Why Do People Like Name-Dropping?

[@NameExplain]

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[@Donut-Eater]

Please do Chicago and it's nicknames!

[@noahdesrs]

Pffft. Name-dropping of sponsors. Brag.

[@Diamond_Dude30]

Dante's Inferno is pretty much a massive name-drop

[@manatarmsbrown736]

Just wondering why did you you chose Blackpool to mention?

[@TotoDG]

-Excuse me, David? -Yes? -You dropped your name. Here, let me pick it up for you. -Thank you! But how did you know my name? -Like I said, I saw you drop it. -Ah.

[@poochthedog1]

Lmao

[@bingbongjoel6581]

Clever

[@steele_heart77]

I serve the Soviet Onion.

[@salvat3735]

For Stalin.

[@sofia.eris.bauhaus]

- Excuse me, David? - Who? - You dropped your name. - I don't think so, my name is... Oh shit you're right!

[@trevorbest]

You shouldn't name drop... Prince Philip told me that

[@grahamlive]

He got that advice from his wife. She said it to me the other day over tea and crumpets, during one of our regular luncheons.

[@failedsocialexperiment2382]

Osa·ma Bin La·den and I used to hang out together, he'd strangle me all of the time but it was all in good fun. Too bad the American troops got ahold of him, that's the last day I got strangled before being trapped in his basement.

[@e1123581321345589144]

don't listen to Prince Philip, Prince Rupert drops all the time.

[@misseli1]

I can't tell if you're talking about the British royal or the prince from Disney's Sleeping Beauty

[@Menasor1000]

Yes but Prince Edward whom is better has entire Island named after him so...

[@ziggy8253]

“You know that Name Explain guy? I know him (through KZbin).”

[@jodinha4225]

I’m so narcissistic I name drop my own name

[@Me-vy8lg]

That would be egotism, not narcissism.

[@Menasor1000]

​@dswarriors okay banner...

[@kordellcurl7559]

I don’t think I even heard about name dropping

[@dstinnettmusic]

It's a pretty well known term. Get ready to hear it everywhere, not because it is being said more but because you are aware of the phrase now.

[@wurttmapper2200]

I don't find it anoying at all

[@locacharliewong]

@@wurttmapper2200 I give you my word, you'll find them that they are idiot in one day.

[@bingbongjoel6581]

3:10 I noticed a mistake. I think your pyramid is upsidedown and needs to be inverted.

[@yaujj65]

Good one

[@Peterwhy]

*your

[@bastardochileno]

shut up you have anime pfp

[@bingbongjoel6581]

Juan Velasco Alarvado Somebody’s insecure.

[@Brooklyn-Manhattan]

Y'our *

[@thomasturner6980]

In my spare time i do love to write names on a peice of paper then drop them

[@mackycabangon8945]

Ahh, name-dropping. when you accidentally drop your name..

[@ModanoTheBest]

Don't cry over spilled letters. 😥

[@aeblink1332]

Macky Cabangon me

[@GrimFaceHunter]

This one guy dropped his name while showering in prison and couldn't pick it up. He then went on to build a submarine and live in it for the rest of his life.

[@TheFlyfly]

i drop names constantly in that case!

[@kurtmayer2041]

honestly, blackpool is a badass town name

[@Damo2690]

Have you been??!?

[@grahamlive]

@@Damo2690 I have. It's one of the greatest towns on the Fylde Coast. After Fleetwood.

[@alek3827]

I thought it's where Deadpool born..

[@sudocatsda1guy390]

Back in the old days, it was beneficial to make people think you knew an aristocrat or other people of note. What's namedropping today, was likely considered a scam back then. 1945-1950 origin fits well with birth of celebrity culture, when namedropping became just a means of rubbing on some of someones prestige

[@alex6027]

I honestly didn’t find the name dropping example at the start annoying. The sentence seemed a bit wordy, but besides that, I didn’t see anything wrong with it

[@wurttmapper2200]

I agree, he is a youtuber as well as them. It would make sense he knows them

[@iccolo]

i like how you covered cgp greys face

[@SWLinPHX]

I have a photo of him. Talked to him before he got famous. See, I just "name-dropped" (but in this case it is actually true).

[@KatzRool]

But what if you're ACTUALLY friends with a famous person, and it's relevant to the conversation?

