# We are approaching peak "Peak" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938 "2014-10-20T18:25:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/1 "2014-10-20T18:25:18Z")
I am noticing the use of the phrase “Peak X” more. It started decades ago, I believe, as the concept of Peak Oil, when we would have max’d our usage and would start running out. But I have seen it used recently with a pop-culture, snarky twist to it: - an article about the TV Show Gotham and wondering if we have reached “Peak Batman” - an article on Grantland, about how going to see Lana Del Ray perform at a Hollywood graveyard was “Peak Los Angeles” given her full embrace of the superficial celebrity deaths and the mythology surrounding them. There have been others, but those two jumped out. Perhaps I am just noticing it more - anyone else seeing this trend…as it peaks? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/2 "2014-10-20T18:53:53Z")
I don’t know about “Peak,” per se. But we will [run out of "sustainability](http://xkcd.com/1007/)." ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/3 "2014-10-20T19:35:16Z")
Sounds like it might be peaking in show-biz speak. So pay attention to something else for awhile. Their attention span is so short the next fad will be arriving most likely some time around mid-week. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/4 "2014-10-20T22:31:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Sounds like it might be **peaking in show-biz speak**. So pay attention to something else for awhile. Their attention span is so short the next fad will be arriving most likely some time around mid-week. Peak speak? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/5 "2014-10-20T22:38:10Z")
Things got pretty bad during the Great Depression before things started getting better. Peak bleak. In the early 1970’s there was this fad of people (especially on college campuses (campi?), especially males) running around naked in public. Then that faded away. Peak streak. There was a spate of prowlers and peeping-toms in the news somewhere a few years ago. They never caught very many of them, but it quit happening. Peak sneak. Remember when the glam movie cliche was the Arabian nomadic chieftan, for whom all the girls swooned despite that he lived in a tent with his camels in the desert? Peak sheik. ETA: And the high-point of popularity for that cartoon Panther with the Henry Mancini music. Peak Pink. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/6 "2014-10-20T23:52:29Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > There have been others, but those two jumped out. Perhaps I am just noticing it more - anyone else seeing this trend…as it peaks? 😉 After a while, you’ll probably stop noticing it so much - and on that day, we will have reached peak ‘peak “Peak”’. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/7 "2014-10-21T01:43:07Z")
So what’s the “Mount Rushmore” of “Peaks”? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/8 "2014-10-21T02:25:32Z")
There’s that new restaurant chain, with a Hooters-like motif: Peak Twins. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/9 "2014-10-21T03:42:24Z")
The end of the month we will reach Peak a _Boo!_ ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-approaching-peak-peak/701938/10 "2014-10-21T05:05:19Z")
I think you’ve simply reached Peak Baader-Meinhof Syndrome