# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 296
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10395 "2023-08-30T21:59:17Z")
Very much “incredulous teenager” vibes with the new (non-linguistics!) thread on people named Dakota. “I don’t personally know anybody named Dakota therefore it can’t have ever been a popular name in the US” is such a succinct way to show off your know-it-all teenager cred that it almost couldn’t have been done better had he tried. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10396 "2023-08-30T22:45:38Z")
He’s only been here 8 years. So he was 6yo. I find it hard to believe he’s never met someone named Dakota. It may be where he lives. Down here they’re a dime a dozen. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10397 "2023-08-30T23:05:13Z")
I’ve never met anyone named Dakota. I’ve seen some celebrities with that name, but never met any in person. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10398 "2023-08-30T23:12:19Z")
Miller!! You’re old. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10399 "2023-08-30T23:27:17Z")
I’ve had a good dozen Dakotas in my classroom over the last few years, of both sexes. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10400 "2023-08-30T23:37:58Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Miller!! > You’re old. So am I. But I know some young people, and I also don’t know any Dakotas; though I’ve also heard, or seen, the name. However, I concluded quite a while ago that just about anything can be somebody’s name, and may even be a common one somewhere. I meet people all the time who have never heard of my name, after all; and it’s quite common in some places. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10401 "2023-08-30T23:41:53Z")
Well, I have to admit that you’re the first Thorny I’ve heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10402 "2023-08-31T00:13:19Z")
I’m willing to bet no one in the previous 50 years was named my 1st name. beck is my middle name. (Or a nick of it) Unless, like me their parent wanted to pull a prank on them. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10403 "2023-08-31T00:31:21Z")
Not to mention your last name Dawrek. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10404 "2023-08-31T02:57:26Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’ve never met anyone named Dakota. Neither have I, not that I can recall. I’m not young but my youngest daughter is 9. I volunteer at her school sometimes so I know her classmates. She also goes to a dance academy with well over a hundred young people. I can’t think of a single Dakota. Only famous people, like Dakota Fanning or Johnson. (I’ve never met them either.) ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10405 "2023-08-31T03:17:56Z")
There’s also Dakota Hudson, a pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10406 "2023-08-31T04:05:56Z")
Just to make sure I’m following, it’s suspected trolling to ask about people named Dakota in a dedicated thread, but it’s not trolling to list all the people we know named Dakota in the trolling thread? Only kidding! But it is kind of amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10407 "2023-08-31T04:59:00Z")
It’s thoroughly hi-jacked. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10408 "2023-08-31T05:40:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > They seem to believe they’re all being mistreated but, at least in the case of Tagalog, are unable to explain how. Holy crap, I had to drop out of that thread when they posted that utterly asinine pop culture “citation” about how the Filipino language is dying. It’s completely laughable to call a language “vulnerable” when it has millions of primary speakers and even more millions of secondary speakers. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10409 "2023-08-31T07:25:30Z")
You didn’t wonder about him when he declared Tagalog is a “bastardized version of Spanish”? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10410 "2023-08-31T08:17:51Z")
I don’t know any Dakotas but I know plenty of Carolinas. And a few Georgias. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10411 "2023-08-31T12:11:01Z")
That was my first time they impinged on my consciousness, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Now that I’m more familiar with their oeuvre, I’m less inclined to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10412 "2023-08-31T14:09:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I don’t know any Dakotas but I know plenty of Carolinas. And a few Georgias. I sometimes greet people with Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10413 "2023-08-31T14:21:34Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NztfOSyCCFM/hqdefault.jpg "Delaware - Perry Como.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztfOSyCCFM) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10414 "2023-08-31T14:47:47Z")
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