[@al_fletcher]

KatzRool “Well, that’s alright then” (Barack Obama, 2019)

[@dstinnettmusic]

Your accent makes "the ridge" sound like "the rich", which would be a more accurate sponsorship disclosure lol

[@wesleysmith5737]

I just realized just how small of a creator you are, idk why but I thought you were a lot bigger, definitely going to make sure all my friends know who you are. Love the vids and have been watching for over a year! 🤘🏻

[@duchi882]

*Me and Albert Einstein met before* we were the best of friends _until I woke up_

[@encryptedcodename8109]

Not kidding, I had a dream that I was inventing a few things and Elon Musk wanted me to help out with one of his projects..

[@RonnieOP]

About that thing with the Romans In a way name-dropping was quite common at the time, as they would indicate the year they were talking about by saying who was the Consul that year

[@rjpolancov]

Hi, Patrick. I'm Spanish native speaker and I can think about a couple of traslations for name-dropping. I think you explained the concept really clear and I've learned a new expression in English which I think is really great. But, why the name-dropping action is called like that? I mean if I would be translating to Spanish that would sound like "I have a name in my hands and I let it go". I just learned English for work, school and because I like learning languages. I'm not a linguistics specialist, but the phrasal verbs in English are crazy and I'm really sure they might have a interesting background. In fact I have nice memories of an English teacher who used to tell me "the history of O.K." ... well, this video made me remember those nice memories :)

[@SWLinPHX]

English is a fascinating and universal language culled from so many other and older languages (and based much on Greek & Latin). To "drop" can also mean to casually "put something out there" or to "suggest" or "imply" or "insinuate".

[@DeRien8]

Your intro seemed totally casual, not actually annoying

[@thejimmydanly]

One of my favorite examples in fiction is how it's used in the Star Trek trope "rule of three," where a prominent in-universe character is compared to two other figures, typically one from our past and one from our present. There was an example a couple years ago, when they mentioned that a character in the show was compared to "the Wright Brothers (historical figure), Elon Musk (contemporary figure), and Zefram Cochrane (Star Trek character)." There's a variation of this in an episode of The Next Generation, where the character Data plays poker with simulations of Hawking, Einstein, and Newton. Of course, Hawking was alive at that point, and even played himself in the scene.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

Name-dropping occurs in music as well.

[@redj1101]

"Attention is currency in the marketplace of ideas" - Peter Coffin

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Saying you were hanging out in Blackpool, UK is way cooler than saying you were hanging out in Blackpool, British Columbia.

[@Damo2690]

Have you been to Blackpool??!?

[@heronimousbrapson863]

@@Damo2690 Blackpool, British Columbia, yes. If, when passing through, you blink at the wrong time, you'll miss it.

[@dm7626]

I can tell you’ve never been to Blackpool U.K. if you say that aha maybe both are just notoriously sucky then ?

[@heronimousbrapson863]

@@dm7626 Blackpool, British Columbia is almost non-existent.

[@CreativaArtly]

Oh gosh. I do this all the time now that I think about it. I always talk about how my fifth grade teacher was miss Mississippi 1998.

[@TheTwick]

I was talking to the queen, the other day. I said “Liz, I was writing another check to Patrick...Oh, yes! I’ve been a patron of him for quite some time. No, I’m not mentioned on the list at the end of his videos. That’s all right, I like being a ‘patron of the arts’. “

[@Reberi96]

thank u for censoring grey face spoilers 🙌

[@paint0772]

My friend name drops quite a lot, she knows a lot of game moderators from big games and quite a few KZbin celebrities and specifically name drops 2 people that she's barely talked to look better than other people

[@Nebby-vg6kl]

"I took a pill Ibiza to show Avicii I was cool"

[@ninogaggi]

I’m really guilty of place dropping. Every time I do it I cringe but I just can’t help myself

[@loldelol34w56436]

There's no equivalent expression in my mother tongue, never had heard of it

[@shibolinemress8913]

I used to work at a well-known hotel where many famous people of the time stayed. I stopped sharing stories about my hotel experience because people thought I was name-dropping when that wasn't my intention at all. Since then many decades have passed, and most younger people wouldn't even know who I was talking about anyway. Gosh I feel old! 😊

[@articus5961]

probably name-dropping started with people naming ancestor of some relevance, to increase their status in a given group, and later expanding to use acquaintances names

[@ITR]

tbh, my first thought was more along the lines of "wow, what a coincidence", rather than annoyance

[@ObjectManiacJennifer27]

Ah yes, people LOVE name-dropping The Beatles.

