

[@adriennegormley9358]

One of the things I like abt MS Worst is the ease of adding diacritical marks. For example, in MS Word, to type the word fiancée, you would do the following: HOld down CTRL Key, then type the accent you wanted, in this case the apostrophe ', then the letter e. And you'd get é. .

[@crazymusicchick]

Cleo was the name of a little girl who went missing then found in November last yr in my state (Australia) big story

[@DaremoTen]

I'm surprised the name Cleophus wasn't mentioned.

[@michaelturner2806]

Another Cleo I remember was Riff Raff's love interest in the cartoon Heathcliff's B stories. A fluffy anthropomorphic cream-colored cat with a feminine body shape, I remember it being very 80s in that the one clothing item she wore was pink leg warmers.

[@purplealice]

Why didn't people start naming their sons Imhotep or Tutankamen?

[@purplealice]

In African-American culture, ancient Egypt was revered as the highest expression of African society. So exotic-sounding Egyptian names became popular.

[@axolotl-guy9801]

Yea but cleopatra was also very greek (look at her family tree) and greeks mostly never use it either.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@axolotl-guy9801 except for Prolemy family which for some reason had every woman named either Cleopatra or Arsinoe. The one with pretty nose that was made famous by Liz was literally Cleopatra the SEVENTH, Philopator... which means, her name was... CoolDaddy 7 LoveDaddy? Pharaohs had SOME rapper names!

[@axolotl-guy9801]

@@KasumiRINA ah thanks for this info

[@pennywaldrip3774]

Singer made an entire line of sewing machines with ancient Egyptian-like decals. Great antiques these days.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

4:46 Or Japanomania in late 19th-century England, which was satirised in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta _The Mikado._

[@Illumisepoolist]

There's also the purple dog from Clifford and one of the Mermaids from H2o.

[@moyokean]

If I had a dollar for every time somebody asked me if my name was short for Cleopatra though 😂😂

[@EmelyPhan]

Cleo could also be the short form of Cleophas/Cleophus. The one with the a (Cleophas) is the name of a character in The Mortal Instruments books series and tv show.

[@shibolinemress8913]

There was also Mary the wife of Cleophas, in the Gospel of John in the Bible.

[@sabercat5490]

Maybe from the name Tutankhamun i guess you can take the Khamun part to make as a name.

[@rdbury507]

"Cleopatra Jones" - movie from 1973.

[@paullatimer9249]

I have met two (completely separate and years apart) women named "Cleo" who thought that they were named after the Greek muse of history, Clio, both unaware that it was spelled with "i", not "e".

[@thomasgeschke9553]

Hey, small thing, but there’s a mistake in dating when Napoleon’s expedition/invasion happened. While the French Revolution is traditionally marked as starting in 1789, Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition didn’t occur until 1798. Napoleon was a little known minor Corsican noble in 1789.

[@axolotl-guy9801]

Indeed

[@zaco-km3su]

Typewriters aren't gone. They're making a comeback. Intelligence services or agencies (US) or corporations or any company that or department that wants to keep a secret use them because they can't be hacked.

[@benjaminprietop]

Don't forget about Foxxy Cleopatra from the Austin Powers movies, played by Beyoncé

[@peterw9006]

4:50 Patrick missed out on the great opportunity to say "Wrestlemania"

[@JediSimpson]

My second born niece is named Cleopatra. She was initially named just Cleo, but my sister was calling her Cleopatra all the time, so she changed her name to Cleopatra. I mainly call her Cleo, though.

[@kailomonkey]

For Tut there's Carmen from GTA IV. Close enough?

[@DaremoTen]

I was expecting this to be about Poindexter. When it comes to nerd associations...

[@KasumiRINA]

I know Dexter but the associations aren't the best ones eh.

[@panelvixen]

Steve Martin's career took off because of Tutankhamun.

[@brianedwards7142]

I'm Gen X. You're a kid to me. 🤣

[@wendychavez5348]

Me too. Gen Xers unite!

[@kingsleyzvikaramba7662]

Gotta upgrade the facial hair on your cartoon icon.

[@sabercat5490]

And the hair

[@EmelyPhan]

Bretman Rock's niece is named Cleo.

[@IgabodDobagi]

Patrick mentioned that we shouldn't use slaves to build things "like the Egyptians" but that's a myth. The Egyptians did not use slave labor to build anything. They had massive teams of professional builders who were free people.

[@dstinnettmusic]

This is an overcorrection. Egypt was a Bronze Age empire, so of course they had slaves, just not to build monuments,

[@alexreid1173]

Ancient Egyptians did have slaves at certain points, but you’re correct that they weren’t used to build the pyramids or anything.

[@IgabodDobagi]

@@dstinnettmusic I never said they didn't have slaves at all. I said they "did not use slave labor to build anything." They certainly had slaves, but slaves were unskilled laborers. Building the pyramids or monuments or even simple stone buildings requires skilled artisans who train for their entire lives.

[@KasumiRINA]

They did use slave labor, and slavery was a thing in Egypt, though not as widespread as in Greece or Rome. They didn't build pyramids though, it was too good of a job with benefits, insurance and healthcare so was done by pro worker "gangs", whose autographs we still can see on the stones.

[@RavenFilms]

😂 Name your kid Tutankhamun (or as autocorrect suggests, Tutankhamen) and call them Tutie for short. Please don’t actually do that.

[@CharlesStearman]

According to Wikipedia, Tutankhamun is the correct spelling but Tutankhamen is how it should be pronounced. He was originally named Tutankhaten (after Aten the sun-disk, which was made the centre of Egyptian religion by his father Akhenaten) but changed it to Tutankhamun on his succession when Egypt's former chief god Amun became dominant again.

[@RavenFilms]

@@CharlesStearman I knew of the name change, but not of the spelling, though, being autocorrect I assumed it was wrong. Thanks for the mini history lesson.

[@KasumiRINA]

Even Tutankhamun wasn't named Tutankhamun as a kid, he was TutankhATEN, but as they canceled (literally, their city Amarna was demolished and statues dismembered) the Akhenaten's religion, they renamed the kid in honor of another sun deity. That's like if you named your kid KardashiElon and now after Musk's crap takes on Ukraine, renamed the lil rascal to KardashiCher or something.

[@KasumiRINA]

Didn't you already made a video about Elizabeth? Cause it's Liz on the cover.

[@Invalid-user13k]

Cleo is a nice name but yeah it's very unheard of for a while

[@moyokean]

I've never met anyone else in my personal life with it. I was the only one all throughout school so I went through a period of not even bothering to write my surname on assignments

[@wesleyhunt7599]

Saw the title and thought the name would be Arya.

[@randyyy2609]

Funny that you did Chloe last week, and Cleo now. The names sound so similar, yet their meanings and origins are so different.

[@moyokean]

I get called Chloe constantly 😂😭 because it's so much more common, a lot of people just default to it instead of Cleo. When I was younger I would just not even bother correcting them.

[@wendychavez5348]

I find the name Cleo much nicer than Chloë. Just sayin'.

[@Evil_Narwhal]

Never heard anyone named Cleo

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Edgar, Norman and Arthur. Try them.

[@ChristoAbrie]

what about the similar sounding name "Chloe/Khloe"?

[@FSMDog]

I think the car didn't help....

[@CharlesStearman]

There is a saying that rules are made for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

[@davidsullivan7290]

Wiff? Monff?

[@aalhard]

What stuff are you saying was made by slaves in Egypt?

[@wendychavez5348]

That's a great shirt! Just sayin'.

[@purplealice]

Patreon does business in Russia, and it's a bit dodgy.