[@Gamper1]

Yes when talking yo my boss i always mention how i met john lennnon in 1982

[@rockdude007]

Gamper he died in 1980 lol

[@Gamper1]

RockyGamingYT yh lmao thats yhe joke

[@MB-rn4ul]

"...the horrendous world of networking. Seriously, networking is the worst." - So true.

[@patrickkerrigan6323]

Bouphe of the Yogscast was in Blackpool. It sounds like a great place to namedrop.

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

I'm from the Netherlands and it would be way cooler to tell I've been in Blackpool over the weekend then Amsterdam.

[@mehditabti2658]

Hey einstein is my brother want me to call him for you?

[@JazzPikmin]

nah im good

[@nope9885]

Cristalboy nah I’ll just get George Washington, who is my uncle, to call Benjamin Franklin, who’s my best friend, to make him figure out why people name drop. Also my dad is Alexander the Great.

[@psiiota6004]

Idea for video. What does bottom line mean in terms of "a companies bottom line"

[@GerryBolger]

I was actually talking about this with Daniel Day-Lewis once. We agreed that it was annoying but probably just a part of our psychology. Shania Twain was in full agreement but Rafa Nadal was on the fence about it. It's interesting nonetheless.

[@ntpgmr]

Actually, I would think Caesar would be the one name dropping Cicero, seeing how Cicero was only ever on decent terms with the guy, and Cicero was Consul before Caesar, not to mention he was also given "Final Act" powers to deal with threat to the Senate, and was even called "Father of the Country." Ambitious Caesar had just gotten made Pontifex Maximus during Cicero's year, and would only be Praetor next year.

[@1manApocalypse_CP]

I don't really see the problem with it for the most part, i didn't think it was annoying at all when said peoples names at the start of the video, just a neat story about people you met.

[@riflebusters1]

This video is ironically a mega name drop itself

[@rparl]

I was discussing this with Stephen Hawking and he said that Issac Asimov and Albert Einstein were unable to agree with him on this. But he didn't let it bother him. He'd rather ponder it with me.

[@Mammalmage]

I thought I was the only one who has that problem. So many jokes on Animaniacs went over my head.

[@sohopedeco]

Tahani from The Good Place, the ultimate name dropper

[@awesomelyshorticles]

I was really hoping for a name dropping montage from her to illustrate the point but alas, Name explain just isnt that cool.

[@NameExplain]

Connor Amlee I am very uncool.

[@dojokonojo]

Sometimes I name drop to sound like I get out more than I really do, because in actually I'm just one of those introverts who hate going out at all

[@bingbongjoel6581]

8:43 This seems kinda counter intuitive, _Michael!_

[@locacharliewong]

Nicholas Yang Wei-hsiung GBS, JP, the Secretary of the innovative and technology for HKSAR said that he has seen Steve Jobs before his famous.

[@oquendo0021]

Jeff: my name is Jeff Both guys: we know

[@steele_heart77]

So we've got Name Explain dropping an explaination of the dropping of names named "name-dropping." Also, why are you dressed like that?

[@enderplant]

You use the Beatles for the thumbnail, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney. I can't believe their music is now so underrated, I actually like it

[@moondust2365]

So does that mean one of the downsides of being famous is that people will call out your friends or relatives or acquaintances for name-dropping? Huh...

[@PathsUnwritten]

Jason DeRulo!

[@Mercure250]

7:46 I won't ask, ima just say it looks quite classy

[@frankwu4747]

Cicero namedropping Caesar is like Cory Booker name-dropping Mitch McConnel, or Donald Trump name-dropping Obama.

[@CAPace09]

But Caesar and Cicero had a personal friendship. Cicero's brother even served in the Gallic Wars

[@Flakjacket96]

I name-drop because with my family would always ask for details even in subjects they know nothing about,so I just built up a habit.

[@WaterShowsProd]

Cicero generally mentioned Julius Caesar in negative context. He was more interested in dropping him than his name. He even stated that while he wasn’t part of the conspiracy to murder him he would have liked to have been invited.

[@christhecustomcharacter1409]

0:52 Patrick's parent

[@poots605]

I'm a simple man. I see Beatles, I click. I just realized that was the point lmao

[@HamzaAmeer9]

Sorry but mentioning that you like a band or singer, will that also be call name dropping. You just want to find something common or tell that will also show your taste to other person.

[@drsaher8968]

Hey, there is a new aspect (kinda), when on a matrimonial website, a friend chatted with someone for the first time (from another city) and that man kept on mentioning how the Police high official and bid restaurant chain owners and other CIA or so officials in her city were close pals of this person. It was almost always someone in law enforcing agencies and powerful people which have nothing to do with 'his' field of work. It felt very odd and kinda threatening to her. This is an Associated-Power concept and subtle dont-mess-with-me mechanism. Why is that?

[@macsnafu]

I used to be able to say that I worked for IBM until IBM sold the division I worked in to a company that practically nobody knows about. It wasn't so much 'name-dropping' as it was simply easier to explain my job because everybody knows IBM. And people were asking me, so it wasn't unprompted. --Wait. Is this comment itself a case of name-dropping? ;-)

[@al_fletcher]

Cicero would probably only name-drop Caesar to flex on him.

[@justinoffutt8529]

Cicero name dropped Cleopatra a lot.

[@tomlesinski9385]

Didn't expect you to turn in Jordan Peterson during the video.

[@markdodd1152]

Especially . Yay ! Nice adjustment

[@GenuineEarlGrey]

Suggestion. Do you ever do sayings on Name Explain, Patrick? Some, like "at sixes and sevens", have a good story to them, M

[@dsatt57]

“Networking is the worst” YES

[@Wsnow22]

So this is basically Andy Bernard and everytime he mentions that he went to Cornell

[@kevinjordan9694]

When you do the patrons at the end can you make it. So that it has bigger text. Appearing for 3 secs then the next so that we can see the names more clearly

[@michaelb6600]

You should do a name explain on Memphis how theres one in the usa and on in Egypt

[@grandsome1]

What about name dropping using the six degrees of separation? Like I know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows the president.

[@shibolinemress8913]

Where do you put your coins in that wallet?

[@athanatiEllada]

FYROM stole Macedonia name

[@machiirose]

R.I.P Stan Lee 🙏🏾

[@Timmie1995]

I think the pigeon is the coolest dinosaur.

[@PathsUnwritten]

DJ Khalid!

[@FairyCRat]

That would be name-tagging.

[@ericacaa]

thats exactly what my singer friend madonna says hahahahha

[@ziggy8253]

Have you done names of colors?

[@navneethballal9427]

Pls explain the names of literary genres like gothic or of some other kind.

[@Ritz_Quackers]

The cool kids sit in the back of the class. 😎

[@FairyCRat]

More like the back of the bus.

[@Claro1993]

I always associate name-dropping with hip-hop and rap culture though.

[@jellyboy123]

Theres a cleaner in work who likes to name drop. He must spend days memorising councillors and anyone who works for local council, no joke when a builder comes into work he will literally name every building management officer working on the council. He go something like this " Aww!! do you know Brian Morgan building officer tell him hi from me if you see him. also is John greenway still working there making himself sound more important. i also like to add he knows none of them people.

[@jpelorat]

Nice mysterious background track... What was that?

[@hermask815]

The recipient has to understand the significance of the name dropped. In that regard known names may have a higher value than a more exclusive, more expensive brand. (I payed more than twice the price of X, but only specialists appreciate my choice, the others don't know anything about it.)

[@jacksonherrera8692]

Lmao my Catholic ass saw John Paul and I immediately thought Pope John Paul II

[@misseli1]

I misheard the intro as "this video is sponsored by the rich"

[@renatoe9648]

oh th ridge, distractedme heard the rich and expected a call to support tax breaks and trickle down economics lol

[@netsch20]

You look like a mix between Cody's Lab and LGR

[@JeremyWS]

People are weird, but being normal is overrated. I like being weird.

[@waltervanbrunchem2462]

Cicero and Caesar were good friends

[@erictaylor5462]

I am very good friends with Dr. Susan J. Cunningham.

[@grahamlive]

Wow. Can you get me his autograph?

[@erictaylor5462]

@@grahamlive I'll ask her. She's actually really nice. I've known her since 1992.

[@laurenbray8314]

I dont name drop but I do tell people stories about how I saw Stephen King a ton of times since I grew up in Maine lol. I think that's the only famous person I've ever seen in real life.To me telling people about meeting or seeing celebrities is different than name dropping. Name dropping is more like trying to make yourself look cool or important because you're friends with powerful famous people.

[@swfreak258]

What do I do with a wallet with no space for coins? :(

[@mbgal7758]

I’m sure name dropping goes back to the caves.

[@Koala1203]

0:31 CGP Grey body reveal!

[@gorjax2246]

Noticed you used all of the Beatles names

[@atunglan]

What is that backround music and why??

[@atunglan]

Nice video tho

[@Fae_van]

He says ridge like "rich"